Macmillan Clinical Nurse SpecialistBand 737.5 Hours per weekPermanent

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Registered Nurse to develop advanced nursing skills within a Macmillan supported personalised approach to cancer care. Working with the HPB Cancer multidisciplinary team you will play a key role in contributing to this high quality patient centred tertiary service including involvement and participation at weekly MDT meetings and outpatient clinics.

The successful candidate will have previous post registration clinical experience in the care of patients with Liver and HPB cancer. Applicants should possess excellent literacy, communication, organisational and leadership skills and should be prepared to work within a flexible working environment. Post graduate education, teaching and mentoring skills plus good IT skills are required.

Main duties of the job

As part of the Hepatobiliary Cancer Specialist Nursing Team you will be supported and given the opportunity to complete the advanced communication skills course and will develop skills to personalise care through undertaking Holistic Needs Assessments. You will be encouraged to develop an understanding of the psycho-social needs of those affected by Primary Liver cancer, including carers, developing an understanding and application of the Living with and Beyond Cancer strategy (2015).

Your role will adopt a strategic approach to both inpatient and outpatient care, resulting in interventions which aim to pre-empt potential problems in the clinical areas and in the community and minimize periods of crisis for patients, and their carers. A significant strength of the role will be supporting colleagues to cross professional boundaries in both primary and secondary care with the confidence and competence to work autonomously, utilising a wide degree of clinical assessment and clinical decision making skills.

For further information / informal visit please contact: Jane Williams ADN Gastroenterology on 07929529761 or HPB Cancer Team on 0151 529 4803.

About us

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospitalis the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility.Broadgreen Hospitalis home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation.Liverpool Women's Hospitalspecialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. TheRoyal Liverpool University Hospitalis the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification for detailed job description and main responsibilities.

Clinical Responsibilities

• Perform specialist assessment of patients nursing needs, plan, implement andevaluate care delivery using advanced clinical knowledge and clinical skills.
• Lead clinical care by managing a patient caseload providing expert assessment,planning and evaluation.
• Co-ordinate and manage nurse-led clinics (within Specialty).
• Contribute towards a multi-professional approach in the management of patientswithin the specialist area, especially in relation to ongoing care needs anddischarge arrangements.
• Establish and maintain effective communication with patients and carers /relatives.
• Support patients and their families and ensure that they receive the requiredinformation to enable them to self manage, lead or participate in their caredelivery.
• Recognise changes in patients condition that require the intervention of othersand refer on as appropriate.
• To support, assist and encourage the multi-disciplinary team in resolving patientproblems, by the provision of new and innovative models of case management.
• To lead the specialist nursing contribution to the service, in the delivery of highstandards of patient care.
• To lead the specialist nursing contribution to the service, work in partnership withlead clinicians, General Managers, Matron to ensure the delivery of highstandards of patient care.
• Work with the Matron to promote the development of nurses undertaking theCNO Ten Key Roles as considered appropriate e.g. Nurse Prescribing.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse / Midwife
• Post-basic specialist Qualification relevant to speciality
• Recognised Teaching Qualification
• First Degree

Desirable

• Research qualification
• Recordable specialist qualification
• Masters
• Independent Nurse Prescriber

Experience

Essential

• Demonstrable Post-Reg. experience
• Evidence of undertaking the relevant speciality successfully at Band 6
• Extensive clinical experience
• Evidence of the application of management / leadership skills and managing staff
• Involvement in audit

Desirable

• Experience as Specialist Sister
• Participation in research
• Management qualification

Knowledge

Essential

• In depth specialist knowledge

Skills

Essential

• Teaching / assessment skills
• Organisation and negotiation skills
• Effective communicator
• Leadership & motivation skills
• Evidence of audit and change management ability
• Computer literate
• Ability to motivate self and others
• Root Cause Analysis

Desirable

• Evidence of leading and facilitating change
• ECDL

Other

Essential

• Evidence of continued professional development
• Diplomatic
• Assertive and confident
• Personal and professional maturity
• Recognition of own limitations
• Demonstrates enthusiasm
• Ability to work both on own initiative and within a team
• Flexibility
• Able to travel between sites

Employer details

Employer name

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Aintree University Hospital

Longmoor Lane

Aintree, Liverpool

L9 7AL

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