FIXED TERM - Clinical Nurse Specialist – Head & Neck Skin Cancer - B7

Job summary

• Be the Clinical Specialist for Head and Neck Skin Cancer within the Trust, co-ordinating the Trust wide service development and evaluation within this speciality.
• To provide support and guidance to inpatient and outpatients in order to ensure high quality care and best practice.
• Provision of day-to-day management of the Therapy team ensuring appropriate levels of expert supervision.
• To support the team in deliver an outstanding service with high quality, safe, personalised, cost effective, patient focused service, with effective demand management systems which are responsive to the changing local need utilising technological options to maximise efficiency and safety.
• Maintain a complex clinical caseload, with clinical activity accounting for between 50-60% of working hours.

Main duties of the job

Take responsibility for the delivery and evaluation of specialist care for patients undergoing treatment for Head & Neck skin cancer.

Develop, and evaluate policies and procedures for Trust wide service development.

Develop strategies and policies for local service development.

Audit service and evaluate outcomes to improve service development.

Determine the effective use of resources implementing new initiatives where possible to run a cost effective service

Continually monitor own performance in the provision of care ensuring professional standards are met at all times

Establish clear referral patterns, communicating and co-operating with all departments, wards and relevant professionals

Develop strategies to ensure that the Head & Neck skin cancer service benefits all service users within agreed resources

Leadership

Lead, direct, support and develop the Head & Neck skin cancer service across Lincolnshire.

Develop strategies to motivate the Head & Neck skin cancer multi-professional team

Contribute to the multidisciplinary team decision making process within the Head & Neck skin cancer service

Participate in the investigation and resolution of complaints

About us

Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £643 million (20/21) and we employ nearly 8,500 people.

Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement - "Outstanding Care Personally Delivered" - stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.

We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.

Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from 'Requires Improvement' to 'Good'. Our rating for caring remained as 'Good'.

This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.