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Acute Oncology Specialist Nurse Practitioner
1 month ago
About the Role:
We are seeking an experienced and motivated nurse practitioner to join our Acute Oncology Team at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust. The successful candidate will work closely with our multidisciplinary team to provide high-quality care to patients with acute oncology needs.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide expert nursing leadership to support nursing and medical colleagues in the delivery of acute oncology care.
- Work independently to organise and maintain a high-quality Clinical Nurse Specialist service for patients admitted acutely unwell to the trust.
- Collaborate with the acute medical teams on both hospital sites to promote coordinated care and contribute to the delivery and evaluation of evidence-based patient care.
- Assess the clinical and holistic needs of patients, liaise with the oncology team and the wider multidisciplinary teams across the Trust's sites to promote coordinated care.
- Plan and organise own caseload, develop organisational and clinical skills, and participate in managing the administration associated with the service.
About Us:
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital trust in the south-east of England, providing a full range of general hospital services and some aspects of specialist and complex care to around 600,000 people living in west Kent and East Sussex. We have a team of over 8,000 full and part-time staff and are committed to developing a culture where everyone can reach their full potential with opportunities to grow and develop their career.
Person Specification:
- NMC Level 1 Registration in Adult Nursing
- Post registration qualification
- First level degree
- SACT training
Desirable:
- Willing to work towards MSc level
- Post registration qualification in cancer/palliative care
- Teaching qualification
- Advanced Communication Skills
- Clinical Assessment Skills training
Knowledge & Experience:
- Worked with cancer/palliative care patient groups
- Ability to deal with stressful situations
- Expert in nurse led practice
- Excellent teaching and training skills
- Able to problem solve and initiate change
- Able to work across professional team and organisational boundaries
Skills:
- Proven ability to communicate with patients suffering life-threatening illness and those who may be imminently dying
- Proven ability to motivate and enthuse staff
- Proven ability to communicate with personnel outside immediate work environments
- Ability to teach different groups of healthcare staff
- Understand when to escalate issues to line manager in a timely way
- Confidence in breaking bad news to patients and families
- Able to assess, plan, deliver and evaluate specialist individualised and evidence-based nursing care
- Ability to make decisions under pressure
- Able to interpret blood test and other test results to assess whether standard parameters have been met
- Able to act independently to make complex, often difficult decisions with far-reaching implications
- Ability to demonstrate a problem-solving approach
- Experience of audit, benchmarking or research and the ability to use results to inform change and development
- Demonstrates change management skills
- Proven ability to communicate across different health sectors
- Able to prioritise and manage own work
- Demonstrates change management skills
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Exercise own initiative when dealing with issues of competence
- Maintain accurate records and documentation
- Ability to use common software packages Word for windows and Microsoft Outlook
- Able to use 'Results reporting', Lab care, PAS
- Ability to use databases
