Band 6/7 Clinical Nurse Specialist (Gynaecological Cancers)

A fantastic opportunity has arisen within the Gynaecological cancer nurse specialist team for a dynamic clinical nurse specialist. We are a friendly team with a genuine commitment to staff personal and professional development. We are looking for enthusiastic, self-motivated and passionate senior nurses who are compassionate, caring and can work well with a wide range of professional colleagues looking after complex patients with a gynaecological cancer diagnosis. We work at both the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Townlands Hospital and Bracknell Healthspace. We strongly encourage informal visits, telephone or email discussion prior to application.

Main duties of the job:

• Working in a small and friendly team within a larger CNS service, you will work alongside a multidisciplinary team of other dedicated and highly skilled healthcare professionals to care for patients and their families, delivering our high service standards, sharing best practice and actively improving the way we work.
• You will provide autonomous nurse-led services alongside the rest of the team.
• Offering support and signposting for patients at diagnosis and onwards.
• Providing symptom advice and support for a group of patients with complex and often fast changing needs.
• Holistic Needs Assessment.
• Multidisciplinary team working.
• Telephone assessment and follow-up.

About us:

Reading sits on the river Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford and Southampton. With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work and play and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK. The CQC recently rated the care provided by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as Good. Our "CARE" values: Compassionate, Aspirational, Resourceful, Excellent, reflect the type of Trust we aspire to be and you can join our dedicated and talented staff to make this happen.

Job responsibilities:

• Work as an expert in clinical field to deliver specialist clinical services to patients with gynaecological cancers.
• Provide holistic needs assessment and individualised compassionate care and be responsible for the delivery of patient-focused programmes of care, which address the complex and changing health and well-being needs of this patient group.
• Works with other professional groups in secondary and primary settings to develop and maintain holistic services for patients.
• Provide specialist, interdisciplinary education and training to other staff and students.
• Clinically manage and engineer the cancer pathway for patients with a diagnosis of cancer.
• Work strategically to influence and drive the development of the service both locally and nationally.
• Lead clinical audits in own area.
• Participate in /facilitates/ undertakes research in specialist field.

Please refer to the attached Job Description & Person Specification for further details.

Person Specification:

• Registered Nurse (Pt 1/12)
• Educated to a minimum of 1st degree level or able to demonstrate equivalent experience
• Qualification in specialist area of gynaecology and/or oncology when available
• ENB 998/ Slice, C&G 730 or equivalent

Experience:

• Significant post qualification experience of which 2 years must be in speciality
• Detailed experience in facilitation/ teaching/ assessing/ coaching
• Experience of successful change management
• Experience of local/ strategic influencing
• Evidence of recent clinical practice in specialist area of gynaecological nursing and/or oncology

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.