Urology Cancer Nurse Specialist Prostate Cancer (PSA Tracker)

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Job summary

A leading NHS trust is seeking a Urology Cancer Nurse Specialist to join their team in Paignton. This role involves providing specialized care to patients with prostate cancer, supporting them through monitoring and treatment, and collaborating with a dedicated multidisciplinary team to enhance patient outcomes.

Qualifications

• Experience in urology nursing and cancer care.
• Strong communication and clinical judgment skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Nurse Specialist and Consultant to provide patient care.
• Support patients in remote prostate cancer monitoring.
• Participate in MDT meetings to plan patient care.

Skills

Knowledge of Prostate cancer pathway

Urology nursing knowledge/experience

Job description

Employer Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Urology Outpatient Department, Paignton Health & Wellbeing Centre, TQ3 3AG Town Paignton Salary £37,338 - £44,962 pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 04/06/2025 23:59

Urology Cancer Nurse Specialist Prostate Cancer (PSA Tracker)

NHS AfC: Band 6

Job overview

The urology outpatient service sees both cancer and benign patients in the outpatient setting, running nurse and consultant led procedure and investigation clinics daily. We offer support and advice to patients and other professionals within the acute and community setting and work alongside other departments to enhance the patient’s pathway of care.

The urology team is a small, friendly team that is currently across multiple sites with the main outpatient clinics based in Paignton. We are a supportive team committed to providing our patients an excellent standard of care. We are committed to service improvement and staff development through education and training, helping staff to realise their true potential.

We work closely with other departments within the trust striving to provide seamless care to our patient population.

The Urology Cancer Nurse Specialist Prostate Cancer (PSA Tracker) will be based within the Urology Cancer nursing Team. This role involves being part of the PSA tracker team who are responsible for the running the PSA tracker surveillance programme and supporting patients and their families.

You will have direct contact with patients, make clinical decisions based on test results and regularly take part in the MDT meetings to plan patient care.

Main duties of the job

• Work collaboratively with Nurse Specialist and Consultant to provide specialist advice and clinical practice to patients within the urological outpatient setting and enabling optimum quality of life.
• To work autonomously as a specialist resource for urology patients with benign and cancer conditions, their carer’s and other professionals.
• Staff in setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care to meet National Guidelines.
• Assesses patients, pans and implements care.
• Support patients and their families on remote prostate cancer tracker monitoring system (PSA Tracker) ensuring appropriate care, monitoring and seamless monitoring and treatment.

Working for our organisation

We actively support peoples’ rights to have their voice heard in decisions about how their needs are met.

We value everyone’s opinion and experience.

Compassion

We show empathy and kindness to every person.

Improving lives

We strive to provide excellent, innovative services that help people to live their lives to the full.

Working together for people

We work in partnership to achieve the best possible outcomes for our communities.

Commitment to quality of care

We aim to provide the highest quality of care by listening to and acting on feedback and using our resources effectively.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

a. Work collaboratively with Nurse Specialist and Consultant to provide specialist advice and clinical practice to patients within the urological outpatient setting and enabling optimum quality of life.

b. To work autonomously as a specialist resource for urology patients with benign and cancer conditions, their carer’s and other professionals.

c. Staff in setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care to meet National Guidelines.

d. Assesses patients, pans and implements care.

e. Support patients and their families on remote prostate cancer tracker monitoring system (PSA Tracker) ensuring appropriate care, monitoring and seamless monitoring and treatment.

DIMENSIONS

· Budgetary awareness, contributing to business planning.

· Provision of a high quality individual service to a wide range of urology patients numbering approximately 2000 per annum, on an outpatient basis.

· In addition, providing ongoing support for cancer patients and their holistic needs.

· Provide training, supervision and support to junior staff working in the urology clinic.

PRIMARY DUTIES AND AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

Clinical:

· Work as an expert practitioner by assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating the specialist nursing interventions of patients requiring urological investigations, monitoring and treatments as part of the Prostate PSA Tracker population. Current patient population 2500 approx.

· Provide expert advice to clinical staff on urological issues.

· To act as the patients advocate when required and provide expert advice and comprehensive information, both written and verbal, on treatment options to enable patients to make an informed choice.

· Establish and maintain coordination of care for patients throughout diagnosis, planning, treatment and follow-up, liaising with all other service providers to ensure a smooth pathway.

· Acts as a keyworker for a clinical case load of patients under supervision, working to proactively manage care and provide easy access for ongoing support for families and carers.

· Utilise assessment tools such as the HNA to assess and plan patients’ needs

· The provision of nurse led clinics for assessment and cancer follow-up, initiating investigations and procedures, making recommendations for treatment and referring to other agencies or discharging as appropriate.

· Provide nurse led assessment and treatment clinics, treatments, catheterisations, flow assessments and providing specialist Urological advice and information when required.

· Work autonomously in providing ongoing support for a large number of cancer patients who have open access to the urology specialist nurse service, including patients awaiting results, those newly diagnosed with urological cancer and others with advanced disease.

