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Lead Clinical Nurse Specialist Breast Cancer | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 15 March 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £50,952 - £57,349 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 19 April 2024 |
| Location: | Ipswich and Colchester, IP4 5PD |
| Company: | Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6158872/432-HR2397-23 |
Summary
Are you passionate about developing and improving patient services? Are you an experienced Breast Care Clinical Nurse Specialist looking for your next opportunity? Does collaboration and leading change excite you? If so, you could be the person we are looking for!
We have an exciting opportunity to lead our established nursing service in a job share arrangement with the current post holder. This is a senior nursing role as a Lead Clinical Nurse Specialist for Breast Cancer services. You will work cross site at our Colchester and Ipswich Hospitals, where Ipswich Hospital have a new Breast Unit. This post is part time 18.75 hours per week.
Combining your leadership skills and expert breast care knowledge, you will manage a team of breast care nurse specialists and continue to undertake clinical duties to ensure you are leading the service, maintaining best practice and supporting the development of core nursing skills within the team.
You will work to ensure the service continues to deliver high quality care and maintains the clinical standards expected within the service. You will drive the service forwards and support implementation of NHS and trust strategic aims within the service including person centred care
If you are innovative, passionate about breast care nursing and would like the opportunity to be involved in shaping the future of our service we would love to hear from you.
In this role you will line manage, lead and provide a supportive environment to the Breast Cancer care nursing team, ensuring seamless care is provided. You will also develop, implement and evaluate programmes of nursing care and competencies. You will demonstrate high quality care, supporting the MDT by inputting into audit, quality surveillance and complaints, implementing sustainable action plans where necessary.
As the Lead Clinical Nurse Specialist, part of your role will involve providing care, support and expert advice to patients who are diagnosed with Breast Cancer. This includes practicing autonomously and being self-directed within appropriately defined boundaries of practice. You will provide clinical support in the following areas: seroma drainage, lymphoedema management and breast examination.
Another part of the role will be participating in the development of Breast Cancer Services, contributing to business planning, income and expenditure monitoring and taking corrective actions supported by the General Manager. In conjunction with the General Manager you will also support the cancer waiting times process.
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 thatTime Mattersto 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.
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For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
This advert closes on Sunday 14 Apr 2024