Breast Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist
- Employer
- Finegreen
- Location
- Harlow
- Salary
- Competitive
- Closing date
- 25 Sep 2024
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- Sector
- Acute Trust
- Job Type
- Contract
- Category
- Nursing
Job Details
You must hold significant Breast care nursing, Breast oncology, and metastatic breast oncology experience to be considered for this specialist role.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Providing expert advice and support to patients with breast cancer and their families, guiding them from diagnosis through all stages of treatment and follow up care;
- managing a personal caseload, coordinating care, and ensuring effective communication with all professionals involved in the patient's journey;
- Playing a crucial role in delivering specialist knowledge and education to staff and patients and facilitate a seamless patient pathway;
- Communicating and working in partnership with all members of the MDTs to ensure a seamless pathway of care for patients from diagnosis through treatment and follow up care;
- Being an autonomous practitioner and managing own caseload and work with colleagues to provide the highest possible standards of care for patients diagnosed with Breast cancer;
- Supporting and co-ordinating patient’s / family / carer from diagnosis onwards through all stages of their disease and treatment modalities and utilise excellent communication skills to complete appropriate onward referrals for your cohort of patients;
- Acting as point of contact and offering to be the Breast keyworker’ for patients and their families and carer;
- Ensuring the Macmillan Holistic Needs Assessments and Care Plans are completed for all patients at key points of their cancer treatment pathway, requiring liaising with and ensure referral and appropriate signposting onto allied health professionals and services as required;
- Supporting and assessing Breast cancer in patients and liaise with ward staff and Consultants as deemed appropriate and provide a seamless approach to communication to enhance the patient’s pathway and experience;
- Being competent in managing your own timetable and caseload, managing any nurse led clinics with minimal supervision from the Breast consultants;
- Current registration with the NMC, with relevant post registration qualification in
- Breast care, oncology, or palliative care;
- Hold significant experience working within Oncology demonstrated by recent employment within the NHS or wider UK health services;
- A thorough understanding of the issues faced by cancer patients, families, and carers, along with their role in service development;
- Experience and understanding of the key worker role in cancer care and hold working knowledge of the Cancer Reform Strategy;
Company
Put simply, we help our clients to recruit the best possible people to lead, manage and direct their organisations. Since launching in 2005 we have become an award winning, market-leading consultancy focusing on both public and private sector Healthcare recruitment.
Leadership skills have rarely been at such a premium - as organisations across both public and private sectors attempt to improve services and standards at a time of widespread change and unprecedented financial constraints.
Like other leading executive recruiters, Finegreen has developed a pool of talent built up over many years, along with established networks, to ensure that right-match candidates get to hear about relevant positions. Where Finegreen differs from many others, is in its willingness to spend quality time with clients - to gain an in-depth knowledge of roles being filled and their importance to an organisation.
Over the last 17 years in the Healthcare market, Finegreen has developed into a Virgin Fast Track top 100 company - and was voted Recruiter of the Year at the Health Investor Awards, Top small to medium sized business at the Best Business Awards, and featured in Recruiter’s Top 10 Public Sector Recruitment providers.
- Website
- http://www.finegreen.co.uk/
- Telephone
- 0345 130 4006
- Location
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Finegreen
Manchester
Lancashire
M12 6JH
United Kingdom
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