Non Site Specific Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist

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.

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.

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