Job summary
- Main area
- Cancer Services
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 275-2503CNS-MAC-AO
- Employer
- Medway NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Medway Maritime Hospital
- Town
- Gillingham
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum/ pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/04/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 18/04/2025
Employer heading
Clinical Nurse Specialist - Macmillan Acute Oncology
Band 7
Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People?
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust, we are able to give our employees flexibility on where, when and the hours they work.
Our culture and values are what drives Medway NHS Foundation Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when you are completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
Job overview
Clinical Nurse Specialist - Macmillan Acute Oncology
Division: Cancer & Core Clinical Services
Care Group: Cancer and Access
Band: 7
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum/pro rata
Interview Date: Friday 18th April 2025
We are recruiting for an Acute Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide early input of specialist care to oncology patients presenting with oncological emergencies. This role will consist of working with emergency Acute Oncology Pathways and involve working with multiple disciplinary nursing medical, administration and operational teams.
The post holder will contribute to the delivery and evaluation of evidence-based patient care throughout the acute treatment pathway. They will have responsibilities for assessing the needs of the acutely unwell cancer patient, liaising with the oncology teams and the wider multidisciplinary teams across the Trust and KMCA to promote coordinated care.
The post holder will be expected to make clinical judgements on complex facts requiring interpretation and comparing options to ensure appropriate patient care and safety, thereby enabling faster, safer and better quality of care to patients with complications of Systemic Anticancer Treatment (SACT) or radiotherapy.
Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
Working for our organisation
Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of the Best of Care by the Best of People providing excellent care, every time?
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision is achieved for our patients.
As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy – Patient First. Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into our Patient First deployment. We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.
Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our BEST values underpin Patient First and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach:
B – Bold
E – Every person counts
S – Sharing and open
T - Together
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will provide direct, specialised care and advice to patients with cancer, using specialist nursing skills to assess each patient and ensuring that care and support to patients and families is sensitive to their needs for courtesy, dignity and privacy
Demonstrate specialist oncology knowledge and skills in particular with reference to acute presentation of malignancy; complications of disease or progression and complications of treatment, developing palliative care knowledge and skills in order to provide advice on pain and symptom management and work collaboratively with specialist palliative care team
Provides highly specialised advice to Oncology patients and other medical professionals concerning the care and treatment related to the specialism of Oncology
To have a visible presence within the key points of entry across the Trust
To ensure safe and high standards of care are maintained in accordance with hospital policies and procedures and National Cancer Standards
Provide specialist AOS education and training programmes to other healthcare professionals
Work collaboratively with other professionals to advise on the planning and organisation of patient’s needs, on-going care and discharge requirements, which require the formulation and adjustment of plans or strategies
Person specification
Values Based Question
Essential criteria
- How do you demonstrate respect and dignity
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of delivering patient advocacy
- Knowledge of palliative care -EOLC and Advanced Care Planning
- Experience of delivering quality improvement both personally/professionally and as a facilitator
- Extensive experience of working autonomously at an advanced level within the specialist oncology area delivering effective patient focused care
- Proven evidence of management / leadership skills and autonomous practice
- Previous experience of student supervision and clinical education at undergraduate level
- Experience of acute medical/emergency department nursing
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to clinically lead and influence staff
- Up to date knowledge of current clinical and professional issues within cancer/palliative and EOLC
- Demonstrate an understanding of the National agenda for Cancer Services
- Knowledge of current clinical and nursing research
- Holds the AOS Competence Passport
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Level 1 Registered Nurse on the NMC Register. To hold the appropriate level for the area of speciality
- Demonstratable knowledge of working at Masters level
- Post registration SACT Passport
- Advanced Clinical Practice Skills or equivalent
- Mentorship Course
Desirable criteria
- Leadership Course
- Non Medical Prescribing Course
- MSc (or working towards) in relevant field
Skills
Essential criteria
- Proven listening / counselling skills with the ability to manage complex situations and appropriately deliver sensitive and difficult outcomes
- Able to use skills of history taking and physical assessment to direct patient care
- Excellent verbal, written, interpersonal and communication skills
- Advanced clinical, managerial and leadership skills in specialty
- Ability to conduct and evaluate own projects successfully
- Ability to conduct and evaluate own projects successfully
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Louise Farrow
- Job title
- Macmillan Lead Cancer Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07342 071936
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