Job overview

The Surgical Clinical Care group is looking to recruit a dedicated and highly skilled Band 7 Urology Nurse specialist to support our cancer pathway.

You would be an experienced band 6/7 acting within your professional boundaries and willing to develop your skills. As a Urology CNS you will play a vital role in delivering specialised nursing care to patients with Urological Cancers.

Your expertise will contribute to the high quality care and positive patient experience. You must have excellent communication skills both verbally and in writing. you would be proactive in ensuring that your clinical expertise is up to date to contribute as a role model to the service. You will be a member of the Trust's Urology team and undertake the role of the CNS supporting and facilitating the patients journey. You would be working in a collaborative manner, providing clear decision making skills in consultation with medical and nursing staff. You will ensure that they protect and promote patient safety at all times. You would effectively liaise with multidisciplinary teams and service maintaining a good rapport to ensure excellent working relationships are maintained with other departments. Demonstrate personal strength and effectiveness with professional behaviour under stressful and difficult situations. 

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work as an integral member of the Multidisciplinary Team within Barking Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust. The post holder will acknowledge and provide the overall responsibility for the provision of specialist nursing advice and support to patients and families, In-patient and out-patient, throughout their care pathway.

Working for our organisation

We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with. 

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission. 

We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care. 

We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance. 

We run a Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.  

The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.