About this role
Job summary
Internal Isle of Wight NHS Trust Applicants Only
We are recruiting for a Deputy Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist who wishes to join #TeamIOWNHS. You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive quality and compassionate care and work with us to ensure the Trust continues its journey.
This is an exciting opportunity for an advanced practitioner to take on this associate specialist nursing role working as a key member within the Cancer Multidisciplinary Team(s). The post requires vision, innovation and the ability to work across professional boundaries, underpinned by a real desire to provide the highest standards of patient care.
This post will work in collaboration with, and autonomously, as part of the Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist Team to help develop and deliver acute services across organisational, professional and geographical boundaries. The post will involve working with the Cancer CNS(s), covering for the CNS team in times of annual leave and sickness. This role will work closely with key areas of the Trust, forging close working relationships with the Trust interventional consultants, visiting consultants from the Cancer Centre's, the Medical and Cancer Teams and the Specialist Palliative Care team.
Main duties of the job
You will be supporting the patient throughout the whole of their cancer pathway starting at the breaking bad news clinic through to living with and beyond cancer. As the main duties of the role you will provide:
- Provide personalised care through a Holistic Needs Assessment and development of a Personalised Care and Support Plan including vital patient information information, signposting, and psychological support to cancer patients about their disease, treatments, and other holistic impacts e.g. financial, psychosocial, lifestyle change, smoking cessation advice.
- Essential support and information regarding surgical and Systemic Anti Cancer Treatment plans,
- Assessment of the patients clinical condition to determine if complications from disease or treatment requires medical or nursing interventions, including expediting admissions for oncological emergencies.
- Critical nursing interventions such as arranging blood transfusions, vital medications, diagnosticsand supporting patients with tumour specific specialist nursing care interventions such as wounds care, drain management and supporting patients having biopsies.
- Liaison with primary and secondary care MDT's and tertiary centres where the patient is under shared care.
- Support to multiple specialities where you will have the opportunity to learn the generic transferrable skills required, and tumour specific skills
About us
Our 2024-2029 strategy Working Together, Improving Together sets out to ensure that we continue to be a provider of excellent and compassionate care. As part of this strategy, we want our staff to feel proud to work for our organisation. Over the next 5 years, we will prioritise and integrate our CARE values into our culture. We are committed to attracting staff who share our values and behaviours while addressing those who do not. Only by making 'Our NHS People Promise' a reality, will Isle of Wight NHS Trust become the best place to work.
We are part of one team that brings out the very best in each other. We aim to create an environment that promotes service improvement and innovation by encouraging staff to innovate care as close to our patients as possible. We firmly believe in the power of acknowledging and learning from our mistakes while taking the time to celebrate our successes. This culture of continuous improvement and recognition is what sets us apart. Additionally, we plan to grow our own workforce through training, education, and innovation.
We are dedicated to developing workforce plans and systems that are suitable for the future. We will revolutionise how we engage with and listen to our people, and we will support their learning, education, and development to deliver the highest standards of care, both now and in the future.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Do you have skills in cancer care and are looking to progress? Are you interested in changing your nursing focus to support patients with cancer, and looking for a development opportunity? If so we are looking for you!
You must be an experienced registered nurse who possess a high level of up-to-date relevant clinical knowledge and experience in caring for cancer patients, and is passionate about delivering excellent person centred care . You must be highly motivated with strong leadership and excellent communication skills and have evidence of ongoing continuous professional development.
Working with the Cancer Management Team, Cancer Multidisciplinary Teams and Clinical Nurse Specialists this post will be responsible for the implementation and assessment of the service against the NHSI quality measures.
Attached you will find the person specification document which provides more detail about the essential and desirable skills and experience needed for this role. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.
For an overview of the main duties of the role please see the 'Job Description and Main Responsibilities' section below. To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail please read the full job description document attached.
We are committed to endorsing inclusion, diversity and multiculturalism throughout out services and as such, our procedures and policies ensure that applicants are always treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.
For further information about the role or an informal discussion please contact Anne Snow ([email protected]) or Claire Sydenham ([email protected])
Person Specification
Physical Skills
Essential
- Computer literate and adequate IT skills.
- Working at senior level, ability to prioritise and manage own time and caseload.
- Able to work autonomously and lead others at an advanced level, aware of own limitations and seeks out appropriate advice and support.
- To work effectively in a team or alone and can also support, educate and motivate others
Aptitudes
Essential
- Uses initiative and able to manage difficult and sensitive situations
- Demonstrates advanced leadership decisions making skills
- Can prioritise and coordinate own work and that of junior staff
- Can effectively prioritise, coordinate and lead own work and that of others
- Excellent time management skills
- Ability to lead and work within a multi-disciplinary team(s)
- Self aware to deal with emotional impact of role
Abilities
Essential
- Expert in specialist area, competent at nursing care and life support to BLS standard
- Ability to act on own professional actions and make informed and accurate decisions.
- Able to maintain effectiveness and calm under pressure
- Able to critically analyse and offer innovative and creative ideas to improve patient care/working practices
Communication Skills
Essential
- Demonstrate expert verbal and non verbal communication skills and be able to impart sensitive, complex and significant news to patients and carers effectively, and to educate others in this area.
- Excellent communicator in multi disciplinary forums and multi-professional meetings and events
Qualifications and role specific knowledge
Essential
- Registered Nurse with live NMC registration
- Cancer care/ training/knowledge.
- To be in the process of completing a degree or already hold a relevant degree
- Formal qualification or through relevant cancer or counselling experience
- Evidence of continuing professional development and training.
- Advanced knowledge and a clear understanding of local and national cancer standards, policies and guidance.
- To demonstrate a genuine interest in cancer care and knowledge of this speciality, working at an advanced level clinically and managerially
- Competent in dealing with breaking of significant news to patients and relatives. (see below Communication skills training)
- Accountable for own professional actions underpinned by theory and experience.
Desirable
- Qualification in management, leadership.
- Counselling certificate
- Advanced communication skills training/ qualification
- To have completed relevant degree or Level 3 study and working towards masters level qualifications
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Isle of Wight NHS Trust
Address
St Marys Hospital
Parkhurst Road
Newport, Isle of Wight
PO30 5TG
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.iow.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)