Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Prostate Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist
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Prostate Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) Opportunity
We have an exciting opportunity to join our dynamic Prostate Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) team. The team provides specialist support to patients across Hampshire Hospitals sites, including Basingstoke, Winchester, and Andover.
This Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist post (dependent on experience) will:
- Work as an autonomous practitioner, delivering expert, specialist care to patients diagnosed with prostate cancer.
- Collaborate with the Prostate Cancer CNS team to coordinate the diagnostic pathway, including prostate biopsies for individuals referred with suspected prostate cancer, ensuring high-quality care in line with national and local standards.
- Provide evidence-based care for a designated caseload of patients, working alongside the Lead Prostate Cancer Consultant. This includes running nurse-led active surveillance and post-treatment clinics, assessing patients either remotely or face-to-face using a range of communication methods.
- Act as a key point of contact between patients and the multidisciplinary team, ensuring clear and effective communication across professional boundaries.
- Support Cancer Support Worker-led clinic activity, including workshops and patient assessments for those enrolled in the Prostate Cancer Personalised Stratified Follow-Up pathway.
- High standards of Professional Practice to ensure quality and safety of the patients experience of care when referred via the suspected prostate cancer pathway.
- Assess, plan and implement necessary diagnostic investigations following receipt of primary care referrals.
- Exercise clinical judgement relating to individuals complex care needs, including those where factors may be conflicting, requiring high level analysis and interpretation skills, comparing a range of options to achieve effective treatment or discharge planning.
- Specialised clinical practice, knowledge, skills and experience.
- To promote an innovative and progressive attitude to the continual improvement of patient care, through reviewing the evidence base and embedding this through clinical audit and research engagement.
- Leading by example.
- Ensuring clinical services are delivered to a high quality of care and that all compliance requirements such as CQC and contractual requirements are achieved.
- Effective leadership.
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Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.
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Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.
We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.
The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Tina Gehring
- Job title: Lead Urology Nurse
- Email address: tina.gehring@hhft.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 01256 313515
- Mobile: 07795613060
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