Children’s Oncology Outreach Nurse
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustAlready thinking ahead to interview?
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Job overview
Are you a compassionate, skilled nurse with a passion for supporting children and young people living with cancer?
We are looking for a dedicated Children's Oncology Outreach Nurse with excellent communication skills to join our specialist GWH team, providing treatment, monitoring and high-quality care and support to children, young people, and their families throughout their cancer journey — from hospital to homes, schools, and local communities.
This is a 22.5 hour position working Monday, Tuesday and Thursday with a degree of flexibility to cover service need.
If you are keen to deliver holistic care to children and young people with cancer, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work alongside and support the Lead Children’s Oncology Outreach Nurse as part of the wider multi-disciplinary team to provide an effective and supportive service to children and young people with cancer, their families and carers, in both hospital and community settings.
They will act as a key worker providing clinical guidance and expert knowledge in assessing, implementing and evaluating the needs of this patient group. They will provide specialist clinical skills, teaching, education, psychosocial support and leadership to enable families, carers and other professionals, in all settings, to manage the child’s needs.
They will provide the support required to the Children’s Unit in order for high quality care to be delivered to children with cancer following local, regional and national guidelines.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description.This job description is not intended to be exhaustive and it is likely that duties may be altered from time to time in the light of changing circumstances, in discussion with the post holder. This role profile is intended to provide a broad outline of the main responsibilities only. The post holder will need to be flexible in developing the role with initial and on-going discussions with the designated manager.