Lead Nurse - Psycho-Oncology

This is an exciting opportunity new role for a highly motivated individual with significant experience within mental health settings to work in our specialist psycho-oncology team that supports patients undergoing oncology treatments in the planning and delivery of care for this complex group of patients in both inpatient and outpatient settings. The postholder should be highly visible and accountable to the psycho-oncology team and sensitive to the needs of the client groups, carers and wider family. The post holder will provide a knowledgeable supportive leadership presence across the team.
As a Lead Nurse you would be expected to deliver compassionate and inclusive senior nurse leadership, overseeing high quality clinical care for psycho-oncology services at The Christie. This will be achieved through visible leadership and working collaboratively with staff and patients to promote, support and review quality standards.
To provide strong professional leadership and line management responsibility for mental health nurses and AHP’s within the psycho-oncology department. This role will be responsible for the day-to-day delivery of effective clinical practice to improve and enhance the care of oncology patients with mental and psychological needs. The post holder will ensure that all patients are treated with compassion, dignity and respect placing value on the diversity of the local community and beyond.
The key responsibility is to ensure that the patient experience is of the highest quality inspiring patient and public confidence. This will be achieved through high visibility, accessibility and surveillance. The post holder will be expected to work clinically and provide clinical leadership and support the delivery of evidence-based patient centred care, which is of the highest standard. The post holder will take responsibility for the quality management of the psycho-oncology team with a specific emphasis on facilitating, enabling and supporting the team in their decision making in order to achieve optimal patient care and use of available resources across the entire hospital site.
The Christie is one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country.
We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years.
We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.

• Perform comprehensive assessments of patients' mental health and psychological needs and plan, implement and evaluate care delivery according to changing health care needs to ensure continuity of effective patient care.
• Perform advanced clinical skills in psychological and mental health assessment, diagnosis and interactions to enhance the patient experience.
• Provide supervision to nursing colleagues regarding the management of patients with specific mental health
• Manage and participate in the provision of the psycho-oncology service during hours of operation.
• Collect, collate, evaluate and report information, maintaining accurate patient records in line with clinical governance and risk-management.
• Involve patient and carers/relatives in the planning and delivery of care and development of services to enhance the patient/carer
• Work collaboratively with other professionals and agencies to ensure patient needs are
• Use advanced communication skills in a variety of
• Monitor health, safety and security of self and others and promote best practice in the clinical area.
• Promote patient and public involvement activities in the specialist area, leading to service improvement.
• As an ambassador of the nursing profession, ensure self and others practice to the highest professional standards.
• Responsible for the informal and formal appraisal of direct line report staff and for ensuring that they are trained, supported and developed accordingly.
• Ensure that all direct line report staff have clear and agreed performance objectives that support the delivery of the Directorate and the wider Divisional and Trust objectives.
• Participate in skill mix review, workforce redesign and recruitment and retention strategies to develop and modernise the workforce in conjunction with the divisional Senior Nursing and Management team.
• Responsible for the effective management of staff sickness and absence as well as maintaining an overview ensuring absence percentage targets are not breached, acting where required.
• The Lead Nurse will provide professional advice and support to specialty teams and service line colleagues to ensure the delivery of the highest quality of patient care and service delivery.
• The Lead Nurse will ensure that nursing and relevant support staff are managed and developed to enable them to deliver the highest standards of patient care and service.
• Ensure the effective and efficient use of physical and financial resources in conjunction with finance and the service manager.

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