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Location

Lancashire | United Kingdom

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Job description

An opportunity has arisen to join the HPB/UGI Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) team in the role of Macmillan HPB/UGI Clinical Nurse Specialist within The Northern Care Alliance NHS Group. This is a part time permanent post working 22.5 hours per week.

This is a senior cancer nurse who will provide specialist support to patients with a suspected or confirmed diagnosis of HPB /UGI cancer throughout all stages of their pathway from referral to diagnosis and treatment. Acting as their keyworker the CNS will provide information to support informed decision making including information on appropriate treatment and MDT outcomes.

The ideal candidates will possesses excellent communication skills and have an ability to deal with service users and clinicians over the phone and in person in a polite and compassionate manner. You will liaise with all members of the MDT, to facilitate the teaching of ward staff, patients, families and carers of all aspects of colorectal surgical management. You will also be expected in conjunction with the audit team to record data, compile results and present them to relevant members of the MDT. You must be a dynamic flexible individual with advanced I.T, administrative and organisational skills should ideally have a minimum of two years’ experience in HPB/UGI nursing and have shown a keen interest in developing your clinical skills and knowledge.

You will be based at The Royal Oldham Hospital but you may be required to work on any other the other Northern Care Alliance Sites in order to perform your duties. An ability to work autonomously and to respond quickly to requests is required in addition to the ability to use your own initiative.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential tomake a differenceand we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values -care,appreciateandinspire– to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

We are currently in process of updating our values. For the latest information around our values and behaviours, please visit our careers website:

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website:

This vacancy is open to those who have a current NMC PIN to practice as an Registered Nurse or Midwife in the UK, or those who are currently enrolled on a course which means they expect to receive their full NMC PIN within the next 3 months. Please note an NMC PRN PIN is not a full NMC PIN and would not fulfil the essential criteria for this role.

The NCA can no longer accept applications from International Nurses and Midwives who are yet to complete all competencies needed to receive a full NMC PIN to practice in the UK as we have paused our OSCE programme indefinitely. To learn more about how you can gain a full NMC PIN to be eligible to apply for our vacancies in the future, please see the NMC website:

This advert closes on Monday 18 Mar 2024

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