Lung Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist

Job summary

We are recruiting for a Lung Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients..

The CNS will be motivated, proactive and an excellent communicator who works well within a team, whilst also autonomously managing their own case load.

You will be responsible for the day to day delivery of lung cancer care services within the trust as agreed with the Lead Nurse, in accordance of the Trust and national guidance.

You will work with patients being investigated and having a confirmed diagnosis of lung cancer or Mesothelioma , ensuring that national targets are meet in the delivery of the care.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values:Include,Respect, andImprove. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will liaise with all appropriate members of multi-disciplinary team and ensure a seamless service between acute and primary care services.

You will be effective at communicating sensitive, condition-related information to patients and relatives, requiring high levels of empathy and reassurance. This includes highly complex information that needs to be conveyed to non-clinical people (e.g family).

The post holder will ensure the provision of appropriate verbal and written patient information, thus empowering the patient to make informed decisions.

You will maintain your own knowledge, competence and skills through regular clinical supervision, appraisal, personal development plans and appropriate training programmes.

You will also be expected to work in partnership with other professional, health and social care organisations, trade union and voluntary sector organisations to embed these principles.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation, and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Employer details

Employer name

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Address

Lister Hospital

Coreys Mill Lane

Stevenage

SG14AB

Employer's website

https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Address

Lister Hospital

Coreys Mill Lane

Stevenage

SG14AB

Employer's website

https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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