Macmillan Lung Cancer Nurse

Enable people to access, identify, appraise and interpret information, to determine their own future.

Provide clinical expertise, specialist advice and support across service boundaries.

Define a clear care pathway, refers to other professionals and signposts to other agencies as appropriate.

Make clinical judgements based on experience and knowledge and take appropriate action Request diagnostic tests within agreed sphere of competence and make clinical judgements based on clinical expertise.

Assess and manage symptoms, problems related to area of expertise and recognising when appropriate for onward referral is required.

To facilitate the assimilation of complex clinical information regarding diagnosis, staging investigations and treatment options

Support and empower patients and carers to influence and participate in often difficult decisions regarding the panning and delivery of care.

Promote self-management, undertaking risk stratification to determine those who can self-manage, following education, those who will need guided support to self-manage and those who will require on-going, face to face support.

Please refer to attached Job Decription and perosnal specification for further information rergarding roles and repsonsibilities associated to this role.

All new colleagues can expect to receive a warm and friendly Wirral welcome from the very first time they make contact with us. We are described as "competent and caring staff" by our patients.

Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is situated on The Wirral peninsula which has a stunning coastline and beautiful countryside surroundings, with great activities for its residents.

We are one of the largest and busiest acute Trusts in the North West of England, comprising of the Wirral's only Emergency Department. We provide a high quality range of acute care services and employ over 6,000 staff, who serve a population of approximately 400,000 people across Wirral, Ellesmere Port, Neston, North Wales and the wider North West footprint.

We have approximately 855 beds trust-wide and our financial turnover is in excess of £337m.

The Wirral is easily accessible with excellent transport links including motorway, train, bus or ferry and within easy reach to the major cities of Liverpool, Chester and Manchester as well as neighbouring North Wales.

Qualifications, Specific Experience & Training

Desirable: - Recognised teaching qualification; - Clinical Diagnostics / Nurse Prescribing; - IT qualification; - Evidence of master's level learning

Knowledge and Skills

Desirable: - Evidence of advanced communications skills; - Audit/ research Skills