Job overview

• Band 6 Secondary Lung Cancer Nurse Specialist
• Full Time

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Nurse Specialist Metastatic Lung CNS to work across both RSUH and County Hospitals.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Staff Nurse to join our team to take on this specialist nursing role working as a key member within the Breast multidisciplinary team.

Main duties of the job

Work as an effective team member and demonstrate excellent communication skills between the multidisciplinary teams both in hospital and in the wider community.

To attend and participate in the weekly Lung multi-disciplinary team meeting.

Have the opportunity to attend meetings and National conferences as well as local Living With and Beyond Cancer meetings and Macmillan Lead Cancer Nurse meetings.

To communicate effectively, with patients and their families/carers, over a range of highly sensitive and emotional issues.

Fulfil the role of key worker, as a team, being a point of contact for the patients and work as patient advocate with the MDT.

To support staff in the delivery of quality patient focused care.

Provide holistic needs assessment, at time period of diagnosis and treatment planning and any other point of the patient journey and record it on the Somerset system.

Provide information about local generic Health and Well-being sessions and support groups.

Provide on-going support for all people with metastatic breast cancer.

Act as a role model.

You will have to be adaptable and flexible in order to meet the challenges and demand of this role.

Working for our organisation

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential. 

UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.

At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.