Band 7 Acute oncology /CUP CNS | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 28 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £51,488 - £57,802 per annum inclusive of HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 June 2024 |
| Location: | London, NW3 2QG |
| Company: | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6276854/391-RFL-6276854 |
Summary
The post will incorporate the Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) role dimensions of expert clinical practice, education, leadership, management and research. The Acute Oncology Service provides expert advice and management for patients who have beenadmitted to hospital as a consequence of their cancer or cancer treatment.
· Support the Macmillan Lead Acute Oncology Nurse to deliver and evaluate the service delivery model
· Support team working and collaboration within the Acute Oncology team and the wider team across the Royal Free and Barnet hospital.
· Provide Acute Oncology CNS support to Multidisciplinary teams across the Royal Free and Barnet hospitals
· Deliver an Acute Oncology service across both Royal Free, and the Barnet hospital sites, when required.
· Liaise with all key members of the multidisciplinary team to advise and support colleagues in the delivery of specialised patient care within the remit of Acute Oncology
· Act as the key worker for the suspected CUP patient’s and coordinate their investigations and information needs to ensure a smooth pathway, remaining as their CNS throughout the disease trajectory.
· Support patients in the CUP oncology clinic, and work alongside the lead CUP Oncology consultant and the medical oncology team
· Ensure that Confirmed CUP patients have a holistic needs assessment
· Develop and provide CUP patient nurse led support clinics to ensure proactive support
· Act as the Malignant spinal cord compression coordinator and support teams to ensure that patients with suspected MSCC and confirmed MSCC are cared for as per National NICE guidance and in line with the local operational policy.
Royal Free World Class Values
The post holder will offer World Class Care to service users, staff, colleagues, clients and patients alike so that everyone at the Royal Free can feel:
· all of the time ·Confident because we are clearly
· and cared for · that they are always in safe hands
JOB SUMMARY:
The post will incorporate the Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) role dimensions of expert clinical practice, education, leadership, management and research. The Acute Oncology Service provides expert advice and management for patients who have beenadmitted to hospital as a consequence of their cancer or cancer treatment.
The Clinical Nurse Specialist will be required to:
· Support the Macmillan Lead Acute Oncology Nurse to deliver and evaluate the service delivery model
· Support team working and collaboration within the Acute Oncology team and the wider team across the Royal Free and Barnet hospital.
· Provide Acute Oncology CNS support to Multidisciplinary teams across the Royal Free and Barnet hospitals
· Deliver an Acute Oncology service across both Royal Free, and the Barnet hospital sites, when required.
· Liaise with all key members of the multidisciplinary team to advise and support colleagues in the delivery of specialised patient care within the remit of Acute Oncology
· Work autonomously to deliver specialist clinical care appropriate to the needs of the patient group and based on principles that are research based and which enhance the quality of patient care.
· Support the development of an acute Oncology assessment service at the Royal Free site.
· Work within sphere of confidence, and seek support and education to extend the band 7 CNS role with additional skills in Advanced Clinical Assessment
· Support ED to ensure that patient with suspected neutropenia have antibiotics within the door to needle time and audit this on a regular basis
· Review and assess patients daily who are admitted to inpatient wards
· Contribute to the facilitation of the planning, delivery, and evaluation of care pathways for a designated group of patients.
· Carry the acute Oncology emergency phone, answer and triage patient calls and advise accordingly, communicating with the patient’s oncology team.
· Ensure that patients that have called the Oncology Helpline out of hours are called back and followed up accordingly.
· Monitor the quality of telephone triage and provide education and training.
· Contribute to training and education within specialist area to multidisciplinary groups.
· Act as a visible role model and specialist practitioner.
· Act as the key worker for the suspected CUP patient’s and coordinate their investigations and information needs to ensure a smooth pathway, remaining as their CNS throughout the disease trajectory.
· Support patients in the CUP oncology clinic, and work alongside the lead CUP Oncology consultant and the medical oncology team
· Ensure that Confirmed CUP patients have a holistic needs assessment
· Respond to National Cancer patient survey and adapt the service accordingly to ensure that CUP patients feel supported
· Develop and provide CUP patient nurse led support clinics to ensure proactive support
· Act as the Malignant spinal cord compression coordinator and support teams to ensure that patients with suspected MSCC and confirmed MSCC are cared for as per National NICE guidance and in line with the local operational policy.
· Lead and facilitate audit in line with national Acute Oncology requirements.
· Ensure the quality of the Acute Oncology service, CUP service and MSCC service through the application of audit and research evidence-based practice
· Promote an innovative and progressive attitude to the continual improvement of patient care through reviewing the evidence base and embedding this in practice through engagement in research activities.
This advert closes on Tuesday 11 Jun 2024