East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
The post holder will support the cancer services and oncology teams to provide clinical, professional, and managerial leadership, ensuring high standards of evidence-based practice.
This nurse-led service requires the post holder to work autonomously in ensuring the safe co-ordination, triage clinical assessment, treatment planning, decision making, and diagnosis during the patient's care pathway. The post holder must be proactive in the development and implementation of the clinical service and long-term strategic direction of the Acute Oncology service, maintaining compliance, ensuring person-centred care, and evaluating the patient experience across the service.
Main Duties of the Job The post holder will support the cancer services and oncology teams to provide clinical, professional, and managerial leadership, ensuring high standards of evidence-based practice. This nurse-led service requires the post holder to work autonomously in ensuring the safe coordination, triage clinical assessment, treatment planning, decision making, and diagnosis during the patient's care pathway. The post holder must be proactive in the development and implementation of the clinical service and long-term strategic direction of the Acute Oncology service, maintaining compliance, ensuring person-centred care, and evaluating the patient experience across the service.
The post holder is a key member of the Acute Oncology Service to ensure safe care to patients and service users and maintain a safe environment for all according to local and national standards. The expectation for the practitioner is to promote effective workplace cultures across the new team, support acute oncology pathways within the organization to sustain person-centred safe effective care. As part of this team, the post may require the holder to work on other sites with East Kent Hospital Trust to meet service requirements and to ensure that staff maintain and develop their skills. In addition to covering the acute oncology service, the post holder will be expected to support brain, CUP, and sarcoma patients.
About Us We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with five hospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 800,000 people. Our vision is 'great healthcare from great people'. Everything we do is guided by our values: 'People feel cared for, safe, respected, and confident that we are making a difference'. We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called 'We care'. It's about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We're looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families, and carers we care for every day.
Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used, then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants from seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.
Please note that if you require a Certificate of Sponsorship to work in the UK, you must declare this on your application form, even if you currently have a certificate of sponsorship or a work permit for another role and are already working in the country. Please note we are only able to sponsor candidates on a Skilled Worker Visa applying for roles Band 5 and above.
Job Responsibilities Please scroll down to access the full Job Description and Person Specification located in Documents to download.
If you have further queries, please don't hesitate to contact the line manager using the contact details below.
Person Specification Knowledge
Knowledge of cancer pathways, able to write reports and generate data, able to present written and verbal handovers.
Qualifications
RGN, NMC registration, degree, teaching.
Non-medical prescribing, master's degree, clinical skills and examination, service development.
Skills
Advanced clinical assessment, advanced communication skills, leadership skills, excellent written and verbal skills.
Project management skills, triaging skills, ability to work under pressure, demonstrate the Trust's values.
Experience
Experience with a range of acute settings, Band 6 experience for a minimum of 2 years, minimum of five years experience as a Band 5, experience caring for cancer patients.
5 years clinical experience, experience in ED, chemotherapy knowledge.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check 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.
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This nurse-led service requires the post holder to work autonomously in ensuring the safe co-ordination, triage clinical assessment, treatment planning, decision making, and diagnosis during the patient's care pathway. The post holder must be proactive in the development and implementation of the clinical service and long-term strategic direction of the Acute Oncology service, maintaining compliance, ensuring person-centred care, and evaluating the patient experience across the service.
Main Duties of the Job The post holder will support the cancer services and oncology teams to provide clinical, professional, and managerial leadership, ensuring high standards of evidence-based practice. This nurse-led service requires the post holder to work autonomously in ensuring the safe coordination, triage clinical assessment, treatment planning, decision making, and diagnosis during the patient's care pathway. The post holder must be proactive in the development and implementation of the clinical service and long-term strategic direction of the Acute Oncology service, maintaining compliance, ensuring person-centred care, and evaluating the patient experience across the service.
The post holder is a key member of the Acute Oncology Service to ensure safe care to patients and service users and maintain a safe environment for all according to local and national standards. The expectation for the practitioner is to promote effective workplace cultures across the new team, support acute oncology pathways within the organization to sustain person-centred safe effective care. As part of this team, the post may require the holder to work on other sites with East Kent Hospital Trust to meet service requirements and to ensure that staff maintain and develop their skills. In addition to covering the acute oncology service, the post holder will be expected to support brain, CUP, and sarcoma patients.
About Us We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with five hospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 800,000 people. Our vision is 'great healthcare from great people'. Everything we do is guided by our values: 'People feel cared for, safe, respected, and confident that we are making a difference'. We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called 'We care'. It's about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We're looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families, and carers we care for every day.
Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used, then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants from seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.
Please note that if you require a Certificate of Sponsorship to work in the UK, you must declare this on your application form, even if you currently have a certificate of sponsorship or a work permit for another role and are already working in the country. Please note we are only able to sponsor candidates on a Skilled Worker Visa applying for roles Band 5 and above.
Job Responsibilities Please scroll down to access the full Job Description and Person Specification located in Documents to download.
If you have further queries, please don't hesitate to contact the line manager using the contact details below.
Person Specification Knowledge
Knowledge of cancer pathways, able to write reports and generate data, able to present written and verbal handovers.
Qualifications
RGN, NMC registration, degree, teaching.
Non-medical prescribing, master's degree, clinical skills and examination, service development.
Skills
Advanced clinical assessment, advanced communication skills, leadership skills, excellent written and verbal skills.
Project management skills, triaging skills, ability to work under pressure, demonstrate the Trust's values.
Experience
Experience with a range of acute settings, Band 6 experience for a minimum of 2 years, minimum of five years experience as a Band 5, experience caring for cancer patients.
5 years clinical experience, experience in ED, chemotherapy knowledge.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check 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.
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