Macmillan Metastatic Breast CNS Team Leader - NHS

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated senior nurse who is passionate about metastatic breast cancer to lead and develop the cross site Metastatic Breast Cancer CNS service. This is a permanent Band 8a post at 37.5 hours per week. This is a Macmillan badged post with access to support and educational funding.

The successful candidate should have a degree and be willing to develop their academic and clinical practice. They should have excellent communication skills verbally and written. They will play an active part in clinical practice, education, research/audit and the implementation of national guidelines and transformative services.

The successful applicant will work as part of a well-established dynamic multi-disciplinary Breast Cancer team who provide specialist advice, holistic care and support to patients, relatives and members of the health care teams. They will be required to lead, develop and evaluate the Metastatic Breast Cancer service to improve and maintain standards of patient care and promote a seamless service within a multi-disciplinary framework.

• The post holder will lead and manage the Metastatic Breast Cancer CNS Nursing Team cross-site on a daily basis, ensuring that the team provide an excellent service to the Trust through evidence based practice, education, policy and guideline development.
• The Post Holder will continually develop, implement and evaluate the Metastatic Breast Cancer Service to improve and maintain standards of patient care and promote a seamless service within a multi-professional framework
• Lead developments in practice consistent with the patient care priorities set nationally and locally.
• Development of new roles or service redesign will take place in line with best practice and evidence based care.
• Develop and manage nurse led clinics to streamline the metastatic breast cancer services to improve patient experience and develop effective pathways

• They will be easily identifiable to clients and users, provide strong, visible leadership and have the appropriate level of authority to provide support, advice and assistance required by patients, their families and carers.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Register Nurse with a Degree and current NMC registration
• Breast Cancer qualification
• SACT qualification
• Advanced Communications Skills training
• Advanced Physical Assessment module completion
• Non-medical prescribing module or willing to complete
• Leadership training
• Palliative Care qualification
• Mentor Prep/Teaching and Assessing qualification
• Evidence of recent continuous professional development

• Project Management qualification
• Business case writing and success experience
• Psychology Level 2 training

Experience

• Recent experience as a senior team or service manager/leader
• Audit experience
• Service Improvement experience
• Patient engagement and experience in surveying
• Evidence of working as a senior clinical leader
• Experience of working with metastatic breast cancer patients
• Ability to work independently

• Report writing skills and experience
• Awareness of the national cancer agenda
• Cancer clinical trials experience

Skills and Knowledge

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Knowledge of the Breast Cancer National priorities
• Knowledge of Governance and Risk Management
• Ability to work at pace and prioritise workload
• Ability to influence practice and introduce changes
• IT skills proficient in the use of IT systems

• Counselling skills
• Research and audit skills
• Budgetary Management knowledge
• Leadership of a project experience

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.