Job summary
This is a great opportunity to join a new innovative service within cancer care The Acute Oncology service is looking for enthusiastic and motivated permanent band 6 nurses.
If you are a compassionate skilled cancer nurse, a skilled emergency or medical nurse with a passion for working within cancer services with the motivation to develop your, someone who thrives in an ever changing environment, individuals that enjoy a fast paced care and are passionate about the commitment in helping the current team to shape the future. You will need to have skills in leadership, be forward thinking, innovative and delegative.
You will be joining a newly revised and evolving service, the service support 7 day working and provides front door assessments to patients who have side effects from their cancer and/or the treatments involved. this exciting opportunity will give you the skill in becoming a UKONs telephone triage nurse, where you will participate on the rota to triage patients over the phone and direct them onto appropriate pathways . Opportunities for continued learning and to be involved in the UKONs AOS forum.
If you have a passion for cancer care and would like a career in helping to lead an innovative service for our local population then this is the role for you
Main duties of the job
- The AOS Cancer nurse practitioner brings together disciplines from Cancer Emergency department, acute medicine, supportive and palliative care to provide a cohesive service for people presenting with oncological emergencies. Tobe an active and visual practitioner to provide timely advice and guidance within the Acute setting to support the management of patient with a new or known cancer diagnosis who present as an emergency.
- The Nurse practitioner will autonomously, or with senior nurse colleague/medical colleague, demonstrate highly developed specialist knowledge and skills in the diagnosis and management of patients.
- Strategic planning, education, research, and audit are key components of the role. The post holder will, with support and development exercise advanced clinical expertise, levels of judgement, discretion and decision making in clinical care.
This post will coordinate the acute oncology service and provide early input of specialist nursing care to oncology patients enabling:
- Efficient and focused care of patient with complications of Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT)
- NNS pathway,
- Key worker for CUP patients
- Early recognition, intervention and appropriate treatment of acute condition, admission avoidance, reduce length of stay
- Direct access to oncology input for patients with metastatic malignancy of unknown origin, supporting the use of appropriate investigations;
About us
The Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust are committed to personal and professional development of staff and services. The AOS is primarily based on the acute site, working across many boundaries and building on existing and new relationships.
We are committed to the improvement of patient care. The Cancer Clinical Nurse Practitioner role is recognised Nationally within Cancer and Palliative care nursing and medical workforce framework as key to providing focused innovative specialist care to patient with a life changing diagnosis.
The continued development of increasingly advanced nurse led services is key to facilitating the evolving and increasingly complex cancer and Long-term condition management pathway.
Why Work With Us
Job description
Job responsibilities
Communication and working relationships
- Demonstrate at an advanced level, communication skills which provide appropriate support, relevant information and education to facilitate decision making on all treatment options for patients and their family/carers
- To establish close liaison and communication with and between all disciplines involved in the care of patients and their families/carers in order to facilitate a coordinated service in the hospital and to ensure an effective discharge into the community.
- Support new patients, identifying their psychological, emotional, spiritual, financial and cultural needs in relation to their condition and proposed treatment pathway.
- To act as the patients, advocate when necessary and inform and educate them regarding their treatment options enabling patients to make informed choices, referring back to clinician where appropriate.
- The post holder has the freedom to act within broad professional policies, seeking guidance from others as necessary. He/she is accountable for his/her professional actions as they will not be directly supervised and will have broad local working procedures to operate within.
- To work collaboratively and autonomously with authority, using expert knowledge and skills to help develop and deliver services across organizational, professional and geographical boundaries.
