Lung Cancer Cns Team - Manchester, United Kingdom - Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

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Manchester, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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An exciting opportunity to work within the Lung Cancer CNS team in a large Lung cancer directorate at Wythenshawe hospital.

The role will involve working alongside and supporting the CNS team in providing care and support to lung cancer patients and their families across the whole cancer pathway from diagnostic tests through treatments to survivorship or supportive care.

The postholder will have specific responsibilities in relation to triaging calls, and supporting the national personalized care programme, alongside working closely with the CNS team to ensure delivery of best care for this patient group.

2 x 37.5 hour per week positions available

The post holder will work as part of the Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust Lung Clinical Nurse Specialist Team to support the CNS team in delivering specialist nursing care to lung cancer patients and to support delivery of the nationally recommended Personalised Cancer Care Programme (Holistic Needs Assessment & Care Planning, Health and Well-being Events and Treatment Summary) including: -.

Providing support to the lung cancer nurse specialists in delivering care and support throughout the lung cancer pathway including diagnostics/surgery/oncology treatments/survivorship/best supportive care.

Providing support to cancer nurse specialists implementing personalised cancer care including assisting with holistic needs assessments and treatment summaries and organising health and well-being events.

Communicating effectively (daily and directly, face-to-face and telephone) with a range of individuals on various levels, eg: - patients, relatives, carers, other health / social care professionals and community workers.

Providing general information and support about cancer and cancer services to enable navigation of health and social care and to make choices that are best for the individual's cancer and their life.

Promoting equity for patients across the Greater Manchester footprint.

The post holder will be expected to work with all grades of medical & nursing staff and wider health / social care and community teams (including third sector and charity).

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts.

We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals.

We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes.

What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Diversity Matters

We're looking forward to hearing from you