Assistant Practitioner or Nursing associate in Lung Cancer

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond – come and take your place with us.

Job overview

Assistant Practitioner or Nursing Associate in Lung Cancer

The working days are Monday to Friday

An exciting opportunity has arisen to appoint either a Assistant Practitioner or Nursing Associate to complete the team of 6 soon to be 8 Lung CNS’s, 2 pathway nurses and 2 assistant practitioners. This role will be for the NE Sector of NCA (Fairfield, Rochdale and Oldham).

The very well established lung cancer nursing team aims to provide a high quality service which is evidence based to support lung cancer and mesothelioma patients and their families/carers. Through collaborative working with members of the multi-disciplinary team, they provide specialist nursing intervention, specialist psychological, emotional, social, practical and financial support which is responsive to the patients and families’ needs and is equitable and accessible to all.

The Lung Cancer Nursing team work very closely with all staff involved in the care of cancer patients but, in particular Respiratory Physicians, Oncologists, Ward staff and other Lung Cancer MDT members. The team liaise closely with both tertiary and primary care partners. The team are required to work with patients who present either via the two week wait referral system or present acutely to the service.

Main duties of the job

Do you want to:-

• Progress your career within the specialist lung cancer service
• Work within progressive multi-disciplinary team
• Be involved in educational delivery, service developments and research and audit projects

If so, this post may be of interest to you.

Please see the person specification /Job Description for further information.

The objectives of the team are to:

• Provide support to patients and their families/carers from diagnosis through to palliative care by providing education, information, resources.
• Provide support to staff caring for patients with lung cancer and mesothelioma.
• Liaise with primary, secondary and tertiary centres

Essential requirements

• The post-holder will be be either a qualified Assistant Practitioner with a foundation degree or a qualified Nursing Associate
• Ideally been Working in respiratory/oncology speciality recently for at least 2 year.
• The role will require excellent communication and interpersonal skills, good organisational and administrative skills
• You must be able to communicate effectively at all levels, ability to use own initiative and be enthusiastic and hard working. Can work well under pressure and remain calm in difficult situations and the ability to work with distressing information
• Access to transport / car driver as will be required to work on different site

Working for our organisation

Bury Care Organisation

Bury Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. Rated as ‘outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, our Fairfield site delivers innovative patient-centred care, and boasts an award winning Stroke centre and Heart Care unit. Supported by our community services in Bury, a mix of professionals from health, social and voluntary sectors, Bury exemplifies the benefits of a joined up approach to health and social care.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk

In line with the Trust’s Single Equality Scheme we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of ethnic origin, disability, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, religion, marital status, social back ground or trade union membership.