Clinical Nurse Specialist Germ Cell

Supporting patients in the consultant clinics and beyond; specialist information giving, emotional support.

Communicate complex and sensitive information regarding diagnosis, prognosis, treatment options, surveillance plans and disease progression.

Act as a key worker and patient advocate, ensuring patients and carers understand their treatment pathway and are supported to make informed decisions.

Responding to calls to the CNS helpline.

Providing nurse led clinics for germ cell patients follow up.

Actively monitoring and managing toxicity to SACTs.

Attending and contributing to the weekly team radiology meeting.

Development of survivorship and support programmes within the speciality.

Liaising with wider multidisciplinary team (e.g. Uro-Oncology team at NBT, Community palliative care, Macmillan support workers, GPs, hospital ward teams).

Help to implement and develop the role out of a remote monitoring system for patients on follow up - My Medical Record

Interpersonal and communication skills

Provide specialist information, support and advice to patients and their families from diagnosis through treatment, follow-up and living with and beyond cancer.

Communicate complex and sensitive information regarding diagnosis, prognosis, treatment options, surveillance plans and disease progression.

Act as a key worker and patient advocate, ensuring patients and carers understand their treatment pathway and are supported to make informed decisions.

Provide telephone, virtual and face-to-face consultations, adapting communication styles to meet individual patient needs.

Develop therapeutic relationships with patients and families experiencing anxiety, distress and uncertainty related to cancer diagnosis and treatment.

Liaise effectively with consultants, specialist nurses, MDT members, primary care teams, community services and external providers to coordinate care.

Facilitate referrals to support services, including palliative care, psychological support, allied health professionals and charitable organisations.

Communicate difficult or potentially distressing information sensitively, including disease progression, treatment complications and end-of-life discussions when appropriate.

Support patients where communication barriers exist, including cognitive impairment, emotional distress, language differences or sensory impairment.

Professional knowledge and expertise

Maintain specialist knowledge of germ cell cancer, associated treatments, surveillance pathways and supportive care interventions.

Demonstrate clinical knowledge acquired through professional registration, degree-level education and specialist cancer training.

Apply national and local cancer policies, pathways, protocols and guidelines to clinical practice.

Maintain knowledge of Living With and Beyond Cancer initiatives, cancer survivorship and remote monitoring pathways.

Provide evidence-based specialist advice to patients, carers and healthcare professionals.

Maintain professional competence through continuing professional development, education, audit and service improvement activities.

Work within the NMC Code and Trust policies to ensure safe and effective practice.

Problem-solving and decision-making

Assess patients presenting with complex physical, psychological and social needs associated with germ cell cancer and its treatment.

Analyse clinical information, investigation results and patient-reported symptoms to inform clinical decision making.

Prioritise urgent concerns and escalate appropriately to medical colleagues or emergency services where required.

Recognise deterioration and identify patients requiring urgent review, intervention or referral.

Evaluate treatment-related toxicities and recommend appropriate management strategies.

Exercise professional judgement when managing uncertain or complex clinical situations.

Identify barriers to care and develop practical solutions to ensure continuity of patient support and treatment.

Planning and coordination

Manage and prioritise an autonomous caseload of patients across the germ cell cancer pathway.

Coordinate investigations, appointments, follow-up reviews and surveillance programmes.

Plan and deliver nurse-led clinics, including face-to-face, telephone and virtual consultations.

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust brings together more than 28,000 staff to deliver over 160 clinical services across thirteen hospital locations,operatingfrom three main sites at Southmead, Bristol citycentreand Weston.

With an annual turnover of £2.3 billion, we are now one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone's throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that theSouth Westhas to offer.

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust values all people as individuals. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we're meeting our pledge.

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Qualifications and Training

Essential: - RGN.1st Level or relevant children's qualification; - Current NMC Registration; - Qualification in Teaching and Assessing