Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Oncology
- Grade
- BAND 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 18 months (Secondment also available)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (flexibly to meet the requirement of the service)
- Job ref
- 356-25-7214783
- Employer
- Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Castle Hill Hospital
- Town
- Cottingham
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Immuno-Oncology Lead Clinical Nurse Specialist
BAND 7
Job overview
The principal role of the post holder is to work within a high-quality specialist service to meet the needs of patients receiving immunotherapy treatments.
This will involve continuously developing patient pathways for assessing, implementing, and managing care for this patient group.
The post holder will provide specialist knowledge and information resources for patients, their carers, and colleagues within the multidisciplinary team. The team will also support the physical, emotional, psychological, social, and spiritual needs of patients receiving immunotherapy as part of their cancer treatment.
The role will incorporate assessing staff educational needs and formulating and delivering education programmes to multidisciplinary post-holders. The post-holder will inform of service development needs and initiate and implement service development and delivery.
The role will provide a key link enhancing communication and continuity of care between teams and will foster good working relationships with all the clinical teams involved in the care of this group of patients.
This role is either a fixed term or a secondment if current managers approve.
Main duties of the job
- To participate in a patient-timed pathway within a specialist care programme.
• To provide a specialist resource for advice and information on immunotherapy for patients, families and staff, underpinned by a sound theoretical knowledge base.
• Provide a holistic assessment of the patient with cancer and their families using clinical judgement, specialist knowledge and excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Assessing the needs of individual patients and considering different options to provide a holistic, complex care package.
• To work within a multi-disciplinary approach to managing patients on immunotherapy who require specialist intervention.
- To play a leading role in the service developments within the multi-disciplinary team.
• To develop and maintain agreed clinical standards of care for patients receiving immunotherapy..
• To coordinate the auditing of care to provide a high-quality, needs-led, patient-focused service.
• To work within the SACT and Acute Oncology service and with clinical specialist teams to develop effective two way communication pathways.
• Coordinate the patient coordination between Humber Health Partnership sites and any external tertiary cancer centre to provide a seamless service.
Working for our organisation
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description, Person Specification and Organisation Chart for further details regarding this vacancy opportunity.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled Worker Visa sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. You can determine the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship for the post by assessing your circumstances against the criteria specified on the gov.uk website.
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse and/or Registered Midwife
- Current registration with NMCFirst level degree or equivalent level of experience
- Teaching experience
- Experience within a SACT team
Knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
- Highly developed Interpersonal and communication skills. , providing information to senior managers, reassurance to staff and patients/carers
- Excellent Presentation skills
- Evidence of effective working relationships
- Demonstrable leadership and management skills
Desirable criteria
- experience in cancer care
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Ann-Marie Tyrer
- Job title
- Deputy Nurse Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01482 461185
- Additional information
Please email Ann-Marie Tyrer for further information. Email [email protected]
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