Job overview
The Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust Prostate Cancer Team are seeking an experienced and motivated Band 6 or Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist to join our urology oncology team, providing expert care to men with advanced and metastatic prostate cancer.
This is a highly autonomous role, managing a large and complex caseload and delivering holistic, patient centred care across the prostate cancer pathway. The post holder will work closely with the wider multidisciplinary team while functioning as a key point of contact for patients, families, and professionals.
Main duties of the job
Alongside the consultant clinical oncologist, the post holder will provide evidence-based, specialist nursing care to patients with advanced and metastatic prostate cancer across Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust. This will include assessment, treatment, symptom management, and survivorship support across Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust
Independently manage a caseload, demonstrating autonomous clinical decision making
Deliver nurse led clinics, including non medical prescribing, treatment reviews, and toxicity management. Education, support and training will be provided to achieve prescribing qualification if not already held.
Act as a key worker, offering holistic support encompassing physical, psychological, social, and supportive care needs.
Work collaboratively within the MDT to coordinate care, escalate concerns, and support treatment planning
Contribute to service development, audit, and quality improvement initiatives
Provide education and support to patients, carers, and healthcare professionals
Working for our organisation
Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.
Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.
We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.
The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
Person specification
Essential
Essential criteria
1. Evidence of management skills within current banding
Interest in field of prostate cancer
Essential criteria
2. Interest in field of prostate cancer
Desirable criteria
3. Evidence of reading around specialism
Managing own workload
Essential criteria
4. Evidence of managing own workload
Communiction skills
Essential criteria
5. Evidence of enhanced communication skills, any courses attended
Desirable criteria
6. Advanced Communication skills
Oncology
Essential criteria
7. Experience of working in oncology
Desirable criteria
8. Interest in working in oncology