Job overview

We are looking for a motivated and dependable nurse to join our Head and Neck Cancer Nursing team as a Band 6 Clinical Nurse Specialist.

In this role, you will work alongside our dedicated team of Clinical Nurse Specialists to provide comprehensive physical and emotional support to cancer patients throughout their treatment journey. You will also collaborate closely with the broader Head and Neck multidisciplinary team to ensure holistic patient care.

The role demands a proactive and approachable team member who will take clinical responsibility for patients diagnosed with Head and Neck and thyroid cancers. The Clinical Nurse Specialist is expected to make informed decisions within their professional scope to ensure that established standards and objectives are achieved.

To collaborate with all key members of the multidisciplinary team, providing advice and support to colleagues in delivering specialized patient care across professional boundaries. 

To undertake nurse-led clinics and various nurse-led services, ensuring excellent standards of nursing care to patients through the planning, co-ordinating, delivery, and evaluation of clinics.

To work autonomously to deliver specialist clinical care appropriate to the needs of the patient group and service based on principles that are research-based, and which enhance the quality of patient care.

Main duties of the job

• Accountable for own actions in accordance with the Code of Professional Conduct. Will contribute to corporate objectives, acting within local, Trust and statutory guidelines and policies at all times. 
• Effectively communicate information regarding clinical decisions, policy and care pathways to patients/carers and the multi-professional team locally and within the West Midlands Clinical Strategic Network to enable a high-quality service. 
• A skilled practitioner and clinical leader providing support to the management team, participating in service/policy development within a defined speciality. 
• Responsible for clinical assessment of a group of patients ensuring appropriate high-quality care within the speciality of Head and Neck and thyroid cancer is planned, implemented and evaluated/audited. 
• A supportive resource for staff, advising on national, local and Trust policy, procedures/guidelines, ensuring that clinical governance is embedded in practice. 
• Demonstrate highly technical and/or practical skills to ensure optimum patient management including complex patient monitoring; equipment management and frequent administration of invasive tests/procedures. 

Working for our organisation

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK.

We are extremely proud of our employees across our hospital sites, with high quality patient care at the heart of everything we do.

Boasting some of the most modern facilities in Western Europe, the Trust is renowned for being at the forefront of research and innovation as part of its blossoming reputation as a worldwide leader in healthcare.

We are proud to be recognised as a Pathway to Excellence® designated organisation – please click the link for further details about this prestigious award. Pathway To Excellence ® - University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire (uhcw.nhs.uk)

By joining our exciting journey, you will form part of a passionate, talented team and will be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. There has never been a better time to join our team.

The Trust is committed to building an organisation that makes full use of the talents, skills, experience, and different perspectives available in our diverse society. We want everyone to feel they are respected, valued, can achieve their potential and receive the most appropriate and relevant care. We will create an environment where the equality and human rights principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are promoted and are part of the organisation's core values.