Mcmillan Upper Gi Oncology Cns - London, United Kingdom - Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Fast forward your career by joining our Upper GI (OG and HPB) Cancer CNS team.

Our department is full of opportunity for nurses who are looking to expand their skills, get involved in quality improvement and collaborate with leading surgical and oncology teams.

We are absolutely committed to ensuring that our patients have the best possible experience within our hospitals.

We are looking for people who are committed to delivering excellent patient care, whatever their role, and who take pride in what they do.

You will be supported by a team of CNSs and other MDT members delivering an exceptional standard of nursing care for patients and their families throughout the cancer patient pathway.

You will further develop skills enabling you to practice at an advanced clinical level, both in your own clinical practice and as a role model to others as an UGI cancer Key Worker.

Provide specialist nursing advice, care and support to patients with, cancer and facilitate high quality, individualised care to patients/clients and relatives/carers, both inpatients and outpatients in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team and in line with local and national targets.
At all times ensure that the needs of the patient are placed at the centre of care delivery. Where appropriate acting as 'associate key worker'.
Work to improve the patient experience throughout the patient journey.
Deputise for their line manager in designated tasks relevant to the development of role/clinical specialty.
Act as professional role model, to support senior CNSs, providing direct and indirect clinical care, teaching and research as designated.
To work with senior members of the team and contribute to best working practice of the clinical nurse specialist role in accordance with local and national policy and ensure the needs of patients and their families are central to service improvement initiatives

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme.

Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

Places quality at the heart of practice by delivering evidence based individualised patient care according to patient's changing health care needs, through holistic needs assessment, (HNA). Providing specialist advice to ensure effective continuity of care delivery with cancer.
Acts asAssociate Keyworkerfor a clinical caseload within specialty, working to support the coordination of care and provide easy access for ongoing support for patients.
In liaison with other CNS' within the team, supports the MDT chair and MDT coordinator (MDTC) to ensure the MDT requirements are accurate and robustly managed within specified timeframes in accordance with local and national policy, to ensure: proficient pathway communication internal and external; clinical data collection; cancer data reporting/cancer waiting times compliance; cancer pathway management.
In liaison with other CNS' within the team, works with MDT Chair, MDTC and Data Tracker to ensure effective and efficient data collection/MDT function and outcomes are accurately recorded.
Proficient use of Somerset Data Collection tool to record communication/interaction with patients.