Immuno-Oncology Lead Clinical Nurse Specialist

Job summary

The principal role of the post holder is to work within a high-quality specialist service to meet the needs of patients receiving immunotherapy treatments.

This will involve continuously developing patient pathways for assessing, implementing, and managing care for this patient group.

The post holder will provide specialist knowledge and information resources for patients, their carers, and colleagues within the multidisciplinary team. The team will also support the physical, emotional, psychological, social, and spiritual needs of patients receiving immunotherapy as part of their cancer treatment.

The role will incorporate assessing staff educational needs and formulating and delivering education programmes to multidisciplinary post-holders. The post-holder will inform of service development needs and initiate and implement service development and delivery.

The role will provide a key link enhancing communication and continuity of care between teams and will foster good working relationships with all the clinical teams involved in the care of this group of patients.

This role is either a fixed term or a secondment if current managers approve.

Main duties of the job

• To participate in a patient-timed pathway within a specialist care programme.

o To provide a specialist resource for advice and information on immunotherapy for patients, families and staff, underpinned by a sound theoretical knowledge base.

o Provide a holistic assessment of the patient with cancer and their families using clinical judgement, specialist knowledge and excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

o Assessing the needs of individual patients and considering different options to provide a holistic, complex care package.

o To work within a multi-disciplinary approach to managing patients on immunotherapy who require specialist intervention.

• To play a leading role in the service developments within the multi-disciplinary team.

o To develop and maintain agreed clinical standards of care for patients receiving immunotherapy..

o To coordinate the auditing of care to provide a high-quality, needs-led, patient-focused service.

o To work within the SACT and Acute Oncology service and with clinical specialist teams to develop effective two way communication pathways.

o Coordinate the patient coordination betweenHumber Health Partnership sites and any external tertiary cancer centre to provide a seamless service.

About us

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.