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Acute Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist

Posting date:	02 October 2024
Salary:	£54,320.00 to £60,981.00 per year
Additional salary information:	£54320.00 - £60981.00 a year
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	27 October 2024
Location:	London, SE5 9RS
Company:	NHS Jobs
Job type:	Contract
Job reference:	C9213-24-1039

Summary

Clinical Practice Fully comply with the trust Cancer CNS Standing Operational Policy; AOS SOP and CUP SOP To assist in the delivery of an expert specialist nursing service for people with specialist needs To provide specialist nursing advice and support to patients, their families and other healthcare professionals following diagnosis and through treatment and where applicable onward referral for end of life care. To ensure continuity of a high standard of evidence based nursing care, assessing health, health related and holistic needs of patients, their families and other carers by identifying and initiating appropriate steps for effective care. This can include: Managing a patient caseload Ordering diagnostic tests and being able to interpret results and take appropriate actions Making and receiving referrals Develop practice to be able to deliver nurse led clinics Support the team and organisation in delivering innovative services to support patient access to the team and early diagnoses Assessing and meeting patients on going care, health and well-being needs and develop a care plan and action referrals as a result Ensuring clear documentation in the patients records To be actively involved in in-patient care, liaising with ward staff to ensure high quality nursing care Attend A&E for assessment of patients with potential AOS/CUP diagnoses and to offer key worker point of contact to oversee their care To attend out-patients, ensuring nurse consultation with all newly diagnosed patients Ensure all patients receive appropriate follow-up and that relevant information is available to enable patients to make an informed choice about their treatment and care Take responsibility for delivery of Recovery Package initiatives and accurate maintenance and submission of the data associated with delivery of Quality Matrix To attend MDT meetings for Upper GI, designated as a CUP MDT and coordinate with MDT coordinator or other wider MDMs in accordance with national standards, increasing visibility of a patient to the cancer team. To attend Specialist MDM at GSTT for CUP once a week face to face or video link, to develop understanding of pathway of care and establish good working practices To accept responsibility as the named key worker, ensuring clear documentation in the patients notes and consistency of delivery of ongoing needs assessment To follow-up patients as appropriate and ensure all relevant information is available to enable patients to make an informed choice about their treatment To deliver a seamless service through the development of enhanced Multidisciplinary team processes and communication To work collaboratively with UGI MDM where CUP are discussed and AOS services as well as other MDTs at Denmark Hill or Princess Royal Hospital site and with teams at GSTT To participate in the identification and development of clinical protocols and strategies to enhance both the continuity and standard of specialist care whilst ensuring equity of access to the service To participate in the process of operational policies and review annually in accordance with national standards Review and update clinical information offered to patients every two years To ensure all care is given in accordance with agreed protocols Provide support and education to patients and their families To regularly review those clinical notes of patients requiring imminent admission, ensuring all assessments, diagnostic investigation and test results are up-to-date and in place to ensure a smooth admission process To liaise with the discharge coordinator and ward staff to ensure appropriate and timely discharge/follow-up arrangement are in place for patients