Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to work within the Lung Clinical Nurse Specialist team.  Under direction from the Lead Lung Cancer Nurse Specialist you will assess, plan, implement and evaluate expert nursing care and provide support to lung cancer patients and their carers. The post holder will have continuing responsibility for the co-ordination and organisation of individual treatment programmes throughout the illness trajectory and work to develop communication across divisional and organisational boundaries.

Ø  Provide specialist nursing advice and psychological support to patients, carers and healthcare professionals.

Ø  Acts as a resource and contributes to the education and training of other healthcare professionals as required.

Ø  Contribute to service development, audit and research projects and help develop educational packages as needed.

***Preference will be given to internal Trust staff, as well as ‘Priority’ and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon who are able to display recent relevant experience as dictated by the Person Specification.***

Main duties of the job

·       Manage your own caseload of patients whilst working as part of the multi-disciplinary team

·       Attend MDT meetings

   Communicate highly sensitive and emotive condition related information to patients and relatives e.g terminal illness, bereavement.

·       Assess new patients in the clinical area utilising the holistic needs assessment tool to identify physical, psychological emotional, spiritual and cultural needs and developing a plan as needed.

·       Provide clinical advice and support to healthcare professional within and across organizational boundaries. 

·       Provide support for distressed patients/carers and bereaved relatives, identifying patients at risk and referring to appropriate agencies.

·       Maintain and update evidence based knowledge and skills

·       Undertake complex assessments and review of patients and carers.

·       Contribute to the development of specialist protocols and policies for specialist area of care 

2. General Responsibilities

·       Assist in developing in house specialist educational and training programmes

·       Operates on their own initiative whilst being aware of  the overall directorate aims and responsibilities.

·       Maintaining professional development

·       Contribute to clinical audit and development of knowledge within specialist filed of practice. 

Working for our organisation

We are a people business – where every member of staff matters and can make a difference. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Joining University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust means becoming part of a team of dedicated staff, who are committed to leading the way through innovation, clinical excellence and great customer care. The Trust has great opportunities for career development in a highly progressive working environment. We offer all of this in a vibrant, modern city with a historic reputation for adventure. PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL COMMUNICATION WILL BE ELECTRONIC, PLEASE CHECK YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT REGULARLY. If you have any issues with applying online and need additional support including reasonable adjustments with the application process please contact the recruitment manager for this post who will put you in touch with the recruitment team. We recognise that work life balance is important for our colleagues and so we invite requests from applicants around less than full time/flexible working for our advertised roles. Please contact the recruiting manager to discuss this prior to your application submission. We commit to giving this full consideration in each case. We encourage people from diverse backgrounds to apply for our roles, as diversity strengthens our teams. It is sometimes necessary to close vacancies before the closing date. If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted.