Clinical Nurse Specialist Lung Cancer

Job Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated, enthusiastic and clinically skilled senior nurse with a strong background in lung cancers to join our team of Lung Specialist Nurses at Pembury Hospital for 22.5 hours per week. You will provide expert clinical and supportive care for patients diagnosed with lung cancer. You will work with the multi-disciplinary teams and the wider teams in supporting patients throughout their treatment pathway, providing individualized, compassionate and informed patient care.You should possess excellent clinical and communication skills, with an established background in cancer or respiratory nursing, be visible and accessible with quality and standards as your priority. You will need to be flexible and resilient in order to cope with the demands of the role.This post will require you to work essentially core working hours to ensure the service is covered Monday-Friday 9-5 with a degree of flexibility to meet service needs.The post will be based at Tunbridge Wells Hospital but may occasionally involve some travel to the Maidstone site for training/meetings.You will be expected to attend the Trust’s Induction Programme for RNs, RMs and ODPs (which starts on the first day of employment). The programme is full-time (please contact the programme lead if this is problematic: ), lasts for two weeks and will involve travelling to both Trust sites. The programme includes supernumerary shifts in the clinical area and classroom-based study days which run from 9am to 5pm.The Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS trust currently care for approximately 500,000 people in the Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells area. The Trust operates from two primary sites; our new state of the art Tunbridge Wells Hospital, the first all single room NHS hospital in England, and Maidstone Hospital.Ideally situated between the Kent coastline and the capital, the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells area is a great place to live and work, combining the excitement of the town with the beautiful rural environment of the Kent countryside.Maidstone Hospital is also home to the Kent Oncology Centre, one of the leading cancer treatment centres in the southeast. The cancer centre treats over 7,000 new patients a year from Kent and East Sussex, and was among the first nationally to benefit from a £4.7 million new treatment system that targets and treats tumours with pinpoint accuracy. The Centre is highly regarded for the excellent care it provides and for its work with major pharmaceutical companies in conducting vital research to support the development of new cancer treatments.You will be expected to attend the Trust’s Induction Programme for RNs, RMs and ODPs (which starts on the first day of employment). The programme is full-time (please contact the programme lead if this is problematic: ), lasts for two weeks and will involve travelling to both Trust sites. The programme includes supernumerary shifts in the clinical area and classroom-based study days which run from 9am to 5pm.Please note that appointment to this post will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure & Barring Service Check at enhanced level. (Enhanced level now includes regulated checks against vulnerable adults and children)We are passionate in supporting our staff to develop and have great opportunities for career progression. We take equality and diversity seriously and seek to empower all diverse groups within our trust. We seek to develop a culture where diversity in all its forms is celebrated. We are committed to ensuring that women are empowered to work at all levels of management and that working patterns are as flexible as possible giving all members of staff opportunity to flourish in using their skills for our patients. We work across our trust to enable those who consider themselves to have a disability both visible and invisible to have access to all they need to thrive in their work environment. We work with Stonewall to embed an inclusive and accepting culture for all lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender staff. We have 78 nationalities working in our trust and we are proud of this. We are active in embracing the ethnic and cultural diversity in our trust. We work to empower people with any protected characteristic to have opportunities to work in an environment that helps them to contribute to the best of their ability, recognising and valuing the unique contributions each of us brings for best quality care and service to our patients. We are committed to supporting the delivery of the Equality Act with zero tolerance for any discrimination, harassment or victimisation of applicants and staff with these protected characteristicsClosing Date: Monday 5th October 2020 Interviews: To be confirmedFor further details / informal visits contact:NameRosalyn YatesJob titleOncology MatronEmail addressrosalyn.yates@nhs.netTelephone numberAdditional contact informationLung CNS Team, Tunbridge Wells, on