Job summary
- Main area
- Specialist Nurse Gynaecology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-7865967GH
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wansbeck General Hospital
- Town
- Ashington
- Salary
- £49,387 - £56,515 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Nurse Gynaecology/Oncology
NHS AfC: Band 7
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We work closely with Kids First Nurseries that are based within our trust grounds at Wansbeck, North Tyneside and Hexham hospitals to care for our Trust family's children, they offer care for children from 6 weeks old up to 4 years. There are a number of funding options run by the government to help working parents, including Early Years Funding and Tax Free Childcare.
Flexible working offers choice in where, when, and how we work, ensuring patients remain at the heart of all we do. It’s open to everyone, and we aim to find solutions that work for both you and the organisation. All arrangements must be reasonable and balanced to maintain safe and effective patient care.
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
Job overview
To work in collaboration with the Consultant Gynaecologist responsible for Gynaecological Malignancies to provide a high quality service for patients with Gynaecological malignancy.
To provide hospital and community care/support/counselling for patients with a malignant diagnosis providing ongoing support throughout the patients cancer journey.
To carry continuing responsibility for own case load of patients, including setting standards of care, assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of care.
Run own nurse led clinics for patients with a gynaecological cancer, referring patients to appropriate clinicians as necessary.
To provide specialist education and training to other members of the MDT, to facilitate the Gynaecology cancer MDT
To liaise with members of the northern Gynaecological Oncology Centre if patients are referred with a suspected or diagnosed malignancy to facilitate co-ordinated care
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
"Please note, for Secondment roles before an application is submitted, please ensure you have received the appropriate approval and completed documentation required beforehand, as this may delay the process if an offer was to be made."
Main duties of the job
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
To provide the lead in nursing care to a caseload of patients, to undertake research and lead clinical audit in own area, to work autonomously. To provide nursing care at an advanced level . Participate as a member of the MDT and to provide holistic care to patients through initial and ongoing assessment
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Act as a key worker for patients with gynaecological cancers, providing continuity of care and emotional support.
Deliver specialist nursing interventions across the cancer pathway including diagnosis, treatment, follow-up, and palliative care.
Participate in and contribute to MDT meetings, ensuring patient needs and preferences are represented.
Provide expert advice and education to patients, carers, and healthcare professionals.
Support the implementation of national guidelines
Lead or contribute to audits, service evaluations, and quality improvement projects.
Maintain accurate and timely documentation in line with Trust policies.
Participate in the development and delivery of training and education for staff.
Work collaboratively with other cancer nurse specialists and services across the Trust.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- 1st Level live NMC required Registered Nurse
- Registered Mentor
- PP126/127 } or equivalent D32/33 }
- D32/33
- Basic counselling skills
Desirable criteria
- Degree in relevant subject
Experiance
Essential criteria
- Evidence of practice development
- Evidence of innovation in practice
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
- Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Laura Chambers
- Job title
- Operational Services Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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