Job overview
An opportunity has arisen to join our dynamic and growing Thoracic Clinical Nurse Specialist team at University Hospital Bristol and Weston NHS foundation trust for a one year fixed term maternity leave cover.
You will be part of a well stablished and nationally recognised Clinical Nurse Specialist team, working alongside with the thoracic surgeons and other multidisciplinary lung cancer teams across the South West region to provide efficient, coordinated and excellent care for lung cancer surgical patients.
The job involves working both within the inpatient and outpatient setting. You will be a vital part on the patient lung cancer surgical journey, providing specialist advise and helping patients navigating the pathway.
We are a daily presence on the thoracic surgical ward, providing emotional support to patients and imbedding the principles of enhanced recovery. We also run a nurse led clinic to support patients with ambulatory chest drains and a lung cancer follow up clinic for patients under surveillance following cancer treatment.The team is also heavily involved supporting patients on consultant preoperative and follow up clinics and linking with other teams to ensure a seamless pathway.
The role involves weekly attendance to lung and complex case multidisciplinary meetings to advocate for your patients and ensure a coordinated and well informed decision on their treatment.
Main duties of the job
The thoracic Clinical Nurse Specialist role is varied and constantly developing to meet the speciality needs. You will be part of the wider thoracic surgical team, working closely with consultants in preoperative surgical clinics and ward rounds. but also independently on nurse led consultations.
The role involves working with a large proportion of patients with cancer during the preoperative recovery and follow up phases of their treatment, but also empowering to make well informed choices about alternative non- surgical treatments. The nature of communication required is sensitive and therefore a high degree of empathy and understanding is required. Advance communication skills need to be used to deliver potentially distressing information to patients and carers, and provide them with advice and emotional support in hospital and in the community. The role requires negotiating and supporting patients through healthy choices to help them thrive through their treatment.
You will work cohesively with all members of the multidisciplinary team within this trust as well as referring centres around the South West region, to ensure that the very best services to patients are provided at all times.
As a thoracic Clinical Nurse Specialist you will be using your expertise on thoracic surgery and lung cancer to educate and support patients,their carers and other health care professionals within the inpatient/outpatient settings.
Working for our organisation
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward- thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
* Appropriate post registration experience in nursing, speciality
* •Appropriate proven leadership and management experience
* •Proven commitment and experience, evidence in teaching
* •Experience as preceptor / mentor
Desirable criteria
* •Experience of undertaking research or audit projects
* •Evidence of commitment to research based practice or evidence of project work undertaken
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
* •1st Degree In nursing or health related subject, willing to undertake/ working towards
* •Relevant accredited post registration qualification at level 3
* •Qualification in Teaching and Assessing
Desirable criteria
* •Willingness to work towards Masters level academic study
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
* •Organisation and management skills
* •Teaching
* •Ability to work effectively under pressure -
* •Ability to problem solve
* •Flexibility, adaptability to meet needs of a changing service
* •Ability to work alone or as part of a team
* •Ability to cope with emotional issues presented in the course of work, and to support others
* •Knowledge of national and local specialty specific issues
* •IT skills including use of email and Microsoft office packages
* •Act as a role model and as a mentor/assessor
* •Innovative and participates with practice and policy change
* •Awareness of professional responsibilities to self and others
* •Commitment to the development and provision of high quality nursing care
* •Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
* •Awareness of current national changes in nursing / NHS
We hope that you will decide to join us and become part of this exciting journey, helping us to shape our future together.
· As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
· The Trust is committed to investing in and caring for all our staff. We will support you in maintaining and improving your health and wellbeing, as well as your career development through management and training support - developing exceptional people for exceptional careers.
· UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults.
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Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore, please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification
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