Clinical Nurse Specialist - Metastatic Breast CancerNHS

Job summary

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The Metastatic Breast Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist is responsible for the provisions of the coordination of patient care across Merseyside, which includes providing expert clinical leadership, specialist advice to manage the care of patients with metastatic breast cancer.

They will act as a role model demonstrating high standards of care and providing clinical leadership to others. They will develop patient pathways and be responsible for developing the nursing service, while working with the multidisciplinary team to ensure that services complies with national standards.

The role is key in offering patients and families the skills of a clinical nurse specialist in symptom control, emotional and spiritual care. Deliver evidence based individualised patient care according to patient's changing health care needs, through holistic needs assessment (HNA). To provide expert knowledge and advice in own specialist area, ensuring maintenance of clinical excellence underpinned by evidence-based practice.

This is a 22.5 hr post based at CCC-Wirral with flexibility based on job plan and service need to attend other clinics within the CCC service

Main duties of the job

The CNS will provide: o Leadership o Innovation o Mastery o Excellence (clinical)

The post holder will take a lead role in monitoring and improving the standards of care through supervision of practise, clinical audit, developing and leading practise, contributing to the research teaching and support of professional colleagues.

The post holder will be responsible for providing complex specialist clinical advice and support to patients, families, relatives, public and NHS Professionals internal and external to the Trust.

The post holder will work autonomously and develop collaborative relationships with others. They will offer advice, support and education to clinical teams across the trust and cancer network.

Job description

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details about this exciting role on offer at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre.

About us

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's leading cancer centres providing highly specialist cancer care to a population of 2.4m people across Cheshire and Merseyside, and the surrounding areas, including North Wales and the Isle of Man.

Our vision is to not only maintain this level of commitment to excellence but to work with our academic and healthcare partners across the region to ensure care, treatment and patient outcomes continuously improve in the future. We are very proud of all our expert and loyal staff and we welcome people who share the collective aim of delivering excellence in everything that we do.

Our values represent who we are and what we believe in. They define how we act to deliver the best possible care for our patients and shape The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre as a great place to work.

We are -

• Kind
• Empowered
• Responsible
• Inclusive