Lung Cancer Specialist Nurse, Band 6

Lung Cancer Specialist Nurse, Band 6 (30 hours a week)

This is an opportunity to develop your clinical & professional practice as a senior nurse within the lung cancer team across Gloucester Hospitals. You will work as a core member of the multidisciplinary team to the highest standard of specialist supportive care managing patients throughout their lung cancer pathway.

The post holder will also support the personalised cancer care agenda and develop risk stratified pathways in order to continue the development and improvement of cancer care provision that is received by our patients, their families and carers.

The proposed interview date is: 14th October

The post holder should demonstrate well-developed interpersonal, communication, negotiating and influencing skills demonstrated through experience of working in complex and demanding environments.

Providing advice, support and leadership within clinical teams.

Deliver against departmental and service objectives, achieving quality outcomes and prioritising own workload.

Collect and analyse data from various sources to assess impact of service to look for innovative ways of developing and managing the service more effectively such as digital triage and patient communication.

To attend, in departmental service meetings to ensure involvement in decision making processes.

Attending and participating in the lung MDT meetings ensuring the outcomes are communicated with patients/clinicians in a timely manner.

To use excellent prioritising and time management skills to meet the unpredictable and conflicting needs of the role.

Contribute to the development of speciality protocols and guidelines for a nurse-led service. Autonomously run nurse-led clinics ensuring patients have appropriate, timely clinical and practical information and support.

Ensuring patient physical symptoms and concerns are actioned, liaising with the MDT as appropriate.

Evaluate and analyse clinical problems using their clinical knowledge, seeking out and applying relevant evidence, enhanced interpretation of clinical investigations, interventions and skills to make clinical decisions.