Job summary
- Main area
- Children's and Young Persons integrated Cancer Service
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week (Flexible to meet service need)
- Job ref
- 164-7242102
- Employer
- Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Nottingham Children's Hospital at Nottingham University Hospital QMC campus
- Town
- Nottingham
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
MacMillan Paediatric Oncology Outreach Nurse Specialist
Band 7
Job overview
The Paediatric Oncology Outreach Nurse Specialists play a vital role in the co-ordination and delivery of care and support to the children and young people cared for by the Children’s and Young Person’s integrated Cancer Service.
You will deliver high quality care provision to children and young people with cancer and their families who live in the South Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire area. This will see you taking responsibility of a caseload, advocating for the child/young person and family. You will provide highly specialist support, advice, education, training and information to healthcare professionals (HCP) within primary care, school staff and members of the MDT and appropriate training, support and information for children and young people and their families/carers.
As a Band 7 CNS, you will demonstrate leadership skills, managing the outreach team and caring for patients within the hospital and community setting. You will be a Registered Nurse (Child), holding a Paediatric Oncology Qualification with the knowledge and skills to act as an expert practitioner in this speciality. Experience of working within the community is desirable but not essential, the post would include flexible hours particularly for palliative care.
If you are highly motivated and committed to delivering a seamless quality service to the children and young people and have the drive and passion to challenge practice and participate in developing the Service, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
Please familiarise yourself with full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached to this advert.
In this role you will be part of, and manage, a small team of Paediatric Oncology Outreach Nurses and Play Specialists who support and care for children and young people and their families, cared for by the East Midlands Children’s and Young Person’s integrated Service. Working as part of the paediatric Oncology team based at Nottingham Children's Hospital you will be part of a wider MDT responsible for the care of this group of patients, supporting local community nursing teams in Nottingham and South Derbyshire to deliver care to the patients.
Working for our organisation
With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.
Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.
The Paediatric Oncology Outreach team are based at the Nottingham Children’s Hospital at QMC campus of NUH supporting patients on wards, clinics and at home. We are looking for an enthusiastic dynamic individual who can demonstrate compassion, empathy and care for our Patients and families within a variety of settings and via telephones. You should have excellent written and verbal communication skills, and model leadership values as we seek to expand and enhance our service for the benefit of the Patients and families.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please familiarise yourself with full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached to this advert.
The post holder will provide leadership, focus and resource for, providing a high standard of complex care and support to the child/young person with cancer/leukaemia and their families, including clinical expertise in palliative care. The post holder will work collaboratively with colleagues in the multidisciplinary team to coordinate care provided by the community nursing team. The post holder will provide specialist education and training to staff working in Primary care, education Services, Social services and the voluntary sector caring for these children.
The post holder actively participates in multi-professional meetings, acting as patient advocate and representing nursing views. The post holder will take overall responsibility for providing safe and effective complex care to all children within a defined paediatric oncology/haematology caseload in the Nottinghamshire and South Derbyshire area of the East Midlands.
The post holder will manage the band 6 paediatric Oncology Outreach Nurse Specialist and outreach Play Specialist posts and participate in the supervision, teaching, mentorship and appraisal of pre and post registration staff.
The post holder will work autonomously in both the hospital and community setting.
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Person specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Current registration with NMC - RSCN or RN (child)
- • Master’s degree or equivalent or willingness to work towards/equivalent experience.
- • Degree in health/nursing related studies
- • Relevant post-reg study in oncology/palliative care / willingness to undertake at degree/master’s level
- • Recognised Teaching and assessing qualification / have completed teaching and assessing supervisor training. Evidence of leadership course
- • Completion of all local competency packages or has undertaken Role Development Packages essential to role and specialty
Desirable criteria
- Advanced Communication Skills Training (or willingness to undertake)
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Significant post registration experience at band 6 or above, in oncology/haematology/palliative care
- • Experience of initiating and implementing change effectively, engaging stakeholders in the process
- • Leadership and management experience, including feedback and appraisals, managing risk, clinical incidents and complaints
- • Demonstrates an awareness of research principles and their application to clinical evidence-based practice with experience of participating with audit or research and developing standards, guidelines and policies
- • Evidence of teaching and assessment skills, including the teaching of patients, families and colleagues and supervision of registered, non-registered staff and students
Desirable criteria
- • Presenting at meetings/conferences
Communication and Relationship skills
Essential criteria
- • Excellent oral and written communicator including report writing and presentation skills
- • Can minimise interpersonal conflict and barriers to communication, demonstrating evidence of negotiating and influencing skills
- • Ability to convey highly complex sensitive information in an empathetic manner to patients, relatives and staff
- • Ability to work within an MDT; collaborating with, leading when required, negotiating with and influencing the work of others across a range of disciplines and on own initiative including the sharing of highly complex information and implementation of plans for Service development.
- • Ability to manage complex and difficult emotional situations and support colleagues, patients and relatives/carers in distressing circumstances
- • Ability to deliver presentations and chair meetings
Desirable criteria
- • Evidence of networking locally, nationally and internationally
Analytical and judgement skills
Essential criteria
- • Able to respond to problems/ situations and ensure that effective interventions are put in place.
- • Ability to interpret and analyse highly complex clinical and non- clinical information
- • Act autonomously in decision making within specialty and level of competence.
- • Recognition of own level of competence and limitations. Able to identify own learning needs
- • Evidence of clinical and non-clinical data collection, evaluation, analysis, interpretation and application to clinical practice
- • Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of national policy and current issues affecting paediatric cancer/leukaemia specialty and its implications for practice
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of writing audit/research reports for a multi professional audience
Planning and organisational skills
Essential criteria
- • Demonstrate an ability to prioritise own workload, and that of others. Recognise, prioritise and respond appropriately to urgent and emergency situations within an unpredictable working environment.
- • Able to lead the development, implementation and monitoring of local protocols and objectives and action plans to lead and introduce change
- • Able to prioritise actions and to provide clinical leadership to the healthcare team.
- • Awareness of budget constraints and ordering specialist supplies
Desirable criteria
- • Experience in reviewing service, ensuring compliances with National Standards
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Margaret Parr
- Job title
- Lead Nurse EM CYP integrated Cancer Service
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07595 284908
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