An exciting opportunity to be part of an established, highly functioning, specialist OG cancer nursing team.
The aim of this post is to provide comprehensive, highly specialised assessment, care, advice and support to patients with suspected or confirmed UGI cancer and their cares/family. Act as a key worker and liaise with other healthcare professionals to provide the best possible specialist care for patients. This will be for local patient group but also those referred from peripheral Trusts for treatment (we are a specialist centre for the treatment of OG cancers and a cancer treatment centre). This will be set upon a high standard of knowledge and skills, both academically and through experience.
To be part of the delivery of cancer diagnosis/ treatment/ living with and beyond cancer/ survivorship and support to cancer patients and their families, ensuring compliance with all national cancer standards (COSD).
Responsibilities include: Providing nurse-led telephone clinics at all points of the cancer pathway. Providing cover for the primary cancer diagnosis clinic in the absence of the band 8a/ lead. Providing HNA for all cancer patients and being an active member of the OG cancer support group. Acting as a senior expert nurse to promote the service, and as an educator and mentor for more junior staff both within the team and to the wider Trust staff, ultimately delivering high quality care and best practice.
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research.
All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.
UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return, we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by our staff, patients and carers, that unite us as a Trust.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name:
Miss Debbie Maddox
Job title:
Lead OG Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist
Email address:
debbie.maddox@uhnm.nhs.uk
Telephone number:
01782674695.
We welcome informal visits, please contact D. Maddox to arrange.
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The aim of this post is to provide comprehensive, highly specialised assessment, care, advice and support to patients with suspected or confirmed UGI cancer and their cares/family. Act as a key worker and liaise with other healthcare professionals to provide the best possible specialist care for patients. This will be for local patient group but also those referred from peripheral Trusts for treatment (we are a specialist centre for the treatment of OG cancers and a cancer treatment centre). This will be set upon a high standard of knowledge and skills, both academically and through experience.
To be part of the delivery of cancer diagnosis/ treatment/ living with and beyond cancer/ survivorship and support to cancer patients and their families, ensuring compliance with all national cancer standards (COSD).
Responsibilities include: Providing nurse-led telephone clinics at all points of the cancer pathway. Providing cover for the primary cancer diagnosis clinic in the absence of the band 8a/ lead. Providing HNA for all cancer patients and being an active member of the OG cancer support group. Acting as a senior expert nurse to promote the service, and as an educator and mentor for more junior staff both within the team and to the wider Trust staff, ultimately delivering high quality care and best practice.
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research.
All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.
UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return, we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by our staff, patients and carers, that unite us as a Trust.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name:
Miss Debbie Maddox
Job title:
Lead OG Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist
Email address:
debbie.maddox@uhnm.nhs.uk
Telephone number:
01782674695.
We welcome informal visits, please contact D. Maddox to arrange.
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