Urology Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a well-established Urology Specialist Nursing team, to care for patients undergoing prostate, bladder, kidney, penile, testicular and retro-peritoneal sarcoma cancer surgical and medical oncology treatments at The Christie Hospital in Manchester.
The successful candidate will be an experienced urology/oncology/surgical nurse, highly motivated and driven to improve patient care and experience. You will be an excellent communicator and will have the opportunity to use your clinical and professional leadership skills to encourage and promote best outcomes for patients, their relatives and carers.
Excellent interpersonal skills are paramount for this post together with confidence to engage and work with a range of colleagues at all levels and from all professional groups.
To apply you need to be a dynamic, enthusiastic, motivated and pro-active individual. The successful applicant will have experience and knowledge of treatment pathways and specialist care for urology cancer patients and must be able to demonstrate sound leadership skills.
For informal enquires please contact Lead Urology Nurse Mandy Bell via email [email protected]
Main duties of the job
Provide specialist, expert Urological clinical knowledge and support to colleagues, patients and carers/relatives both within and outside the Trust.
Perform a comprehensive keyworker role for Urology cancer patients throughout their care pathway at The Christie Hospital.
Work closely with teams at referring centres and GMCA to ensure that patient pathways of care are streamlined.
Play an integral role in the operational and strategic development of specialist services for Christie Urology in-patients and out-patients.
Be a highly visible and approachable role model, ensuring that best practice is disseminated throughout the clinical areas.
Actively contribute to any relevant initiatives within the care group and provide support to senior colleagues.
To Provide clinical expertise for developing and enhancing Urology Surgical and Oncological treatment services.
Develop and run nurse led clinics and services, undertaking highly specialised technical and practical skills.
Use of advanced communication skills in a variety of settings to facilitate difficult conversations around treatment plans, progressive disease, advanced care planning for end of life care.
Use of Level 2 psychological skills to assess patients for psychological and/or emotional distress and initiate robust support and management plans, referring to other services as appropriate.
Working for our organisation
The Christie is one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country.
We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services.We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years.
We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
CLINICAL- Perform a comprehensive Key Worker role for Urology cancer patients during their care pathway at the Christie Hospital. Provide expert specialist advice to patients, relatives, carers and other health care professionals in relation to a Urological cancer diagnosis
- Develop and maintain advanced clinical skills in assessment and knowledge of diagnosis and treatment options for the patient.
- Liaise with other Clinical Nurse Specialists, Cancer Pathway Coordinators, other professionals (including those from referring units), to ensure effective transfer of information across different NHS organisations and a smooth pathway of care.
- Collect, collate, evaluate and report information, maintaining accurate patient records in line with clinical governance and risk management.
- Work independently, managing own case load of patients.
- Use advanced communication skills in a variety of settings. This will include discussions around patient care and treatment plans with patients, carers, relatives and members of the multi-disciplinary team.
- Provide emotional support to patients, their families and staff during difficult situations e.g. breaking bad news or following an unexpected event.
- Involve patients and carers in the planning and delivery of care and development of services to enhance the patient and carer experience.
- Develop and run nurse led clinics and undertake highly specialised technical and practical skills. This may include advanced health assessments and non-medical prescribing to ensure optimum patient management. N.B. Will be expected to deliver clinics both on Christie main site, in outreach clinics at peripheral Christie sites and in other NHS organisations and community-based practices.
- Apply evidence-based research to practice.
- Act always in accordance with the NMC code of conduct and guiding documents.
- Be an active member of the appropriate Urological disease site specific MDT. Utilising excellent communication skills, enabling maintenance of a high-quality service and ensuring timely management and resolution of unexpected events and situations.
- Provide specialist, expert clinical knowledge to clinical colleagues, patients and carers or relatives both within and outside the Trust.
- Play an integral role in the operational and strategic development of specialist services for both in-patients and out-patients
- Undertake clinical supervision of health care professional colleagues on an individual or group basis.
- Actively contribute to any relevant initiatives within the care group and provide support to senior colleagues
- To contribute positively to the leadership of nursing within the care group acting as an effective role model
- To work with and support managers and clinical staff to identify areas where changes in practice are required.
