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Job overview

Are you an experienced cancer services nurse who is passionate about the care of Teenagers and Young Adults (TYA's) with Cancer? If so, we would like to invite you to apply for this exciting opportunity working as a TYA Clinical Nurse Specialist (TYA CNS) within the TYA Cancer support team at the Principal Treatment Centre (PTC) in Cambridge. 

We are looking for a motivated individual to join a team dedicated to improving the lives of Teenagers and Young Adults (TYA) with cancer. The TYA CNS will work with the wider Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) in CUH and regionally in collaboration with the TYA team, to ensure all TYA patients receive age-appropriate care and high quality psychosocial support.

Main duties of the job

Advise and provide clinical and psycho-social support information to our patients and their families within the TYA age range of 13 -24 years treated at CUH.

Use your knowledge of TYA cancers to assess, develop and implement holistic specialist nursing care programs, advocating for the YP, enabling them to feel well informed, supported and listened to throughout their treatment and beyond into survivorship or palliative care.

Be responsible for your own caseload of patients, working collaboratively with your colleagues, reflecting the core components of your role and the personalized care agenda, such as promoting age appropriate care, transition in and out of TYA Cancer Services, psycho-social and holistic support and implementing Holistic Needs Assessments (HNA’s) as required. 

Use your knowledge to advise and support YP and their families upon their treatment including side effects and the psycho-social impact. This knowledge will also be used in the provision of specialist education and training for your colleagues, new to TYA cancer care. 

Support patients to self-manage, lead or participate in their care delivery during treatment and as part of the TYA Nurse Led Post treatment Clinic.

Working for our organisation

Come Nurse with us…

Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the country. It comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital. We provide accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge and regional and national specialist services. It’s a great place to nurse, work and live.

You will work on a vibrant hospital campus with a friendly community feel; we have excellent facilities to practise your skills and abilities to support your career pathway and development. Our values of Together – Safe, Kind, Excellent support the delivery of outstanding care. We have a fully electronic patient record system that is improving health-care quality; this is transforming services, improving patient safety and clinical outcomes.

CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people’s age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.