Job summary
- Main area
- Lung
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Secondment: 12 months
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 153-SP03318
- Employer
- University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Poole Hospital
- Town
- Poole
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
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Lung Cancer Specialist Nurse
Band 7
As University Hospitals Dorset we are a three site acute trust with ‘university hospital’ status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.
We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.
In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with over seven miles of sandy beaches you’ll find inspirational opportunities to achieve your perfect work/life balance. With the New Forest and the Purbecks on our doorstep, we’re also less than three hours from London by road or train. The thriving towns of Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch give way to idyllic villages and unspoilt landscapes just minutes from our hospitals.
We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming and productive place to work.
We especially welcome applications from minority groups in the community who may be underrepresented in our workforce.
At UHD our active staff network groups are the Women's Network, Black Asian Minority Ethnic Group (BAME), Pride Network, European (EU), Pro Ability Staff Network, and the Armed Forces Support Group.
As a Trust we are proudly signed up to the Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant guaranteed interview schemes.
Job overview
A 12 month secondment opportunity has arisen within the Lung Cancer Nurse Specialist team for a Band 7 CNS.
You should possess excellent communication skills, be highly motivated and ideally have experience of lung cancer and/or cancer nursing. The successful applicant will need to be dynamic and able to work flexibly as part of the MDT; you will need to be resilient and able to influence in order to cope with the demands of the role and the service need.
The post holder will work towards providing specialist care advice and support to patients and their carers throughout their cancer care pathway, working as an integral member of the lung cancer team.
Base Location: Poole Hospital
Interview Date: TBC
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
Working for our organisation
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued team mates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
In some cases this means that a services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have at interview.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse with NMC
- Evidence at completion of degree or masters modules
- Relevant post registration specialist training at masters level equivalent.
Desirable criteria
- Clinical Leadership Training, Physical Examination and Non-Medical Prescribing or willingness to undertake.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of good experience working within the cancer care setting/ cancer nurse specialist role sites
- Experience in leading and managing staff
- Experience of being accountable for the delivery of a clinical/nursing service
Desirable criteria
- Ability to manage and deliver to deadlines and within resources.
- Ability to analyse complex problems and to develop practical and workable solutions to address them
Technical
Essential criteria
- Experience at of working with multidisciplinary groups and establishing relationships across the Trust and Cancer Partnerships/Alliances
- Ability to analyse complex information
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with good listening skills
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable knowledge of developments in Cancer Services and treatments at national and local levels
- In-depth knowledge of SACT/radiotherapy
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
- Elizabeth Jeffryes
- Job title
- Lung CNS
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Jo Valentine
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