Paediatric Oncology & Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist

Job overview

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.

Job Title: Paediatric Oncology & Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist

Contract Type: Permanent

Main duties of the job

This is an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Paediatric Oncology and Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist, providing expert, compassionate and coordinated care to children and young people with brain and central nervous system tumours.

Working as a key member of the Paediatric Oncology multidisciplinary team, you will provide specialist nursing expertise throughout the patient pathway, from diagnosis and treatment through survivorship or palliative and end-of-life care. You will act as a key worker, providing expert clinical advice, symptom management, education, psychosocial support and care coordination across hospital, and regional services.

The role is central to delivering safe, high-quality, personalised care, improving patient and family experience and supporting continuity across the Wessex network. You will work closely with oncology, neurosurgery, radiotherapy, palliative care, community and shared-care teams.

The post holder will report to the Lead Nurse for Children’s Cancer and contribute to service development, education, governance and quality improvement.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The successful candidate will be responsible for providing specialist, evidence-based nursing care to children and young people with neuro-oncology and palliative care needs and will demonstrate:

- Significant post-registration experience within paediatric oncology, haematology, neuro-oncology or another relevant specialist paediatric setting, with evidence of advanced clinical knowledge and decision-making.

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to support children, young people and families through complex diagnoses, treatment, disease progression, palliative care and end-of-life decision-making.

- The ability to work autonomously while collaborating effectively across multidisciplinary, community and regional teams, coordinating complex care across organisational boundaries.

- Evidence of leadership, education, service development and quality improvement, with the ability to contribute to governance, pathway development and continued improvement of paediatric neuro-oncology and palliative care services.

The role requires flexibility to meet the needs of children and families across the pathway, including participation in the established specialist palliative care on-call arrangements where required.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.