Thoracic Clinical Nurse Specialist

Barts Health NHS Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 39,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in Greater London is seeking an experienced Thoracic Clinical Nurse Specialist to join the thoracic surgery team. This role involves managing a patient caseload and providing high-quality, patient-centred care. The successful candidate will support service development and enhance patient experiences through expert care coordination. Candidates must hold a degree as an RN, have advanced clinical skills in thoracic care, and demonstrate a commitment to continuous professional development.

Qualifications

• Demonstrates up to date knowledge and expertise in the specialty.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Extensive post registration experience in a specialist setting.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality, patient-centred care to thoracic surgery patients.
• Manage a patient caseload and provide specialist support.
• Participate in service development, quality and safety initiatives.

Skills

Advanced clinical skills in thoracic surgical care

Diagnostics skills

Ability to manage patients with complex needs

Ability to work within a team effectively

Positive attitude and ability to work under pressure

Education

Degree level RN

Relevant master's Level or equivalent

Post registration course in cardiothoracic/oncology

Job description

Thorax Centre, St. Bartholomew's Hospital An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced nurse to join the thoracic surgery team at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. This role offers the opportunity contribute to the expansion of specialist services following the recent commissioning of the national pectus service; and supporting the lung cancer and lung volume reduction surgical pathways.

We are seeking an individual with a strong clinical background and deep understanding of thoracic patient care. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing nursing expertise across various clinical settings, including outpatients while supporting patients and their families from through treatment and follow up.

The ideal candidate will have exceptional organisational skills, the confidence in working collaboratively with colleagues at all levels and across professional groups, and the ability to work independently. The clinical nurse specialist role provides a great opportunity to manage a patient caseload while also contributing to service development, education, quality improvement, audits and research projects.

Main duties of the job

The Thoracic Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) plays a crucial role within the multi professional team, serving as an expert practitioner who delivers high quality, patient centred care to patients undergoing thoracic surgery in the Thorax Centre, St.Bartholomew's Hospital.

This role involves providing clinical care in line with nationalstandards and the post holder will play an active part in service development, quality and safety initiatives, audit and research. The post holder will manage a patient case load, providing specialist support across the pre and post operative patient pathways.

The CNS will work to enhance the experiences of the patient, their family, or carers by offering expert support and coordinating care throughout the patients' journey. This roleincludes participating in the organisation and running of clinics supporting the lung cancer post op follow up clinic, the national pectus service and lung volume reduction service,working collaboratively as an experienced member of the thoracic and respiratory team.A minimum of 50% of time must be spent in clinical practice.

About us

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Degree level RN
• Post registration course or experience in cardiothoracic /oncology
• Leadership/management course
• Relevant master's Level or equivalent or working towards a Masters
• Advanced skills in physical assessment
• ILS

Experience

• Extensive post registration experience in specialist setting.
• Evidence of specialist thoracic knowledge
• Experience in team management
• Experience in co-ordinating and delivering teaching and training.
• Able to demonstrate theoretical and clinical knowledge and skills.
• Experience in prioritising and managing own caseload.
• Experience in managing challenging situations.
• Evidence of participation in quality improvement projects.
• Experience in audit
• Experience of applying research

Knowledge

• Demonstrates up to date knowledge and expertise in the speciality.
• Knowledge of the key professional issues and NMC guidelines relating to professional practice
• Evidence of being able to work across organisational boundaries
• Experience of applying research evidence to clinical practice.

Skills

• Advanced clinical skills in thoracic surgical care
• Diagnostics skills and the ability to interpret investigations and results.
• Ability to recognise and manage deteriorating patients.
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Demonstrates a clear vision of the role and service.
• Ability to initiate, sustain and evaluate change.
• Ability to work within a team effectively.
• Ability to manage own workload and work to agreed period.
• Positive attitude and ability to work under pressure
• Ability to adapt to changing workload.
• Ability to manage patients with complex needs.

Other

• Demonstrates understanding of relevant national strategy / policy and how this relates to the service
• Commitment to maintain own fitness for practice through maintaining a personal profile of competencies (portfolio)
• Understanding of appropriate health and safety legislation
• Understanding of equal opportunities

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.