Job Description

Lead clinical care by managing a patient caseload providing expert assessment, planning, and evaluation of clinical practice. Assess individuals care needs, developing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care to meet the needs of patients within the clinical environment and outpatient setting. Undertake extended clinical skills and/or procedures to meet the needs of the individual service e.g. non-medical prescribing and/or clinical procedures (biopsies, scopes etc) Identify and assess patients physical, social and psychological needs to support the development of comprehensive holistic needs assessment and personalised care and support plans.



Support and lead the delivery of all personalised cancer care key metrics. Provide advice, support and symptom management for patients, carers and other health professionals within the scope of expected clinical competencies aligned with the ACCEND framework for enhanced or advanced level practice. Use advanced communication skills in listening and information-processing to communicate highly complex and sensitive information to patients and carers. Make judgements and respond to individuals complex needs and health concerns or situations which require analysis, interpretation and a range of care options to enable the initiation of nursing care interventions.



Be confident in acting as a patient advocate at all times by considering patients specific needs, preferences, priorities and circumstances to guide the care and treatment they are offered. Undertake nurse led clinics, ensuring patients have appropriate support and information (verbal and written) as well as an opportunity to discuss questions or concerns. Attend and participate in Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) meetings ensuring outcomes are communicated with patients, clinicians, and other relevant members of the MDT within a timely manner and via a communication channel of the patients choice. Coordinate the provision of services to patients throughout the cancer pathway ensuring continuity of care, aiding communication between internal and external MDTs and liaising with medical, surgical and oncology services.



Provide expert advice to patients and their families regarding their management plans and liaise as appropriate with the multi-disciplinary health care teams, including voluntary agencies and hospices. Utilise Advanced Communications Skills and Psychological Support Level 2 training in daily practice. Work collaboratively with key stakeholder to support the implementation of local, regional and national strategies and delivery of local and national targets. Meet and welcome service users, be proactive in establishing positive and professional communication with the public.



Lead in the development of information/health promotion/leaflet for patients, carers and/or other healthcare professionals ensuring the information provided is evidenced based. Monitor capacity to meet the demands of the service, pre-empting risk and escalating concerns identified. Organise and plan own caseload activity to meet the needs of the patients and demands of the service. If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of 54.90.



This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of 16.