· Provide patient care as part of the MDT, liaising and informing other team members of patients care, treatments and needs.

· To offer support, counselling, and follow-up to patients awaiting results and those newly diagnosed with urological cancer including communicating highly sensitive information to patients and their carers.

· Work collaboratively with the medical teams undertaking daily assessment of inpatient and outpatients requiring close review as appropriate, report to medical teams and findings that require further interventions. Document interventions/instructions in the medical notes.

· Abide by legal requirements, statutory rules and local policies relating to nursing care and procedures, safeguarding the patients’ best interest

· Promotes self-management, undertaking risk stratifications to determine those who can self-manage, following education, those who will need support to self-manage and those who will require face to face support in order to support people with their conditions.

· Promote the ‘Living well and beyond cancer’ initiative, encouraging patients with health and lifestyle information and improvements. Develop and support service improvement strategies to deliver this survivorship initiative within National Cancer strategies.

Key Results

· To be responsible for the organisation of clinic time and to prioritise clinic activity unsupervised, whilst being accountable for own professional actions.

· To contribute to Clinical Governance framework including risk assessment of the clinic environment, including incident reporting and bench marking, initiating action plans as required to close the loop.

· To monitor outcomes and collect data using computer systems in order to compile relevant statistics to aid in the specialist nursing contribution to service planning.

· To manage the workload flexibly, adjusting plans as necessary in order to meet changing patient and service needs.

· To represent the urology specialist nursing service at local and national meetings such as Cancer Support Team, Peninsula Cancer Network and Forum for Urology Nurses South West.

· Support and encourage collaboration with organisations and charities to improve and provide best patient care

· To participate in local and national initiatives being developed by the British Association of Urology Nurses so that patient care is up to date and researched based, educate staff accordingly so that correct procedures followed throughout the Trust. Acts a role model for excellent communication skills and expertise

· Engage with current local and national guidance and ensure cancer care pathways are maintained accordingly.

· Act in accordance with NMC Code of Conduct and guiding documents, and maintain active status on N.M.C. register.

· Maintain a high standard of patient safety and care at all times within the Urological setting.

· Annual appraisal to monitor, assess and reflect practice and development.

Communication

· Communicate effectively within the MDT team to enhance and deliver a high standard of care to the patient at all times.

· Engage in the Advanced Level 2 communication training to enhance patient communication skills.

· Attend regular Clinical Supervision sessions

Educational:

· To identify, assess and meet educational needs of patients and carers.

· Promote and participate in patient support groups and patient and public involvement initiatives.

· To plan and participate in health promotion initiatives within the hospital and in the community.

· To facilitate and deliver education and training in urology and promote the role of the urology nurse practitioner.

· To be responsible for own personal and professional development, seeking advice and support when necessary from senior colleagues and to receive clinical supervision/practice reflection regularly.

· Participate in the annual training needs analysis for the urology service.

· Ensure mandatory training needs are met annually and personal development plan reviewed and updated. Provide up to date evidence for Nursing Revalidation requirements.

Research and Audit:

· To develop a patient centred service by innovation of nurse led initiates in response to patient satisfaction audit.

· To participate in data collection and patient support for current research studies and trials involving urology patients.

· Breaking bad news to patients and supporting patient, family and carers needs.

· Working in a busy challenging environment

· Delivering a high standard of care to the Urological patient.

· Office based, predominantly desk and telephone based service.

Person specification

K & S

• • Knowledge of Prostate cancer pathway and treatment
• • Urology nursing/urology cancer knowledge/experience

You will be joining the organisation at an exciting time. As the first fully integrated care organisation in England, we are working to improve the way we deliver safe, high-quality health and social care. We have a positive and vibrant working atmosphere, we are proud of our investment in our staff both in terms of developing potential career skills and valuing people.

If you provide support to a family member or friend with health or care needs, we aim to be a Carer-friendly employer. We have a ‘Staff Carers’ policy which includes flexible working where possible and a Carer’s Passport scheme that links you into support and discounts.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

• We reserve the right to close vacancies early if we receive a high volume of applications. Therefore, we encourage you to apply promptly.
• Please read the job description carefully and tailor your application to reflect the requirements of the role.
• Applicants who identify in their application form they are a part of the Armed Forces community will be guaranteed an interview, provided they meet the minimum essential criteria outlined in the job description and person specification for the role. Step into Health guidance can be found on our NHS Employers website.
• Correspondence will be sent via Trac, text, and email. Please ensure you check your email and Trac account regularly.
• Applicants with no previous NHS experience will ordinarily be appointed to the minimum of the band.
• If you have not received an invitation to interview within 28 days of the closing date, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.
• It is your responsibility to ensure the timely receipt of appropriate references.

The Trust is committed to preventing discrimination, valuing diversity and achieving equality of opportunity. No person (staff, patient or public) will receive less favourable treatment on the grounds of the nine protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. If you require support you can obtain this from our Equality Business Forum which has representatives from all protected groups.

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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.