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Job overview

The Peritoneal Malignancy Institute Basingstoke is a national treatment centre where patients with peritoneal malignancy can be treated with cytoreduction and Heated Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC). The service is based at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust on the Basingstoke site. 

The Peritoneal Malignancy Institute is one of the highest volume international centres and one of only two centres in England providing treatment for Pseudomyxoma peritonei. The service therefore provides advice and treatment for patients across England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.

As a member of the Clinical Nurse Specialist team you will develop strong relationships with your patients and their carers, offering high level care and expert advice to support them through their diagnosis, treatment and recovery. You will have a key role within the MDT, coordinating the patient pathway, providing specialist input into the MDT and new referral meetings and acting as a keyworker for patients. You will develop skills to enable you to provide expert advice to local teams offering support, information and advice to enhance collaborative working on a national basis.

Main duties of the job

• Assess and meet the complex information needs of patients with Peritoneal Malignancy from diagnosis, investigation, treatment and follow-up
• Provide inpatient care, both pre and post operatively for patients with peritoneal malignancy.
• Outpatient consultations with the consultant which address physical, social and psychological issues related to peritoneal malignancy and the treatment pathway proposed
• Attendance and active participation in SMDT
• To provide an open access advisory service to patients, relatives, carers and professionals
• Provision of telephone follow-up service to reduce the need for outpatient follow up and unnecessary presentation and admission into emergency care
• Development of patient information
• To present at events/conferences to raise awareness of peritoneal malignancy.
• To provide support and mentorship to colleagues
• To co-ordinate the patient care pathway, liaising with referring teams to ensure continuity of care
• Daily rounds by a member of the CNS team for inpatient support
• Provide expert advice to professionals in other Trusts for the care of patients with peritoneal malignancy
• Undertake service reviews to ensure continual improvements are made, according to patient feedback and need

Working for our organisation

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.