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Job summary

Main area
Nursing and Midwifery
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Permanent: N/A
Hours
  • Full time
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week
Job ref
319-6627204SC
Employer
Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Wansbeck General Hospital
Town
Ashington
Salary
£37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
30/09/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust logo

Upper GI Nurse Specialist

NHS AfC: Band 6

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022).  Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you:

  • Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
  • Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
  • A range of flexible working opportunities
  • Generous annual leave and pension scheme
  • Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
  • Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
  • On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
  • Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy. 

If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.

Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes.  If you use AI, and it poses a risk  to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process. 

Job overview

The band 6 Clinical Nurse Specialist will work within a small but dynamic team caring for patients with potential and diagnosed UGI cancer. Streamlining their pathway and working closely with endoscopy departments, radiology, pathology, MDT coordinators, GP practices, district nursing team,, Macmillan services and tertiary care.

Main duties of the job

·      Participates in research and clinical audits in own specialist area.

·      To provide nursing care at an advanced level.

·      Provide and assess the need for symptomatic and psychological support to patients by maintaining close contact by use of telephone, outpatient and ward  visits.

·      To provide information and ongoing support to newly diagnosed cancer patients.

·      To participate in trust wide educational events and be available as a learning recourse.

·      To support in the delivery of the faster diagnosis/62 day pathway cancer target.

·      To support in the delivery of the 18 week RTT performance target.

Working for our organisation

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England?  Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

·      Provide specialist nursing with a defined case load for cancer/benign patients including the setting of standards of care, assessment of care needs and the development and implementation and evaluation of programmes of care.

·      To act as a link between the MDT and other primary and secondary care providers to provide a seamless pathway of care to patients across all Upper GI services.

·      Provide a nursing contribution to policy and clinical service development within the upper GI service.

·      Contribute to the Trust strategic agenda.

·      Act as a key point of contact to ensure timely care and treatment for all patients on a upper GI pathway.

·      Delivery of cancer review/benign outpatient clinics.

·      Support the Upper GI Consultant Surgeons in results clinics.

·      To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • 1st Level live NMC required Registered Nurse
  • Registered Mentor
  • PP126/127 or equivalent
  • D32/33
  • Degree supplemented by diploma level specialist training and experience or equivalent
  • Evidence of qualification to undertake the supervision, teaching and assessing of students (essential requirement for post, expectation this will be completed within an 18 month period)
Desirable criteria
  • Non Medical Prescribing Qualification

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardDisability confident employerCare quality commission - OutstandingStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Better Health at Work Award - Maintaining ExcellenceHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Dawn Elliot
Job title
Lead UGI CNDS/Trust \lead UGI Cancer
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01670 564171
Additional information

Work Mobile 07500 782 860

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