Macmillan Lung Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist

Ashton under Lyne Source: WhatJobs

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To develop leadership, innovation and clinical excellence in the field of lung cancer nursing. To collaborate with the Lead Nurse and multidisciplinary team to deliver a lung cancer nursing service which will support patients and families throughout the course of their illness. This would include symptom control, provision of information, acting as key worker, first point of contact for the lung multi-disciplinary teams and providing expert advice. To provide a supportive proactive service which is responsive to the needs of patients and families. The post holder should be proactive in devising innovative service developments to improve patient care and be responsible for implementing those changes.

To assist in the provision of professional and clinical leadership and expertise in the care of the patient with cancer, acting as a resource to provide information and support to patients, carers and staff.
To liaise effectively with all members of the multidisciplinary team to achieve a seamless specialist service.
To ensure that every patient has a plan of care and liase with other teams to ensure that this is not compromised.
To lead and contribute to the creation of patient information
To provide formal and informal training and education within specialist area
To lead and contribute to the development of clinical guidelines and policies both internally and externally.
To attend the Cancer CNS forums.
Support health and well being events and initiatives to support patients to live with their disease.
To act as a core member of the multidisciplinary meetings, contributing to discussion and acting as a patient advocate.

Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside & Glossop. We provide a range of services both within the hospital and across our community for both adults and children. Our vision is to improve health outcomes for our population and influence wider determinants of health through collaboration with our health & care partners. We have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate:

Compassion
Accountability
Respect
Excellence

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

Benefits include;