Lead Cancer Nurse

Salisbury Nhs Foundation Trust; Southampton; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in the UK seeks a Lead Cancer Nurse to enhance the quality of cancer care. This role involves overseeing cancer services, ensuring equitable care, and leading patient engagement initiatives. Candidates should have substantial experience in cancer nursing, strong professional oversight skills, and the ability to develop clinical expertise within teams. This position also involves participating in regional forums to align with best practices. Benefits include NHS discounts and flexible working options.

Benefits

NHS discounts

Generous pension scheme

Minimum of 35 days paid holiday

Qualifications

• Experience in cancer nursing or related fields.
• Ability to oversee and develop clinical teams effectively.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and improve cancer services across the organization.
• Support the Trust's cancer strategy and programs.
• Engage with regional forums for best practices.

Skills

Patient experience focus

Professional oversight

Building professional relationships

Knowledge of cancer services

Job description

Overview

The Lead Cancer Nurse will play a crucial role within Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust in terms of improving the outcome and experience of people whose lives are affected by cancer. The post holder will work closely with the Associate Medical Director for Cancer Transformation, Lead Cancer AHP and Cancer Services Manager to oversee, develop and continually improve cancer services across the organisation. The post holder will have professional oversight of the specialist nursing workforce for cancer, ensuring there is equity in provision for cancer patients across the organisation as well as ongoing development of expertise within the clinical teams.

Support the delivery of the Trust's cancer strategy, supporting the delivery of the Personalised Care and Support agenda, as well as lead on the development and roll out of the existing Pre-habilitation programme for cancer patients. The post holder will be required to have a focus on patient experience and engagement, as well as raising the awareness of inequalities in cancer care.

The Lead Cancer Nurse will be required to participate in forums at a regional level across the Integrated Care System and both the Wessex and SWAG Cancer Alliances, to ensure the Trust is in line with best practice and delivering faster diagnosis and treatment for cancer patients in our community. There will be an expectation that the post holder builds strong professional relationships across both cancer alliance systems.

The Lead Cancer Nurse will also be required to lead on submissions to the Quality Surveillance Team Peer Review process and participate in the internal validation process, as well as lead on the response and actions arising from patient experience surveys, including the National Cancer Experience Survey. When Cancer/Cancer Care is referred to in this JD it is referring to Cancer Services, Oncology and Haematology.

Responsibilities

• Oversee, develop and continually improve cancer services across the organisation in collaboration with the Associate Medical Director for Cancer Transformation, Lead Cancer AHP and Cancer Services Manager.
• Provide professional oversight of the specialist nursing workforce for cancer and ensure equity in provision for cancer patients across the organisation, with ongoing development of expertise within clinical teams.
• Support the delivery of the Trust's cancer strategy and the Personalised Care and Support agenda; lead on the development and roll out of the Pre-habilitation programme for cancer patients.
• Maintain a focus on patient experience and engagement and raise awareness of inequalities in cancer care.
• Participate in regional forums across the Integrated Care System and the Wessex and SWAG Cancer Alliances to align with best practice and enable faster diagnosis and treatment.
• Build and maintain strong professional relationships across cancer alliance systems.
• Lead on submissions to the Quality Surveillance Team Peer Review process and participate in the internal validation process.
• Lead on responses and actions arising from patient experience surveys, including the National Cancer Experience Survey.
• Interpret and apply references to Cancer/Cancer Care as relating to Cancer Services, Oncology and Haematology.

Important notes

Please note - Due to recent changes in UK immigration and visa rules applicants who do not currently have the right to work in the UK may not be considered. Candidates requiring sponsorship (or will need sponsorship at the end of a current visa e.g., those with graduate visas) should review the eligibility criteria on the gov.uk website before applying.

Please be advised that this vacancy may close earlier than stated if we receive a large number of applications. We will not accept any applications or queries via agencies, under any circumstances.

Other information

SEASONAL RESPIRATORY VACCINATIONS — We continue to encourage and support our staff to participate in the seasonal respiratory vaccination programme in order to protect themselves, colleagues and their patients.

GETTING TO WORK — We offer parking on site at Salisbury District Hospital, a daily charge applies. We encourage our staff to utilise other green methods of getting to work such as cycling or walking where possible, and our Trust is well connected through the bus services to the city centre and other areas.

Equality and other information

OUR COMMITMENT TO EQUALITY — We are committed to making Salisbury an inclusive and welcoming place for every single staff member, regardless of who they are and where they come from. Equality sits at the heart of everything we do, and we ensure that all employees have equal opportunity to develop, to apply for promotions and to work flexibly. The Trust actively promotes a work environment free from harassment and discrimination and provides training for staff to ensure this happens. We also closely monitor recruitment activity, training, development and employment practices to ensure equality of practice with regard to race, colour, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, disability, marital status and age.

OTHER INFORMATION — If this job requires you to have DBS check to enable you to properly fulfil the requirements of the job, on appointment, you will be required to repay the cost of obtaining a DBS check and this amount will be reclaimed in instalments from your salary. Many staff use the DBS update service at a cost of £16 per annum but you need to sign up for this via their website.

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Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we\'re driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff. We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme. We offer excellent benefits that help make SDH a great place to work. Take a look at our Employee Value Proposition (EVP) for more detailed information.