Job vacancy: Clinical Nurse Specialist Neuro-oncology, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London

Job summary

Main area: neuro-oncology
Grade: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 213-CAX-7177716-A

Employer: King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: King's College Hospital
Town: London
Salary: £54,320 - £60,981 per annum including HCA
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 03/06/2025 23:59

Clinical Nurse Specialist Neuro-oncology

Band 7

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1.8 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.

We encourage all our staff to have a healthy work/life balance. In doing so, you can apply for flexible working from the beginning of your employment. We offer a range of options which are designed to suit different circumstances and priorities in line with service requirements.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Job Summary:

To work as an advanced practitioner and effectively deliver an expert nursing service within the specialist area
To manage a caseload of patients/clients
To act as the key worker for a case load of patients
To ensure that patients and their families are fully informed and supported by providing clinical and social support
To assist in the development of evidence based clinical nursing practice in line with current research and guidelines
To establish clear lines of communication within the specialty team to ensure cohesive multidisciplinary management of patients
To link with healthcare teams in order to increase knowledge and facilitate the care of this group of people in the community.
To provide support to the associate nurse specialist.

Particular emphasis is put at Kings on the need to ensure that all staff recognize their responsibility to deliver services in a high quality, courteous, patient focused manner maintaining patient confidentiality at all times.

Main duties and responsibilities:

1. Clinical Practice

To assist in the delivery of an advanced specialist nursing service for people with specialist needs

To provide specialist nursing advice and support to patients, their families and other healthcare professionals following diagnosis and through treatment
To ensure continuity of a high standard of evidence based nursing care, assessing health, health related and nursing needs of patients, their families and other carers by identifying and initiating appropriate steps for effective care. This can include:

· Managing a patient caseload

· Ordering diagnostic tests

· Making and receiving referrals

· Admitting and discharging patients for specified conditions and within agreed protocols

· Facilitating outpatient clinics

· Delivering the nurse-led results clinic

· Participating in the delivery of the radiotherapy telephone follow up clinic

To accept responsibility for own patient caseload, ensuring all patients have an accurate plan of care, which reflects the assessment undertaken and incorporates the issues and recommendations made ensuring clear documentation in the patient’s records
To be actively involved in in-patient care, liaising with ward staff to ensure high quality nursing care
To attend out-patients, ensuring nurse consultation with all newly diagnosed patients
To follow-up patients as appropriate and ensure all relevant information is available to enable patients to make an informed choice about their treatment
To attend and present patient’s histories at the weekly MDT meetings ensuring all patients are represented
To feedback the MDT outcomes to the referrers with the MDT co-ordinator
To deliver a seamless service through the development of enhanced Multidisciplinary team (MDT) processes and communication
To participate in the identification and development of clinical protocols and strategies to enhance both the continuity and standard of specialist care whilst ensuring equity of access to the service
To participate in the annual review process of operational policies in accordance with national standards
To attend the quarterly service improvement meetings, participating where appropriate
To ensure all care is given in accordance with agreed protocols.
To work with key staff members to maintain nurse led pre-assessment/assessment and out patient follow-up services. Providing detailed baseline patient assessment and education and support to patients and their families
To regularly review those clinical notes of patients requiring imminent admission, ensuring all assessments, diagnostic investigation and test results are up-to-date and in place to ensure a smooth admission process
To liaise with the discharge coordinator and ward staff to ensure appropriate and timely discharge/follow-up arrangement in place for patients
To maintain a suitable mechanism for MDT referrals to the Clinical Nurse Specialists
To work with the MDT to develop, implement and evaluate integrated care pathways and systems of MDT documentation
To liaise with local community, social services, paramedics and voluntary organisations in order to develop existing services for clients, carers and health professional
To actively involve service users in providing feedback of their experience of the current service and suggestions for improvements.
To participate in the development of appropriate patient group directives to facilitate/enhance the discharge process
To participate in relevant fora at Care Group, Trust or PCG/PCT Level to represent the service perspective

Person specification

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Essential criteria

Relevant post-registration qualification
NMC Level 1 or Level 15 Registered Nurse

Desirable criteria

Advanced clinical assessment skills or willingness to develop these

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All staff have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and for ensuring they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.
Please note that the closing date is given as a guide. On occasion, we might close a vacancy early due to a high number of applications being received. You are advised to submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Jess La
Job title: Senior Neuro-oncology CNS
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 07929854244
Additional information: You can also contact Vicky Hurwitz Neuro-oncology Nurse consultant via [email protected]. We would love to see you for an informal visit so please do get in touch.

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