Planning and organisation
- Reducing LOS ensuring discharge planning starts from the patients admission
- Supporting the review of policies/clinical guidelines
- Patient safety benchmarking
- Patient experience measure
- Participate in the development of the service and act as a change agent, where necessary leading staff and facilitating the change process whilst encouraging others to be innovative and adaptable in the approach to change
Analytical and judgement
- To be aware of own limitations and emotional effort needed and regularly attend clinical supervision
- Collect, collate, evaluate and report information, maintaining accurate patient records
- Ability to recognise and respond to signs of patient deterioration in a timely manner is pivotal in the AOS role for patient outcomes
Responsibility for patients and client care
- To make appropriate clinical decisions following assessment utilising specialist knowledge in this specialty, underpinned by theory and experience
- To act as a resource in providing evidence-based advice and information to promote the health and wellbeing of patients with a known cancer diagnosis and unknown primary
- Maintain own clinical development by keeping abreast of new treatments and technologies within emergency and unscheduled care
- To improve the quality of the patient experience by identifying and meeting the individual clinical needs of patients
- To promote an innovative and progressive attitude to the continual improvement of patient care through audit, research and evidence-based practice
- To act as a role model and highly competent specialist practitioner, providing leadership in developing staff and others, knowledge and skills of patient care within wards, departments and community setting
- To have a visible presence with key points of entry across the trust
- The post holder will support the coordination of the metastatic spinal cord compression coordinators and will actively participate in the rota for this element of service
- Support and promote an integrated approach to quality, seeking always to improve patient care and patient experience
- To be conversant with all Trust policies and procedures and ensure they are correctly implemented
- Work within the scope of professional practice and adhere with the nursing and midwifery council code of professional conduct ensuring extension of practice in line with the agreed local and national guidelines, protocols and competencies
Policy and service responsibility
- To provide expert support, direction and judgment in the collection of information towards annual peer review processes and service developments, working closely with other colleagues, in the review and analysis of the service
- Expand and develop the role to meet the changing needs of patients working within the parameters of the Code of professional conduct, Trust and NMC guidelines
- To develop evidence-based policies and procedures specifically required by the team
- Ensure that all inpatients with complications of Oncology SACT are reviewed by the AOS Oncology team within 24 hours of admission (or next working day)
- Promote the role of the acute oncology service and ensure referral processes and trigger alerts are in place to ensure appropriate timely referrals
Responsibility for finance, equipment and other resources
- Ensure the effective and efficient use of physical and financial resources; make recommendations regarding supplies and equipment
- Collect, collate and report activity data to key stakeholders, producing regular formal reports
- Actively manage cancer patient flow working with and advising the clinical site team
Responsibility for supervision, leadership and management
- To review own professional development in line with NMC guidelines on PREP
- To identify personal training and development needs
- To provide education and teaching to clinical staff and other colleagues on aspects of acute oncology to support the development of specialist skills and knowledge
- To participate in teaching and assessing in clinical practice, including mentoring of members of the cancer SACT team undertaking courses
- To identify, assess and meet the educational needs of the patient and their family, paying particular attention to the public and personal attitudes to cancer and how these relate to political, social, economic and ethical issues
- Undertake training courses to develop maintain and increase knowledge, skill and expertise whilst reflecting service and Trust aims
- To work collaboratively with the Cancer Support team, the SACT team and colleagues on education strategies to support cancer service development and promote practice development
Information technology and administrative duties
- Utilising IT systems maintain accurate records of all activity in a timely process
- Assist and as required lead in the audit and evaluation of the service reporting back to lead clinician/matron/managers within the care group
- Assist in the completion of national audit programmes and network agreed minimum data sets
Responsibility for research and development
- Lead and assist with development and implementation of clinical audits and research projects in own specialist area, ensuring the findings are disseminated and good practice is shared across the trust and beyond in accordance with trust governance and clinical guidelines including Peer review process
- Participate in local and national R&D that can influence and support AOS developments
Job description
Job responsibilities
Communication and working relationships
- Demonstrate at an advanced level, communication skills which provide appropriate support, relevant information and education to facilitate decision making on all treatment options for patients and their family/carers
- To establish close liaison and communication with and between all disciplines involved in the care of patients and their families/carers in order to facilitate a coordinated service in the hospital and to ensure an effective discharge into the community.
- Support new patients, identifying their psychological, emotional, spiritual, financial and cultural needs in relation to their condition and proposed treatment pathway.
- To act as the patients, advocate when necessary and inform and educate them regarding their treatment options enabling patients to make informed choices, referring back to clinician where appropriate.
- The post holder has the freedom to act within broad professional policies, seeking guidance from others as necessary. He/she is accountable for his/her professional actions as they will not be directly supervised and will have broad local working procedures to operate within.
- To work collaboratively and autonomously with authority, using expert knowledge and skills to help develop and deliver services across organizational, professional and geographical boundaries.
