Band 7 Paediatric Clinical Nurse Specialist in Neuro-Oncology at Denmark Hill Site

We are seeking a highly motivated, enthusiastic, forward-thinking individual to join the multi-disciplinary Neurosurgical Team. We provide a high-quality service caring for babies, children, and young people and their families living with benign and malignant brain tumours.

Responsibilities

• Work within a seamless specialist neurosurgical and oncology nursing service aimed at continuously improving standards of patient care and facilitating multi-professional working.
• Achieve this through clinical practice, management, education, research and audit, and professional activities, taking into account directorate, corporate, and national policy within the clinical governance framework.
• Work as an autonomous clinical nurse specialist to co-ordinate and deliver expert nursing care effectively to a defined caseload of children and young people with brain and spine tumours, meeting their health, health-related, and nursing needs (social, emotional, educational, financial, etc., as appropriate).
• Help the multidisciplinary team (MDT) to meet the objectives of the NICE Cancer Guidelines.
• Work alongside the existing specialist nurse to effectively co-ordinate and deliver an expert nursing service to neurosurgical oncology patients in Child Health and manage a caseload of patients. Assessing patients, planning and implementing care, providing specialist advice, maintaining associated records, and providing specialist education and training to other staff and students.
• Engage in flexible, cross-boundary partnership working through the establishment and maintenance of clear communication with primary oncology centres and other health teams to increase knowledge and facilitate patient care in the community.
• Use knowledge and skills as a basis from which to further develop practice, understanding the implications of the social, economic, and political context of health care, including the assessment and management of risk.
• Contribute to the development of evidence-based clinical nursing practice in line with current research and guidelines.