Lead Cancer Nurse

NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Liverpool is seeking an experienced Lead Cancer Nurse. The role involves improving the quality of cancer care by leading a team and implementing best practices. Candidates should hold a clinical qualification with leadership experience and a commitment to high standards of patient care.

Qualifications

• Clinical Professional Qualification with appropriate registration.
• Evidence of participation in audit and research.
• Demonstrable relevant experience within the specialty.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Cancer CNSs in each specialty.
• Facilitate standards of cancer nursing care.
• Deliver the Cancer Improvement Programme.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Leadership skills

Basic IT skills

Education

Clinical Professional Qualification Degree

MSc Advanced Clinical Practice

Teaching and assessing qualification

Job description

Band 8a

Main area: Nursing

Grade: Band 8a

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Job ref: 287-CEF-129-25-A

Department name: LUH - 1 General Staffing (AFC posts)

Site: Aintree

Town: Fazakerley

Salary: £55,690 - £62,682 per annum

Salary period: Yearly

Job Overview

An experienced, motivated and independently minded clinical manager who is able to act on their own initiative, adopting values led 'can do' leadership style within a climate of constant change and uncertainty to support the strategic direction of quality care and compassion of the nursing/AHP service across the organisation.

Reporting to the Associate Director of Nursing, the post holder is expected to function at a senior level within the Cancer Team, proactively leading and providing solutions to resolve complex issues, in accordance with professional standards, agreed Trust objectives, targets, quality standards and resource constraints.

The post holder will possess leadership skills to deal competently with complex issues in ensuring that professional standards and policy are upheld, implemented and performance managed.

The Lead Cancer Nurse will improve the quality of health care provision for patients with cancer and their families throughout the cancer and palliative care journey by working with patients and staff and play a key role in the integration of cancer care across organisational boundaries.

Main duties of the job

• Work as part of the Corporate Cancer Services Team to deliver relevant aspects of the Cancer Improvement Programme pertaining to Cancer Patient Experience and Cancer CNS/AHP workforce identifying opportunities for service redesign, developing recommendations to improve cancer pathways and ensuring best practice is shared across clinical teams
• Act as Professional Lead to the Cancer CNSs in each specialty leading the Personalised Care portfolio, including national directives to deliver pre-habilitation, Living With and Beyond Cancer initiatives and personalised stratified follow up pathways
• Be a visible nursing leader, facilitating excellent standards of cancer nursing care, ensuring a high quality and efficient approach to service delivery, including remaining calm, controlled and solution focused in times of difficulty
• Providing strategic oversight and operational managerial support for the information centres, in conjunction with the information centre manager
• Lead on the continued delivery of the highest possible patient reported experience of care for those affected by cancer, as demonstrated in the National Cancer Patient Experience Survey through the implementation of local action plans

Person specification

Qualifications

• Clinical Professional Qualification. Degree level with appropriate registration
• MSc Advanced Clinical Practice (ACP) or started the MSc ACP pathway/programme and committed to completing within an agreed time frame
• Teaching and assessing qualification
• Relevant post registration qualification/equivalent
• Prescriber
• Evidence of participation in audit and research

Experience

• Demonstrable relevant experience within the speciality
• Evidence of effective management
• Evidence of effective leadership skills
• Evidence of staff development and can demonstrate knowledge regarding provision and development of education programmes
• Evidence of change management
• Evidence of application of current clinical service issues and developments

Knowledge

• Understanding and application of healthcare governance
• Has an up-to-date Advanced Clinical Practice portfolio

Skills

• Excellent communication skills
• Committed to delivering high standards of patient care
• Basic IT skills, including e-mail and word processing

Other

• Supportive of colleagues
• Enthusiastic and motivated with the ability to motivate the team
• High level of personal and professional credibility
• Act as role model for staff

The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment.

The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community.