An exciting opportunity has arisen for 2 a motivated and organized person to join the Breast cancer team at the Royal Free. The postholders will work closely with the Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialists and wider service to support and provide holistic care to patients with cancer and their carers. The successful candidates should have excellent communication skills. He/ she will liaise regularly with patients, carers, nurses, GPs and cancer support services, perform holistic needs assessments and refer patients to appropriate resources and agencies.
The successful candidates are required to be able demonstrate the Trust values, the responsibilities of the job description and person specification.
To provide general information and support about cancer and cancer services, to enable people to navigate the health and social care system and make choices that are best for their cancer and their life. A key aspect of the role involves daily and direct (e.g. face to face and telephone) communication with patients, relatives, carers, and other health and social care professionals. The information and nature of the communication required is sensitive due to the nature of cancer. Communication in this context requires a high degree of empathy, understanding, diplomacy, honesty and integrity.
Our trust has around 10,000 staff serving 1.6 million patients. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.
Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.
Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
To support the delivery of personalised cancer care interventions to breast cancer patient, this will involve cross site working supporting the CNS team at the Royal Free Hampstead site and Chase Farm hospital.
This advert closes on Monday 11 Nov 2024