Job overview
We are looking for a highly motivated and compassionate Specialist Nurse to join our Upper GI Cancer Specialist Nursing Team. OUH is a tertiary referral centre for oesophogogastric cancer.
Informal visits are welcomed and form an essential insight into the service. Please contact the team for more information.
The role will support the current CNS with ongoing development of the oesophogogastric service as well as supporting patients with cancer of unknown primary.
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, supporting patients in clinical decision making, providing individualised information and co-ordinating complex care pathways. You will work closely with other members of the specialist nursing, AHP ( Allied Health professionals) and MDT team across both oncology and surgery. Liaising with primary care and other specialist teams, to ensure that patients are supported throughout their pathway.
Main duties of the job Job Summary:
·Employed as a Specialist Nurse, working at an enhanced level of practice, completing a specialist programme of training relevant to the role, or other service training curriculum, in line with their primary professional regulatory body requirements.
·Fulfilling the expectations and capabilities of a Specialist Nurse, will be achieved through workplace-based training and assessments and in clinical practice, with support through clinical supervision in own service/speciality area.
·The Specialist Nurse will be supported in their professional development and wellbeing, working at the level of enhanced practice, through achievement of the academic requirements and evidence of workplace-based capabilities and competence within their service/speciality.
·The Specialist Nurse will be expected to demonstrate and develop proficiency across the four pillars of practice, namely Clinical, Leadership and Management, Education and Research appropriate to their level of practice, and their scope of professional practice.
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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