Planning and organisation
- Reducing LOS ensuring discharge planning starts from the patients admission
- Supporting the review of policies/clinical guidelines
- Patient safety benchmarking
- Patient experience measure
- Participate in the development of the service and act as a change agent, where necessary leading staff and facilitating the change process whilst encouraging others to be innovative and adaptable in the approach to change
Analytical and judgement
- To be aware of own limitations and emotional effort needed and regularly attend clinical supervision
- Collect, collate, evaluate and report information, maintaining accurate patient records
- Ability to recognise and respond to signs of patient deterioration in a timely manner is pivotal in the AOS role for patient outcomes
Responsibility for patients and client care
- To make appropriate clinical decisions following assessment utilising specialist knowledge in this specialty, underpinned by theory and experience
- To act as a resource in providing evidence-based advice and information to promote the health and wellbeing of patients with a known cancer diagnosis and unknown primary
- Maintain own clinical development by keeping abreast of new treatments and technologies within emergency and unscheduled care
- To improve the quality of the patient experience by identifying and meeting the individual clinical needs of patients
- To promote an innovative and progressive attitude to the continual improvement of patient care through audit, research and evidence-based practice
- To act as a role model and highly competent specialist practitioner, providing leadership in developing staff and others, knowledge and skills of patient care within wards, departments and community setting
- To have a visible presence with key points of entry across the trust
- The post holder will support the coordination of the metastatic spinal cord compression coordinators and will actively participate in the rota for this element of service
- Support and promote an integrated approach to quality, seeking always to improve patient care and patient experience
- To be conversant with all Trust policies and procedures and ensure they are correctly implemented
- Work within the scope of professional practice and adhere with the nursing and midwifery council code of professional conduct ensuring extension of practice in line with the agreed local and national guidelines, protocols and competencies
Policy and service responsibility
- To provide expert support, direction and judgment in the collection of information towards annual peer review processes and service developments, working closely with other colleagues, in the review and analysis of the service
- Expand and develop the role to meet the changing needs of patients working within the parameters of the Code of professional conduct, Trust and NMC guidelines
- To develop evidence-based policies and procedures specifically required by the team
- Ensure that all inpatients with complications of Oncology SACT are reviewed by the AOS Oncology team within 24 hours of admission (or next working day)
- Promote the role of the acute oncology service and ensure referral processes and trigger alerts are in place to ensure appropriate timely referrals
Responsibility for finance, equipment and other resources
- Ensure the effective and efficient use of physical and financial resources; make recommendations regarding supplies and equipment
- Collect, collate and report activity data to key stakeholders, producing regular formal reports
- Actively manage cancer patient flow working with and advising the clinical site team
Responsibility for supervision, leadership and management
- To review own professional development in line with NMC guidelines on PREP
- To identify personal training and development needs
- To provide education and teaching to clinical staff and other colleagues on aspects of acute oncology to support the development of specialist skills and knowledge
- To participate in teaching and assessing in clinical practice, including mentoring of members of the cancer SACT team undertaking courses
- To identify, assess and meet the educational needs of the patient and their family, paying particular attention to the public and personal attitudes to cancer and how these relate to political, social, economic and ethical issues
- Undertake training courses to develop maintain and increase knowledge, skill and expertise whilst reflecting service and Trust aims
- To work collaboratively with the Cancer Support team, the SACT team and colleagues on education strategies to support cancer service development and promote practice development
Information technology and administrative duties
- Utilising IT systems maintain accurate records of all activity in a timely process
- Assist and as required lead in the audit and evaluation of the service reporting back to lead clinician/matron/managers within the care group
- Assist in the completion of national audit programmes and network agreed minimum data sets
Responsibility for research and development
- Lead and assist with development and implementation of clinical audits and research projects in own specialist area, ensuring the findings are disseminated and good practice is shared across the trust and beyond in accordance with trust governance and clinical guidelines including Peer review process
- Participate in local and national R&D that can influence and support AOS developments
Person Specification
Role
Essential
- Cancer nurse experience
- SACT experience
- Education in relevant area
- Acute medical nursing
Desirable
- Acute Medical Nursing experience
- Evidence of advanced communication skills
- NMP qualification
- Experience of VAD and management of
- Autonomous practice & independent working
- SACT qualification
Person Specification
Role
Essential
- Cancer nurse experience
- SACT experience
- Education in relevant area
- Acute medical nursing
Desirable
- Acute Medical Nursing experience
- Evidence of advanced communication skills
- NMP qualification
- Experience of VAD and management of
- Autonomous practice & independent working
- SACT qualification
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
