Lead nurse for HCC surveillance in Humber and North Yorkshire region

NHS; Kingston upon Hull; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

Lead nurse for HCC surveillance in Humber and North Yorkshire region

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced registered nurse to join the Hepatology clinical nurse specialist team. The successful candidate will take the nursing lead in coordinating the hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) surveillance programme for the Humber and North Yorkshire (HANY) region. This post involves collaborative working within the Humber Health Partnership, York & Scarborough teaching hospitals and the Humber and North Yorkshire Cancer Alliance. We are looking for a confident nurse to lead the service, help engage patients on HCC surveillance to attend their appointments, create and manage a registry, and coordinate patient care.

Main duties of the job

1. Implementation, upkeep, and maintenance of HCC surveillance registry for identified patients under the care of Hepatology services.
2. Development of new protocols and pathways for HCC surveillance to streamline care across the region.
3. Proactively engage patients to attend surveillance appointments, to improve the uptake of HCC surveillance in at-risk patient groups in line with national targets.
4. Collect and submit data as required by the cancer alliance.
5. Directly line manage band 4 care navigators within the HCC surveillance service.
6. Collaborative working with Hepatology services across the region.
7. Create patient information to improve patients' understanding of HCC surveillance.

Person Specification

Experience

• Professional clinical knowledge acquired through at least 5 years' post-basic experience with at least 1 year at a level requiring supervision of other qualified nurses.
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development and training in liver/gastroenterology.
• Ability to manage change in a healthcare environment.
• Understanding of the local and national nursing agenda and priorities.
• Understanding of relevant National Service Frameworks / national guidance.
• Understanding of evidence-based practice.
• Presentations in national or international conferences or publications in peer-reviewed journals.
• Experience of clinical audits both internal and external.
• Experience of staff management and development, clinical supervision, and mentoring.
• Competent to perform advanced skills within the parameters of Scope of Professional Practice.
• Knowledge of, and experience of applying, the Research Governance Framework for Health and Social Care, and of clinical trial regulatory and ethics processes.

Qualifications

• First level registered nurse.
• Degree level education or equivalent.
• Current professional Registration.
• Demonstrable CPD Evidence of research activity/Other liver-related specialist activity.
• 2 years post-registration gastroenterology/Liver clinical experience.
• Teaching qualification or equivalent experience.
• Postgraduate qualifications or equivalent.
• Non-medical prescribing.
• Master's or MPhil.
• Willingness to undertake further education and training.
• Research GCP training.

Skills, Knowledge and Ability

• Advanced communication and interpersonal skills in dealing with complex, sensitive, and emotional situations.
• Demonstrate effective clinical judgment and problem solving.
• Work without supervision in a managed role.
• Ability to develop training methods and materials.
• Ability to interact directly with patients who may be recently diagnosed with serious or terminal illness, and their family members.
• Able to liaise with consultants, other medical staff, and health professionals to ensure satisfactory communication with patients and seamless delivery of care.
• Receive complex information about participants from consultants, GPs, and others involved in their care.
• Communicate complex information, which may sometimes be highly sensitive to patients.
• Maintain accurate records.
• Maintain database of Liver patients/Ability to use advanced software to collect data, create reports, and manage data.
• Ability to use a range of IT programmes including web applications and MS Office applications, database management.
• Ability to make judgements about a range of clinical issues or complex patient conditions.
• Ability to develop and implement training materials and courses.
• Ability to analyse and understand statistical/research outcomes and queries.
• Ability to make judgements about the best way to achieve a complete treatment plan in line with protocols.
• Ability to deal with telephone enquiries from staff, patients, and carers, using judgement to respond or refer to appropriate personnel.
• Cannulation.
• Fibroscan.

Other Requirements

• Excellent Interpersonal Skills - demonstrable ability to build and maintain effective relationships.
• Proven ability to lead and motivate others.
• Proven ability to work in challenging intellectual situations.
• Personal and professional credibility.
• Ability to prioritise and work on own initiative.
• Have a confident approach and the ability to instill confidence.
• Ability to prioritise and meet deadlines.
• Flexible approach to working.
• Openness - shares information and good practice appropriately.
• Professional appearance.
• Enthusiastic, willingness to develop own knowledge.
• Be able to provide professional and emotional support.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.