Head and Neck Clinical Nurse Specialist in Chesterfield

Main duties of the job

Deliver expert, patient-centred care to individuals with head and neck cancer and related conditions. Act as patient advocate. Support patients and families throughout their treatment journey, providing education, clinical guidance, and emotional support. Signpost to other services when appropriate. Work collaboratively within the CNS team, Dietitians, Speech and Language Therapists, Surgeons, Oncologists, Clinic staff, ward staff, the wider MDT to ensure seamless and coordinated care. Participate in oncology clinics, multidisciplinary meetings, Maxillofacial wound care clinics, HNA clinics. Contribute to service development initiatives, and quality improvements projects. Identification of specific care needs of the patients with Head, Neck, and Thyroid cancer, delivering information at appropriate points in the patient’s pathway. There is some cross over with the skin cancer team and the maxillofacial teams resulting in shared care with a small cohort of skin cancer patients and their wound care.

Working for our organisation

At Chesterfield Royal Hospital, we are committed to bringing our people, communities, and partners together to provide patient care we can all be proud of. Our values of Compassion, Ambition, Respect, and Encouragement guide everything we do. The post holder will work within a supportive and inclusive environment, where teamwork is paramount and where your contributions are valued. We are a small team with a lot of passion, and we are looking forward to working with our new addition to the team.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

See attached job description and person specification for the full duties and responsibilities.

Person specification

Skills and Knowledge

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Audit experience and subsequent quality improvement
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Sound IT skills
• Awareness of local and national guidelines
• Evidence of developing clinical skills
• Advanced communication course
• Research experience
• Leadership course

Qualifications and Training

• 1st level degree or equivalent experience
• Speciality related course at degree level or equivalent experience
• Teaching and assessing qualification
• Non-medical prescriber (or willing to work towards)
• Non-medical prescriber (or willing to work towards)
• Sage and Thyme course

Experience

• Significant, relevant (post registration) experience with two years or more in speciality area
• Ability to conduct nurse led clinics
• Facilitate and support learning
• Awareness of Quality Assurance/peer review process
• Management and leadership experience
• Evidence of leading a change project
• Experience of quality assurance/peer review process
• Experience in Head and Neck cancers
• Experience in Head and Neck wound care
• Experience in tracheostomy care

Personal Attributes

• Able to use own initiative and work autonomously
• Positive attitude, self-motivated
• Able to manage and organise own workload with conflicting priorities
• Able to work under pressure
• Recognise own limitations
• Work effectively with the MDT
• Proactive in the continued development of the service
• Adaptable to meet service needs

Demonstrates Trust Values

• Proud to CARE - Compassion, Achievement, Relationships, Environment

Flexible Working

If you're looking for flexible or predictable working arrangements, please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate this. If it works for our service and patients, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is committed to ensuring the safety of all our staff and patients therefore encourages and supports staff to be vaccinated against COVID19 as this remains the best line of defence against the virus.

UK Points-based immigration system

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK) are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Please note that from 1 January 2021, to work in the UK all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply can self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship here Work in the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk ).

It is vital that you provide full and accurate details of your current immigration status on the application form. Overseas applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK must present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided in continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

If you are applying for a vacancy in health or adult social care, you may be eligible to apply for the Health and Care Worker visa instead, which is cheaper to apply for and you do not need to pay the annual immigration health surcharge.

Communications

Communications throughout the application process will be via e-mail therefore please check your e-mail account and Trac account regularly. References are also requested by email (where possible). Therefore to speed up the recruitment process please provide an email address for all referees when completing your application form.

If you require any support in completing the application form, please do not hesitate to contact the HR Support Services team on 01246 513177 and we will be happy to provide assistance.

Please see the attached documents and links in relation to working for Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. In particular, the general conditions of employment and benefits of working for the trust.

This role is part of the integrated health and social care community across Derbyshire, where there are many opportunities to work across different locations and providers developing new and different skills. Whilst this role is initially based in Chesterfield there may be future opportunities to be based at different locations within the health and social care community which we may talk to you about in the future.

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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