Acute Oncology CNS

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	01 Ebrill 2026
Cyflog:	£38,682.00 i £46,580.00 bob blwyddyn
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£38682.00 - £46580.00 a year
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	13 Ebrill 2026
Lleoliad:	Torquay, TQ2 7AA
Cwmni:	NHS Jobs
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	C9388-26-0311

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Communication and working relationships Demonstrate at an advanced level, communication skills which provide appropriate support, relevant information and education to facilitate decision making on all treatment options for patients and their family/carers To establish close liaison and communication with and between all disciplines involved in the care of patients and their families/carers in order to facilitate a coordinated service in the hospital and to ensure an effective discharge into the community. Support new patients, identifying their psychological, emotional, spiritual, financial and cultural needs in relation to their condition and proposed treatment pathway. To act as the patients, advocate when necessary and inform and educate them regarding their treatment options enabling patients to make informed choices, referring back to clinician where appropriate. The post holder has the freedom to act within broad professional policies, seeking guidance from others as necessary. He/she is accountable for his/her professional actions as they will not be directly supervised and will have broad local working procedures to operate within. To work collaboratively and autonomously with authority, using expert knowledge and skills to help develop and deliver services across organizational, professional and geographical boundaries. Planning and organisation Reducing LOS ensuring discharge planning starts from the patients admission Supporting the review of policies/clinical guidelines Patient safety benchmarking Patient experience measure Participate in the development of the service and act as a change agent, where necessary leading staff and facilitating the change process whilst encouraging others to be innovative and adaptable in the approach to change Analytical and judgement To be aware of own limitations and emotional effort needed and regularly attend clinical supervision Collect, collate, evaluate and report information, maintaining accurate patient records Ability to recognise and respond to signs of patient deterioration in a timely manner is pivotal in the AOS role for patient outcomes Responsibility for patients and client care To make appropriate clinical decisions following assessment utilising specialist knowledge in this specialty, underpinned by theory and experience To act as a resource in providing evidence-based advice and information to promote the health and wellbeing of patients with a known cancer diagnosis and unknown primary Maintain own clinical development by keeping abreast of new treatments and technologies within emergency and unscheduled care To improve the quality of the patient experience by identifying and meeting the individual clinical needs of patients To promote an innovative and progressive attitude to the continual improvement of patient care through audit, research and evidence-based practice To act as a role model and highly competent specialist practitioner, providing leadership in developing staff and others, knowledge and skills of patient care within wards, departments and community setting To have a visible presence with key points of entry across the trust The post holder will support the coordination of the metastatic spinal cord compression coordinators and will actively participate in the rota for this element of service Support and promote an integrated approach to quality, seeking always to improve patient care and patient experience To be conversant with all Trust policies and procedures and ensure they are correctly implemented Work within the scope of professional practice and adhere with the nursing and midwifery council code of professional conduct ensuring extension of practice in line with the agreed local and national guidelines, protocols and competencies Policy and service responsibility To provide expert support, direction and judgment in the collection of information towards annual peer review processes and service developments, working closely with other colleagues, in the review and analysis of the service Expand and develop the role to meet the changing needs of patients working within the parameters of the Code of professional conduct, Trust and NMC guidelines To develop evidence-based policies and procedures specifically required by the team Ensure that all inpatients with complications of Oncology SACT are reviewed by the AOS Oncology team within 24 hours of admission (or next working day) Promote the role of the acute oncology service and ensure referral processes and trigger alerts are in place to ensure appropriate timely referrals Responsibility for finance, equipment and other resources Ensure the effective and efficient use of physical and financial resources; make recommendations regarding supplies and equipment Collect, collate and report activity data to key stakeholders, producing regular formal reports Actively manage cancer patient flow working with and advising the clinical site team Responsibility for supervision, leadership and management To review own professional development in line with NMC guidelines on PREP To identify personal training and development needs To provide education and teaching to clinical staff and other colleagues on aspects of acute oncology to support the development of specialist skills and knowledge To participate in teaching and assessing in clinical practice, including mentoring of members of the cancer SACT team undertaking courses To identify, assess and meet the educational needs of the patient and their family, paying particular attention to the public and personal attitudes to cancer and how these relate to political, social, economic and ethical issues Undertake training courses to develop maintain and increase knowledge, skill and expertise whilst reflecting service and Trust aims To work collaboratively with the Cancer Support team, the SACT team and colleagues on education strategies to support cancer service development and promote practice development Information technology and administrative duties Utilising IT systems maintain accurate records of all activity in a timely process Assist and as required lead in the audit and evaluation of the service reporting back to lead clinician/matron/managers within the care group Assist in the completion of national audit programmes and network agreed minimum data sets Responsibility for research and development Lead and assist with development and implementation of clinical audits and research projects in own specialist area, ensuring the findings are disseminated and good practice is shared across the trust and beyond in accordance with trust governance and clinical guidelines including Peer review process Participate in local and national R&D that can influence and support AOS developments