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Upper GI Nurse Specialist
The closing date is 08 July 2025
The Band 6 Nurse Specialist will work within a small but dynamic team caring for patients with potential and diagnosed UGI cancer. Streamlining their pathway and working closely with endoscopy departments, radiology, pathology, MDT coordinators, GP practices, district nursing team, Macmillan services and tertiary care.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Main duties of the job
Participates in research and clinical audits in own specialist area.
To provide nursing care at an advanced level.
Provide and assess the need for symptomatic and psychological support to patients by maintaining close contact by use of telephone, outpatient and ward visits.
To provide information and ongoing support to newly diagnosed cancer patients.
To participate in trust wide educational events and be available as a learning recourse.
To support in the delivery of the faster diagnosis/62 day pathway cancer target.
To support in the delivery of the 18 week RTT performance target.
About us
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Job responsibilities
Provide specialist nursing with a defined case load for cancer/benign patients including the setting of standards of care, assessment of care needs and the development and implementation and evaluation of programmes of care.
To act as a link between the MDT and other primary and secondary care providers to provide a seamless pathway of care to patients across all Upper GI services.
Provide a nursing contribution to policy and clinical service development within the upper GI service.
Contribute to the Trust strategic agenda.
Act as a key point of contact to ensure timely care and treatment for all patients on a upper GI pathway.
Delivery of cancer review/benign outpatient clinics.
Support the Upper GI Consultant Surgeons in results clinics.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* 1st Level live NMC required Registered Nurse
* Registered Mentor
* PP126/127 or equivalent
* D32/33
* Degree supplemented by diploma level specialist training and experience or equivalent
* Evidence of qualification to undertake the supervision, teaching and assessing of students (essential requirement for post, expectation this will be completed within an 18 month period)
* Non Medical Prescribing Qualification
Experience
* Significant experience in specialty
* Experience in Benign upper GI specialty
* Experience of patients on a cancer pathway.
* Special interest in training for Endoscopy clinical/Benign technical procedures.
Other
* It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes
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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