Uro Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist

Job overview

6 Months Fixed Term/ Secondment Opportunity available

Opportunity also available for a Band 6 developmental role ( see attached  separate Band 6 JD)

We are recruiting for a Uro Oncology Clinical  Nurse Specialist who wishes to join #TeamIOWNHS. You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive quality and compassionate care and work with us to ensure the Trust continues its journey.

You will provide a comprehensive quality service that demonstrates highly specialised clinical knowledge and expertise for the management of patients with Uro-Oncology cancer and their carers/family. Making contact with patients from the time of initial diagnosis to provide practical, psychological and emotional support.

Main duties of the job

Your role will be one of the identified leads in the development of nursing practice in your own specialist area, working at an advanced level across the healthcare teams, also as a core member of the Uro-Oncology Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT).   You will be the identified key worker for patients with Uro-Oncology cancers and their families on the IOW and will co-ordinate island patients care throughout their cancer pathway.

The post holder will also act as a resource for all health care professionals caring for patients with Uro-Oncology cancers, and work in close collaboration with other cancer specialist nurses in mainland cancer centres, especially Southampton General Hospital (SUHT).

You will be required to work across departmental, directorate and Trust boundaries to support the delivery of a patient-centred seamless service.

Attached you will find the full Job Description, person specification document which provides more detail about the essential and desirable skills and experience needed for this role. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To provide expert communication with patients in ways which empower them to make informed choices about their health and healthcare, providing practical information on all aspects of treatment.

To work in collaboration with the lead clinician and the Multidisciplinary Team on the Isle of Wight and Mainland, to provide a high quality co-ordinated service between all disciplines. Encompassing a multi-disciplinary approach to care

To act as an expert resource in providing evidence based advice and information to promote the health and well-being of patients with Uro-Oncology cancers, and offer clinical expertise in treatments/therapies for patients that are unbiased. In order to optimise positive health outcomes and quality of life.

To provide professional innovation within the specialty, and contribute to the development of Uro-Oncology services throughout the Trust as a core member of the Multi Disciplinary Team.

To provide clinical nursing leadership and act as a specialist resource for nurses, doctors and others in the acute trust and community services within the specialty.

Lead the development and implementation of clinical audits and research projects in own specialist area, ensuring that the findings are disseminated and good practice is shared across the trust and beyond, in accordance with trust governance and clinical guidelines including Peer Review processes.

Other specific tasks may include:

Assess patients’ clinical condition over the telephone and manage symptoms of disease, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, or immunotherapy side effects, and provide advice and guidance and primary and secondary care MDT working to prevent admission.

To recognise symptoms of an oncological emergency such as Neutropenic sepsis, Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression, Hypercalcaemia, through telephone assessment of patient’s clinical condition, and expedite appropriate emergency services / admission response and actions.

Safely handle and administer high risk cytotoxic Intravesical Chemotherapy

Arranging blood transfusions / medication infusions / vital medications / treatment plans ,  diagnostics, or catheterisation management,

Administration of Degarelix injections (Hormone) through nurse led clinics, for inpatients and PRN in OPD clinics

Support patient in breaking bad news clinic and provide service details and CNS role function

Provide patient advise on different types of surgery and systematic anti-cancer therapy options available to them, discussing the risks, side effects and support available.

Support and advise patients to manage urinary incontinence and sexual dysfunction as a complication of their surgical treatment.