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Job summary

Main area
Cancer Service
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Permanent: 15 hours per week
Hours
Part time - 15 hours per week (15 hours to be worked per week within office hours. Flexibility around exact woirking times.)
Job ref
249-6856695
Employer
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Great western Hospital
Town
Swindon
Salary
£37,338 - £44,962 Per Annum pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
06/01/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Non Site Specific Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist

NHS AfC: Band 6

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a unique organisation, serving as the sole integrated provider in the Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon, and Wiltshire system. Our scope extends beyond boundaries as we oversee adult community services in Swindon and provide acute care from the Great Western Hospital.

Our 5,500 staff have 1.2m patient contacts a year, with 13,000 operations carried out in our Theatres, around 4,000 babies born, and our emergency attendances are now well over 100,000 per year. Those numbers only tell part of our story about what an exciting time it is to join Great Western Hospitals.

We are cultivating a culture that fosters our ambitions, prioritising equality, diversion, inclusion, wellbeing, and leadership. We aim to create an environment where every member of our team can truly thrive.

The Trust is a Disability Confident Employer; all applicants who have a disability can opt to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme, which means that, providing they meet the minimum essential criteria for the post, they will be offered an interview. We are also proudly accredited as a Veteran Aware organisation and have signed The Armed Forces Covenant.

If we receive a high volume of applications, we may close adverts prior to the published closing date. Therefore, we advise you to complete and submit your application as soon as possible.

Job overview

Part time - 15 hours per week.

Working as part of the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) the Non-Site Specific (NSS) Oncology Specialist Nurse will work as an autonomous, professional clinical practitioner. They will be responsible for providing specialist clinical services with the support of the Band 7 Rarer Cancers Team Leader to patients referred on the NSS pathway as well as working within the Rarer Cancers Team.

The Non-Site-Specific Oncology Specialist Nurse will promote clinical excellence and provide specialised advice and support to patients who are referred into Great Western Hospital (GWH) with highly suspicious symptoms for a cancer and their carers throughout the treatment pathway. This must be in line with national trends and strategies, ensuring specialist practice is patient centred and evidence based.

Main duties of the job

  • Demonstrates exemplary nursing practice and the implementation of evidence-based care, the provision of a high standard of individualised patient care and experience, upholding the Trust Nursing Strategy which includes the 6Cs
  • Participate in and potentially lead meetings and committees both inside and outside of the Trust; produce timely, accurate and concise reports and papers
  • To assist in the local, regional and national development of the area of speciality, expressing and suggesting views as an innovator and expert practitioner.
  • Responsible for ensuring own knowledge of and compliance with appropriate NMC standards and revalidation and Trust professional guidelines and that these are applied to practice.
  • Ensure accurate and contemporaneous patient, staff and other records are maintained, submitted and stored meeting NMC requirements.

Working for our organisation

“Our STAR values – Service, Teamwork, Ambition and Respect – are a golden thread running through everything we do. These values serve as a guiding principle, driving us towards our vision of delivering great joined up services to our local community. Whether at home, in the community, or within the hospital, our goal is to empower individuals to lead independent and healthier lives.”

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • Working autonomously taking responsibility for a defined caseload of patients, which includes seeing/contacting patients who have only a radiological diagnosis of a tumour, thus ensuring this group of patients have a point of contact.
  • orking autonomously with the MDT to see/ contact patients who have had investigations but where there has been no evidence of a tumour, thus supporting this group of patients.
  • Triaging and assesses potentially highly complex patients, planning, implementing and reviewing care within the hospital environment, both in-patient and out-patient, community or other settings.
  • Promotes early discharge from hospital as appropriate.
  • Liaise or attend the relevant Cancer Multidisciplinary Teams (MDTs); to discuss the necessary investigations and support the patient pathway.
  • Work with the MDT coordinators and the NSS Navigator to ensure that Cancer Wait Targets remain a focus and a high priority across the Multidisciplinary Teams.
  • Use clinical-reasoning skills to undertake an in-depth assessment of the presenting problem. Interpret findings, develop working and differential diagnoses and formulate, communicate, implement and evaluate management plans.
  • Deliver personalised care for NSS cancer patients, focusing on holistic needs assessments, and health and wellbeing. Build up an understanding of the local and national services that support rarer cancer patients and signpost patients to these services.

Please see the attached job description for full information

Person specification

Education

Essential criteria
  • First level registration registered with NMC/ Degree qualification
  • Specialist academic pathway commenced at level 3 or equivalent qualifications pertinent to area of speciality
Desirable criteria
  • Management qualification
  • Advanced Communication Course
  • Teaching qualification

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Nursing experience at band 6
  • Demonstrable oncology experience
  • MDT experience.
  • Understanding and experience of clinical audit
  • Experience or understanding of multidisciplinary team working
Desirable criteria
  • Teaching/Mentoring experience

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrate initiative
  • Ability to work under pressure
  • Excellent communication skills
Desirable criteria
  • Ability to lead on service reports and documents
  • Supports service initiatives and development
  • Develops and implements policies

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardVeteran Awarehttps://www.gov.uk/government/publications/kickstart-scheme-employer-resources/kickstart-scheme-brand-guidelines

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Sarah Bye
Job title
Deputy Lead Cancer Nurse
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01793607118
Additional information

Natalie Jones

Rarer Cancers Team Leader

[email protected]

01793604339