Urology Cancer Nurse Specialist

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a band 6 Urology Specialist Nurse – Cancer Nurse Specialist to join an empowered, skilled urological nursing team that work across both acute hospital sites, Royal Stoke & County Hospital. This post will provide a holistic specialist service for both benign and cancer patients. The post holder will be an empowered and valued member of the multi-disciplinary team, acting as a key worker working across a range of protocol driven services underpinned by theory. The ability to apply specialist knowledge across a range of procedures is essential as analytical and judgemental skills will require interpreting acute and other conditions, making comparisons of a range of actions required to optimise patient outcomes and, where necessary, liaising with other healthcare professionals to provide the best possible specialist care for urological patients.

Main duties of the job

Communication & Relationship Skills

The post holder will be required to

• Fulfil the role of key worker
• Advanced communication skills
• Run protocol driven nurse led cancer and benign clinics
• Administer intravesical instillations
• Interpret clinical and sensitive patient information
• Utilise Urological clinical skills
• Teach and empower other health care professionals
• Request pertinent investigations that help inform diagnosis and  patient surveillance pathways
• Active member of urological cancer patient multi-disciplinary team
• Implement and contribute to the writing of  standard operational policies and attend governance meetings
• Remain responsible for producing and updating patient information
• Responsible for holistic needs assessment
• Respond to departmental on-going developments
• Work unsupervised but managed
• Remain responsible for self and delegated tasks
• Recognise when help and guidance is required
• Direct patient care
• Participate in research and clinical trials
• Instigate nursing audit / research
• Supportive of all Urological nursing roles
• Commit to educational programs required to fulfil succession planning departmental objectives

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Work within urology nurse led specialist teams, both hospital sites, in and out of hours within the acute hospital settings

• Run protocol driven urology nurse led services
• Work alongside on call urology multidisciplinary team when required
• Populate timely electronic record keeping/ E Discharge
• Administer intravesical treatments (Benign & Cancer)
• Interpret clinical and sensitive patient information
• Utilise urological clinical skills
• Teach and empower other health care professionals
• Request pertinent investigations that help inform diagnosis and patient surveillance pathways