Acute Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the growing and dynamic Acute Oncology Service (AOS) within the East Suffolk & North Essex Foundation Trust to become an Acute Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist, part time 30 hours per week at Colchester Hospital.

Based within the Acute Oncology Service at Colchester Hospital you will focus on the delivery and management of the Trusts Acute Oncology Team (AOT) helping to support and develop the AOS service throughout the trust.

In this role you will provide specialist oncology advice and support for patients admitted with symptoms relating to cancer and cancer treatments, including the management of emergency presentations. You will also support and manage patients experiencing immunotherapy associated toxicities.

As a Clinical Nurse Specialist, you will exercise a high degree of professional autonomy and make critical judgements using expert knowledge and skills to provide the highest standard of holistic care. This will enable faster and exceptional care of patients with complications from treatment and/or cancer who present acutely unwell.

You will be required to work flexibly across a 7 day service. Due to the nature of this role, you will need experience within the acute oncology service.

Main duties of the job

• Provide early input of specialist care to oncology patients enabling:
  • Safer and better quality of care to patients with complications of chemotherapy, radiotherapy and immunotherapy (early recognition, better treatment, early discharge)
  • For patients with complications of cancer, rapid referral back to the specialist oncology and/or palliative care teams.
• Give advice and implement patient care in an area which requires specific clinical knowledge, skills and experience.
• Work alongside other clinical colleagues in oncology, palliative care, ED, acute medicine, radiology and pathology to ensure quality of care to the patients is maximised. This will include the development of clinical guidelines & education programmes.
• Undertake appropriate investigation of patients who might benefit from treatment for known cancers
• Management of the AOS patient caseload
• Co-ordinate the delivery of an AOS service.

About us

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are the largest NHS organisation in East Anglia, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

Find out about living and working here - www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkPu7HphU8A

Employer details

Employer name

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Colchester Hospital

Turner Road

Colchester

CO4 5JL

Employer's website

https://www.esneft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

---

Employer details

Employer name

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Colchester Hospital

Turner Road

Colchester

CO4 5JL

Employer's website

https://www.esneft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

---