- Ensure effective and efficient use of physical and financial resources.
- Monitor health, safety and security of self and others and promote best practice in the clinical area.
- Participation in the development and implementation of policies, procedures and guidelines at local and network level.
- Identify learning needs and plan, implement and evaluate programmes of education to meet identified needs.
- To attend meetings and conferences as appropriate ensuring that you are fully conversant with current practices both within the 1. 3. Trust and within specialist urology oncology services locally and nationally.
- To publish and present relevant clinical practice, audit and service developments.
- Participate in the education of pre and post-registration health care professionals and medical staff.
- Ensure own compliance with regard to mandatory training, non-medical prescribing and revalidation requirements.
- Receive clinical supervision as part of own professional development.
- Maintain up to date skills, knowledge and awareness of professional issues.
- Participate in planned programmes of appraisal.
- Identify the need for and undertake research, clinical audit and benchmarking, in collaboration with the team to improve effectiveness of patient care.
- Disseminate research and audit findings through presentation to professional groups and publication.
- Contribute to the writing of protocols relevant to own clinical speciality
- To promote and facilitate evidence-based practice and clinical audit within the Trust, raising the profile and enhancing the contribution of Urological Nursing.
- To promote nursing research and evidenced based practice relevant to the speciality
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
Develop teaching and presentation skills and apply these principles in the clinical settingKeep up to date with current literature and research in the speciality.
Maintain your own personal and professional development, attending mandatory study sessions as required.
Undergo and actively participate in your own performance appraisals
Adhere to the NMC Code of Professional conduct working within and accepting responsibility for maintaining agreed levels of competence.
Contribute to the improvement of services and quality improvement
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- RGN
- Degree in Nursing/Health related
- Post registration qualification in specialist area
- Post registration teaching & assessing qualification
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Counselling certificate/diploma
- Masters level study
- Level 3 advanced communication skills training
- Level 2 Psychological Skills training
Experience
Essential criteria- Recent experience in either the speciality of oncology, surgery or urology at Band 6 or above
- Presentation and teaching experience
- Previous experience of working as a CNS
- Participation in service development and implementation of change
Skills
Essential criteria- Able to work autonomously.
- Leadership skills
- IT skills
- Highly developed communication skills
- Advanced clinical assessment skills
- Evidence of writing protocols/standards.
- Able to analyse data and provide written reports
- Evidence of effective team working across professional and organisational boundaries.
Knowledge
Essential criteria- Knowledge of professional and NHS issues, and policy relating to specialist area.
- Evidence based knowledge in relevant clinical specialty
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Able to demonstrate wide knowledge of current trends in nursing and application to practice.
The closing date for this post may be extended if there are insufficient applicants or brought forward if there is a high volume of applicants.
We want to ensure that everyone who works at the Christie or uses our services is welcomed, valued and treated with dignity and respect. The Christie values diversity and is committed to ensuring equal opportunities for all and fair representation across the organisation at all levels.In support of these commitments, we particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and other ethnic minority people and people with disabilities for this post. Appointment will be only on merit.
We are committed to creating a balanced and diverse workforce. As such we welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. Together we will foster inclusion and tackle inequity and health inequalities in cancer care.
As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy
All positions within the Christie are subject to the receipt of satisfactory written references, medical clearance and evidence of your Right to Work in the UK. Some roles will require a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check. Please note if you are successfully appointed to a post with this Trust, you will be required to pay for your own DBS Disclosure.
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If you have not heard from us within four weeks of the closing date, I regret that on this occasion your application will have been unsuccessful.
The Inter-Authority Transfer (IAT) process is a critical and beneficial component of ESR and will form part of the recruitment process. In the event that you are successful following interview your previous NHS employment data, if applicable will be transferred from your current / most recent employer.
Overseas candidates wishing to apply for this position and who would require immigration sponsorship, may wish to self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship for the post on the UKVI website.
You should be aware the Trust operates a No Smoking Policy and therefore employees are not permitted to smoke at work.