Highly Specialist Nurse

3 weeks ago


Salford, United Kingdom Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

The Upper GI Cancer Highly Specialist Nurse is a core member of the Oesophago-gastric multi-disciplinary team. They will lead and manage a caseload of patients to provide specialist information, advice and support to patients, carers and staff. The role involves co-ordination of patient's pathways education and holistic assessment of patients with Upper GI cancer and complex benign disease. The role will involve close working relationships with the UGI MDT and surgical centre.

Main duties of the job

Sco is the provider of Upper GI Surgical services across Greater Manchester. The Service is divided into 3 sectors and this CNS Role will be the lead for one of these .

The role will include:

Management of patients on surgical cancer pathways

Preparation and presentation of patients at MDT

Liason with Local Hospitals

Nurse led Follow up clinics

Review of UGI inpatients

Working closely with Gastroenterology Consultants to support UGI patients diagnosed with cancer

Provision of Cancer recovery package

service development and improvement

research/audit?data collection

patient/user feedback.

Non Medical prescriber

About us

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please note an NMC PRN PIN is not a full NMC PIN and would not fulfil the essential criteria for this role.

This vacancy is open to those who have a current NMC PIN to practice as an Registered Nurse or Midwife in the UK, or those who are currently enrolled on a course which means they expect to receive their full NMC PIN within the next 3 months.

The NCA can no longer accept applications from International Nurses and Midwives who are yet to complete all competencies needed to receivea full NMC PIN to practice in the UK as we have paused our OSCE programme indefinitely. To learn more about how you can gain a full NMC PIN to be eligible to apply for our vacancies in the future, please see the NMC website:

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website:

We respect the value of difference. So, our aim is to employ people representative of the communities we serve. Regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, trans status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, all are welcome.

We continually review our recruitment processes to ensure they are supporting us achieving an inclusive and representative team.

We recognise that many people find interviews daunting and the conventional interview approach, of unseen questions, often impacts performance on the day. We are therefore piloting sending interview questions, to candidates, in advance.

This vacancy is within one of our pilot areas therefore if you are invited for interview you will receive your interview questions in advance of your interview date. Feedback on this process will also be requested to help our teams understand and evaluate your recruitment experience.

Person Specification

Registration

Essential

NMC Registration Degree or equivalent portfolio Experience within the speciality

Desirable

Proven years post registration experience Evidence of clinical care of UGI Cancer Patients

essential

Essential

Previous Cancer CNS experience

Desirable

Previous surgical experience

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