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- Address
- Trust Offices
- St Thomas' Street
- London
- SE1 9RT
- Contact Number
- 020 7188 7188
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Lung Cancer diagnostic Clinical Nurse Specialist
Closed for applications on: 15-Jul-2024 00:02
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 15-Jul-2024 00:02
Key details
Location
- Site
- Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospital Chest Clinic
- Address
- Lambeth Palace Road
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SE1 7EH
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday-Friday)
Salary
- Salary
- £51,488 - £57,802 p.a Inc HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Respiratory Medicine
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to appoint a highly motivated band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist with proven clinical skills in respiratory/Cancer nursing to join a well-developed and supportive multidisciplinary team providing optimal care for patients and their families within the Lung Cancer diagnostic pathway. The successful candidate will have outstanding communication skills, be dynamic, fast-thinking, kind and confident. Your priority will always be a patient-focused service; you will have proven organisation and IT skills and demonstrable experience in managing patients undergoing diagnostic procedures in this busy service.
You will be working across both Guys and St Thomas's hospitals, delivering high quality clinical care, often in a time-critical context. You will be open to learning new skills and capable of growing the service while leading a team of Deputy Clinical Nurse Specialists. The successful candidate will have a working knowledge of the timelines in oncology care, and be pro-active in developing service improvements, training and development and acting as a role model, growing constructive working relationships with both in patient and outpatient services.
Closing date: 14th July 2024
Interview date: 22nd July 2024
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As a CNS you will review patients within both outpatient and inpatient settings offering symptom management and support in our nurse-led clinics.
The role also requires you to support patients and their families, liaising with internal and external services to ensure continuity of care.
You will transfer, apply and develop your nursing knowledge and skills to ensure that the quality of care and the needs of adults within the diagnostic pathway are optimised in accordance with current national and Trust guidelines. You must be organised, confident and have excellent communication skills to enable you to liaise effectively with the MDT and work with a diverse and varied group of patients and carers. You will be an integral part of the team working in partnership with a wide range of clinical and administrative colleagues and be the main point of contact for patients awaiting their interventional procedures.
Working for our organisation
Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises of five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St, Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation. We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.
We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Managing a caseload of patients, providing information and support.
- Conducting face-to-face and telephone clinic appointments between Guy’s and St. Thomas’ sites, ensuring that patients are seen within recommended time scales and targets.
- Work closely with the Pathway Coordinators to ensure clinics are managed efficiently and referrals processed in a timely manner.
- To review inpatients as appropriate to ensure continuity of care and to give advice/ support to hospital staff.
- To take responsibility for the patient helpline, triaging and responding to patients and their relatives in a timely manner, escalating concerns as appropriate.
- Co-ordination of care for patients requiring diagnostic procedures within the chest clinic and inpatient setting.
- Attend and contribute to a range of MDT meetings, internal and external meetings relevant to the service representing GSTT.
- Over-see nurse-led clinics for patients post thoracic surgery and under surveillance.
- Requesting scans in line with Non medical referral agreement
- Ensuring scans are completed in a timely manner and all relevant information collated prior to their appointment.
- Assessing patient’s health and holistic needs and make referrals to other services as needed.
- Guide patients through the lung cancer post-op follow up pathway and providing patients with a point of contact.
- Audit monitor and review the service developing Standard Operating Procedures to ensure continuity of the service.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NMC registered nurse
- Mentorship or equivalent
- Post-registration specialist course
- Leadership qualification
Desirable criteria
- Advanced assessment qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous Lung Cancer/Respiratory experience
- Management of junior staff
Desirable criteria
- Outpatient experience
- Nurse-led clinic experience
- Lung cancer diagnostic experience
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Up to date knowledge of current clinical and professional issues
- Sound knowledge of current issues in the profession and practice of nursing
- Leadership skills
- Understanding of governance
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of Cancer pathways
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kelly Stewart
- Job title
- Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07738262979
- Additional information
Ali Quinn B7 CNS
[email protected] (Tuesday and Thursday only)
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