Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist - Cystoscopist

at  Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Working Full Time: 32 Hours Per Week
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a talented and dynamic Nurse to join our Urology Team at The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The post holder will lead on flexible Cystoscopies and diagnostics.
The remit will be to lead the Clinical Nurse Specialists within the unit working closely with the Urology Consultants and other members of the MDT to ensure patients with Urology Cancers receive the highest standard of care and to help the service to achieve faster diagnosis cancer standards.
The post holder will carry out diagnostic flexible Cystoscopies managing a caseload of patients and improving patient pathways.
You must have a passion for leadership and management and supporting the development of clinical practice.
You must have a passion for supporting patients within cancer pathways and providing holistic care
You must be able to work flexibly to suit the needs of the service.
You must have a compassionate, person-centered approach to care and an ability to role model.
You must have a good understanding of other additional needs
You must have a good understanding of the inter-relationship between physical illness and mental health.
The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:
The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds
Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility
Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.
The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.
The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.
See Job Description for further details.
Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.
Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £23 (standard) or £43 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first three months of employment.
You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.
New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.
Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.
Good luck with your application

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