Specialist Nurse Community - Essex, United Kingdom - Isle of Wight NHS Trust

Description

You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive quality and compassionate care and work with us to ensure the Trust continues its journey towards great people, great place.

This is an exciting opportunity for an advanced practitioner to take on this associate specialist nursing role working as a key member within the Cancer Multidisciplinary Team(s).

The post requires vision, innovation and the ability to work across professional boundaries, underpinned by a real desire to provide the highest standards of patient care.

This post will work in collaboration with, and autonomously, as part of the Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist Team to help develop and deliver acute services across organisational, professional and geographical boundaries.

The post will involve working with the Cancer CNS(s), covering for the CNS team in times of annual leave and sickness.

This role will work closely with key areas of the Trust, forging close working relationships with the Trust interventional consultants, visiting consultants from the Cancer Centre's, the Medical and Cancer Teams and the Specialist Palliative Care team.

With evidence of ongoing continuous professional development.

Working with the Cancer Management Team, Cancer Multidisciplinary Teams and Clinical Nurse Specialists this post will be responsible for the implementation and assessment of the service against the NHSI quality measures.

We are passionate about providing excellent CARE, which is why our values are C ompassion, A ccountable, R espect and E veryone counts.

Our mission is to make sure that our community is at the heart of everything we do and that we hold our values across all our services.

We are committed to endorsing inclusion, diversity and multiculturalism throughout out services and as such, our procedures and policies ensure that applicants are always treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.

The Isle of Wight NHS Trust is the only integrated acute, community, mental health and ambulance health care provider in England.

We serve a population of approximately 150,000 residents, making the services we offer variable and personalised with a flexible approach to our service users.

Working for our Trust brings a variety of benefits, including an onsite day nursery, cycle-to-work scheme, discounts at local businesses and gyms, and the opportunity to hire Trust's beach hut in Ryde.

We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

London can be reached in 90 minutes by rail from Southampton or Portsmouth. The island offers an amazing coastline with beautiful countryside, year-round events, festivals and award-winning attractions.

Our strategy sets out to ensure that we continue to be a provider of excellent and compassionate care.

As part of this strategy, we are proactively taking steps to ensure that we recruit and retain the highest quality of talent to provide CARE and we would welcome applications from under-represented groups to ensure our Trust is an inclusive and diverse employer.

Computer literate and adequate IT skills.
Working at senior level, ability to prioritise and manage own time and caseload.
Can prioritise and coordinate own work and that of junior staff
Expert in specialist area, competent at nursing care and life support to BLS standard
Able to critically analyse and offer innovative and creative ideas to improve patient care/working practices

Demonstrate expert verbal and non verbal communication skills and be able to impart sensitive, complex and significant news to patients and carers effectively, and to educate others in this area.

Registered Nurse with live NMC registration
Cancer care/ training/knowledge.
Formal qualification or through relevant cancer or counselling experience
Evidence of continuing professional development and training.
Advanced knowledge and a clear understanding of local and national cancer standards, policies and guidance.
To demonstrate a genuine interest in cancer care and knowledge of this speciality, working at an advanced level clinically and managerially
Competent in dealing with breaking of significant news to patients and relatives. (see below Communication skills training)
Counselling certificate
Advanced communication skills training/ qualification
To have completed relevant degree or Level 3 study and working towards masters level qualifications

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