Clinical Lead - Cross Speciality Head and Neck Cancer and Skin Cancer

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

We are thrilled to be advertising for a Lead Nurse - collaborative cancer nurse specialist teams. This is an excellent opportunity to further develop your career in leadership, quality and support cancer nursing and our nurse specialist teams. We are looking for a dynamic, motivated senior leader to join our team. This is a secondment post initially and will be reviewed.

This post has become available with great opportunities for the right person, who has a passion and are keen to further develop the cancer nurse specialist teams, and cancer care in this specialist area. To support and provide a comprehensive service for patients within the specialist area of cancer care, and to lead the teams in a united, collaborative approach linking with and networking with wider colleagues.

Main duties of the job

Clinical aspects of the role. to provide direct patient care and holistic support in helping improve quality of life by educating the patient on the management and control of symptoms and offering support following diagnosis and following the patient pathway.

To be a resource for other health professionals.

To work with the specialist nurses accommodating flexibility to provide full-service cover, to always deliver appropriate care/support to both patients and clinicians across the service, within the directorate, with effective and inclusive leadership. Focus on quality, performance, impact and value.

To support the delivery of a high quality, safe and compassionate service, being a role model to others in all aspects of their work and consistently demonstrate South Tees NHS FT values of Caring, Respectful, Supportive, and Empowerment of our teams.

About us

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme, and the Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. This programme aims to:

Explore leadership within the NHS
Promote Trust Values and Behaviours
Develop your Leadership effectiveness and skills
Practitioner level in quality improvement, equipping you with the skills to champion, lead and complete quality improvement within your role

After you complete this four and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses dependent upon your role and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7.

Date posted

17 April 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£50,952 to £57,349 a year Per annum

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

328-HNO-5918809-LJ-C

Job locations

The James Cook University Hospital

Marton Road

Middlesbrough

TS4 3BW

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

A Masters level Degree or evidence of Study at Masters level and/or equivalent demonstrable experience.
Teaching certificate or willingness to undertake

Desirable

Leadership qualification

Experience

Essential

Post-registration experience, with experience working as a Clinical Nurse Specialist.

Desirable

Experience of working with patients across all care settings (acute, community and hospice)

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

A Masters level Degree or evidence of Study at Masters level and/or equivalent demonstrable experience.
Teaching certificate or willingness to undertake

Desirable

Leadership qualification

Experience

Essential

Post-registration experience, with experience working as a Clinical Nurse Specialist.

Desirable

Experience of working with patients across all care settings (acute, community and hospice)

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).