Thoracic Oncology Lead Nurse

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a forward-thinking, enthusiastic and dynamic senior nurse to join our well-established Thoracic Oncology team at Royal Papworth Hospital, a tertiary referral centre for Lung cancer.

The Lead Nurse will provide clinical nurse leadership to co-ordinate the delivery of a comprehensive oncology service working collaboratively with other members of the team.

The Lead Nurse will support the Thoracic Oncology team to further build their clinical capability and confidence. We are really interested, not just in your clinical excellence, but also your ability to be a visible, optimistic, and compassionate leader who will develop staff by understanding their needs and aspirations, bringing your ideas, and actively contributing to further improve collaborative working across the clinical areas.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work as a co-lead for the Oncology Service with the Clinical Director and Operational Lead, supporting the development of clinical strategy for Oncology Care to enable the team to deliver timely, clinically effective patient care that meets national standards.

If you believe that you have the relevant skills, experience, and values we are seeking, we look forward to receiving your application.

Royal Papworth Hospital is proud to employ a diverse workforce who is encouraged to use their individuality to provide exceptional and personalised patient care. We believe that our strength as an organisation relies on our ability to foster an environment which encourages using our differences as a strength.

Job responsibilities

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

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