Job overview
Acute Oncology senior specialist nurses play a pivotal role in ensuring patients admitted non-electively due to complications of their cancer or cancer treatment, experience excellent streamlined care and ensuring the most clinically appropriate care pathway is followed.
This is a -day service, and the post holder will work independently and autonomously, providing expert clinical care and advice, in conjunction with, and support from the wider multi-disciplinary team, including Oncologists based at the Churchill Hospital, site-specific cancer Clinical Nurse Specialists, acute physicians and health care professionals in the Emergency Department and in-patient wards.
This is a busy service, and the post holder will be responsible for reviewing patients presenting acutely, assessing and diagnosing acute oncology emergencies, taking referrals and reviewing patients with acute oncology presentations. Local and Network guidelines are in use and a good working knowledge of these would be an advantage.
Main duties of the job
You will be expected to promote a high-quality service that provides specialist care, information, support and management to patients, their families and carers. Our nursing teams are central to the delivery of excellent care to cancer patients attending the Oxford University Hospitals. Our teams deliver a holistic approach using the latest technologies to support individualised assessments and care planning. The service aims to provide focused and co-ordinated specialist knowledge and skills to enable patients to have access to a comprehensive package of care and intervention to enable them to live as well as possible, supporting patients in clinical decision making, providing individualised information and co-ordinating complex care pathways.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
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