Lung Cancer Nurse, Band 7

Job summary

The role of Lung Cancer Nurse Specialist is a great opportunity to develop your clinical and professional practice along with leadership and management experience. Excellent communication skills and self-awareness are required for your own and others well-being. The post holder will be an effective core member of the lung cancer Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) within Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, acting as an expert practitioner within the lung cancer team demonstrating highly developed specialist knowledge in the management of patients with thoracic cancers and their physical and emotional care. This will include supporting patients throughout their pathway from investigations through their treatments, oncology care pathways and post treatment including guiding through end-of-life care.

The successful candidate will have the ability to manage complex patients and their complex needs. This will ensure patients are able to make informed decisions about the treatments offered to them. You will be a highly skilled practitioner acting as a specialist resource to support the team. The post holder will also contribute to lung cancer clinics, day to day patient management and support changes to our services within the medicine division and wider developments within Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Main duties of the job

- Provide high quality patient care, delivery and maintaining standards in accordance with UK law, the NMC, and Trust guidelines, and able to meet the revalidation requirements

- Have relevant knowledge to be able to assist with the co-ordination of staff training to ensure a high professional standard in all aspects of patient care

- To effectively manage own time and that of junior staff and students in a busy environment

- Excellent organisational, line management, interpersonal and leadership skills

- Knowledge of clinical governance, policy, procedure and quality assurance frameworks

- The post holder is responsible for working within the Lung cancer team to provide expert evidence-based practice to meet the holistic needs of patients.

- They will have knowledge of thoracic cancer treatment pathways to advise and guide patients throughout the pathway.

- As part of the future plans for the lung cancer service, the post holder will autonomously run nurse led clinics as part of the clinical timetable

- The role will provide an interface between medical and nursing disciplines whilst developing and supporting nursing practice

- Communicate effectively with patients, carers, relatives and all members of the multidisciplinary team

About us

Gloucestershire Hospitals is one of the largest hospital trusts in England serving a diverse population of almost 620,000 people. We provide acute hospital services from two large district general hospitals, Cheltenham General Hospital and Gloucestershire Royal Hospital. Maternity Services are also provided at Stroud Maternity Hospital.

Our people are at the heart of what we do. Our workforce is almost 9,000 strong and our caring and dedicated staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care across a range of clinical areas. We also have exceptional teams of professional services staff underpinning our vision every step of the way.

We are committed to diversity, inclusion and equality of opportunity for everyone, valuing and celebrating differences and encouraging a workplace and culture where all can thrive. We endeavour to ensure each and every person working in our organisation feel respected and valued. Respecting and valuing differences will help to ensure that our policies and services reflect the needs and experiences of the people and community we serve.

In return, we offer the opportunity to work at a trust that is on a truly exciting path to make a real difference to the lives of our patients, their families and the wider community. We are also committed to training and developing you to be the best you can be and offer you a rewarding career, whatever your role.