Acute Oncology and MUO/CUP Clinical Nurse Specialist

at  The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

The post holder will join the Acute Oncology service, reporting to the Macmillan Lead Nurse/Advanced Nurse Practitioner for Acute Oncology and work with support and direction of the Clinical Leads for both Acute Oncology and Cancer of Unknown Primary, to ensure seamless delivery of care for patients and their families referred to these services.
As a core member of the Acute Oncology service and MUO/CUP team, they will be expected to work autonomously within the Emergency Department (ED), Outpatients and Inpatient wards; ensuring equitable, standardised, high quality care, for patient who present to PAH with cancer treatment or disease related complications.
Working collaboratively with other healthcare professionals, providing specialist advice in all aspects of Acute Oncology, to support seamless delivery of care and integration of services.
The post holder will act as an educational resource and support provision of education to the wider Trust.
In addition, they will facilitate, innovative and evidence-based nursing practice through professional leadership; participating and leading on clinical audits undertaken in relation to Acute Oncology and CUP and, participate in on-going service development, with support from senior colleagues.
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.
We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop’s Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.
Our Values
The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:
Patient at heart – Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts
Everyday excellence – Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both
Creative collaboration – Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care
The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.
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