Job overview
The post holder will play an active part in delivering the prostate cancer service, ensuring it is high quality, patient-centred, efficient and in line with national cancer standards. The post holder and will be responsible for managing their own patient caseload, providing specialist nursing input and continuity of care to patients at each stage of the pathway (diagnosis, treatment, surveillance, and longer term follow up).
Main duties of the job
- To communicate and work in partnership with all members of the MDT to ensure a seamless pathway of care for patients from diagnosis through treatment and follow up care.
- To manage own caseload and work with colleagues to provide the highest possible standards of care for patients diagnosed with Prostate cancer.
- To support and co-ordinate patient’s / family / carer from diagnosis onwards through all stages of their disease and treatment modalities and utilise excellent communication skills to complete appropriate onward referrals for prostate cancer patients.
- To act as point of contact for patients, their families and carer and to be the ‘keyworker’ for patients diagnosed with prostate cancer
Working for our organisation
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Ensure the Holistic Needs Assessments are completed for all patients at key points of their cancer treatment pathway. You will be required to liaise with and ensure referral and appropriate signposting onto allied health professionals and services as required.
- To provide and offer a wide range of information and support to patients their family and/or carers at all stages of their cancer journey this includes access and utilisation of Information, Prescriptions and signposting to the Macmillan Information space.
- To competently act as the patients, advocate and assist patients in understanding their disease and treatments available to them, to enable them to make informed choices about their care.
- Assist in the co-ordination of patient treatment pathways between the various departments in both primary and secondary care to facilitate continuity of care.
- To attend the relevant urology outpatient clinics, including nurse-led clinics, relevant to specialism, eg, hormone therapy clinics
Person specification
Essential and Desirable
Essential criteria
- Education and Qualification- Degree in Nursing
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge & Experience
- Relevant oncology and urology
- Experience in coordinating clinic and cancer pathways
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Skills & Abilities
Desirable criteria
- years experience
PERSONAL QUALITIES
Essential criteria
- PERSONAL QUALITIES
Desirable criteria
- communication skills
SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS
To comply with the Trust’s Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:
- Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
- Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
- Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
- Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
- Participate in required training and supervision.
- Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct
Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
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