Job Description

Fancy a change? Interested in diversifying your skills to boost your CV? Oxfordshire Lung cancer screening is a new OUH provided service. Nurse-led and community based it is an ideal opportunity to join a friendly and innovative team keen to support training and development.



The lung cancer service save lives and improves the health of our local populations through early identification of cancer and promoting smoking cessation. Eligible asymptomatic participants between the ages of 55 to 74 with a smoking history are invited to attend our mobile CT unit for a lung health check. Your role will be to tackle inequalities by promoting engagement in the programme, particularly amongst "hard to reach" groups and then support participants through their Lung cancer screening journey. For some this will lead to cancer diagnosis. But early detection from low-dose CT scans using artificial intelligence to enhance image analysis can transform 5-year survival rates from around 15% to around 85%. Incidental findings of raised cardiovascular risk will enable early intervention to help prevent heart attacks and strokes.



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Targeted Lung Health Check (TLHC) - Oxford University Hospitals (ouh.nhs.uk)

Job Purpose:

The primary purpose of the Lung cancer screening programme is to enable the early detection of lung cancer in order to save lives.



The post holder will be expected to provide specialist knowledge and care to the patient and their carers. They will support colleagues in the effective management of patients in their specialist area who require a high level of judgement, discretion and decision making within an inpatient or outpatient setting. The post-holder will provide education and training to patients, carers, and healthcare professionals.



As this is a mobile service, the post holder is expected to get themselves to the various locations as well as Unipart house where we have office space. There is an element of hybrid working for this post, and you may be required to work from home for parts of the week as well as from the mobile units and Unipart house as the service requires.



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. Find out more here www.ouh.nhs.uk



The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital , Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.



Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

Main competencies required for this post are:

Lung Health Check Specific duties:

Provide specialist nursing advice



Work autonomously as well as part of a mutli-disciplinary team.



Provide nurse led clinics.



Ability to provide health promotion and smoking cessation advice.



Formulation of individualised care pathways with the patient and the carer.



Promote engagement with the service



Engage in audit and/or information collection.

General duties:

Undertake comprehensive health care needs assessment of patients, reassessing as and when appropriate.



Assess, plan, prioritise, implement and evaluate nursing interventions to meet patients' needs.



Contribute to multi-disciplinary, patient centred care.



Facilitate patient and carers to take an active role in care given.



Responsible for assessing and recognising emergencies in their specialty.



Able to interpret information and take appropriate action and to lead other to do so.



To undertake and promote practice sensitive to the needs of patients and families from multi- cultural backgrounds.



Communicate with clinicians as necessary.



Contribute to and support the work of colleagues in the Multi-Disciplinary Team.



Plan systems of nursing activity, which satisfy agreed standards of Local, Trust or National levels.



Ensure all medication is administered in accordance with the Trust Medicine Management policy.



Demonstrate the mandatory competencies of the Trust, attending all required mandatory updates.