Band 8a Surgical Care Practitioner - Kidney Cancer

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Band 8a Surgical Care Practitioner - Kidney Cancer NHS AfC: Band 8a Main area Urology Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a Contract Permanent: Full time Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 391-RFL-

Site Royal Free Hospital Town London Salary £66,274 - £73,496 Per annum inclusive of HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 20/10/:59

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An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our highly reputable Specialist Kidney Cancer Team as a Surgical Care Practitioner (SCP). This post is being offered as a Band 8a qualified SCP, or as a Band 7 trainee SCP post which would include a funded place on the three-year MSc programme.

Main duties of the job The post holder will be expected to provide an expert SCP role in the Specialist Centre for Kidney Cancer. The successful applicant will have experience within the theatre environment and will work as an integral member of the Kidney Cancer and theatre team. The SCP will perform their extended role to provide high quality perioperative care across a range of robotic and laparoscopic kidney procedures.

Audit and research interest is important for the role.

The SCP will be expected to liaise appropriately with all key members of the multidisciplinary team and service users to ensure patients receive a seamless surgical experience.

They will act as a highly specialised role model and leader for all members of staff and play a major role in the continuous development of the service.

Working for our organisation The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.

Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.

Person specification Education & professional Qualifications

• Masters' degree in Surgical Care Practice (Qualified SCP)
• Appropriate teaching certificate or extensive teaching experience
• Advance communication skills course
• Evidence of recent professional / management / leadership development
• Basic Surgical Skills (RCS course)
• First Surgical Assistant Course (Intuitive-Da Vinci)
• Non-medical prescribing course or willingness to undertake
• Intravesical chemotherapy (mitomycin) administration course or willingness to undertake

Royal Free shared commitments

• Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust shared commitments.

Experience

• Extensive experience in Urology (Kidney) Robotic/Laparoscopic/Open Assisting as SCP for: Partial Nephrectomy Complex partial nephrectomy (i.e. multiple partial nephrectomy, partial nephrectomy on single kidney and multiple partial nephrectomy on single kidney) Radical Nephrectomy Retroperitoneal Partial/Radical Nephrectomy Nephroureterectomy Radical Nephrectomy with IVC thrombectomy Reconstructive surgery (i.e. Pyeloplasty and Ureteric reimplantation) Adrenalectomy Para-aortic Lymphadenectomy Cancer, benign and reconstructive kidney surgery
• Independent in flexible cystoscopy: Follow up flexible cystoscopy post nephroureterectomy for non-muscle invasive TCC and mascle invasive TCC Stent removal post pyeloplasty Preoperatively to nephroureterectomy for diagnostic purpose
• Experience in running nurse/SCP led clinic: Preoperative surgical clinic (including kidney biopsy) Follow up post kidney cancer treatment Active surveillance for kidney conditions Post-operative follow up SCP clinic
• Experience in a senior nurse role in an acute NHS setting
• Experience in perioperative management of complex surgical patients
• Able to use skills of history taking and physical assessment to direct patient care
• Extensive experience in theatres
• Experience of working autonomously at an advanced level within the specialist area
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Proven ability to initiate audits/research & assess evidence
• Knowledge and experience of leading significant change, delivering tangible and sustained improvement
• Experience of motivating staff and improving individuals and team performance
• Able to build rapport and credibility with senior clinical and managerial colleagues
• Experience of developing business and workplans in line with future service requirements
• Extensive knowledge and experience of practice and policy across a broad range of responsibilities, e.g. financial systems & budgetary control, corporate and clinical governance, health & safety and human resources
• Experience of managing employment relation issues
• Budgetary management skills

Skills and aptitudes

• Competencies as defined by the Curriculum Framework for Surgical Care Practitioners for the NHS National Practitioner programme
• Up to date knowledge of current clinical and professional issues
• Sound Knowledge of current issues in the profession and practice of nursing.
• Knowledge of quality standards & NICE recommendations/NSF
• Up to date knowledge of EAU guidelines
• Excellent skills in time management and organization
• Evidence of teaching / presentation skills
• Ability to conduct & evaluate own projects successfully, to act autonomously in planning & implementing tasks
• Ability to organise / coordinate diverse teams to deliver high standard of patient care
• Knowledge of current clinical / nursing / SCPs research
• Proven ability to influence others through research findings
• To prepare written reports and contribute to business planning and service delivery
• Open, participative, dynamic and supportive leadership with a flexible management style
• Ability to critically analyse data
• Advanced clinical, Managerial and leadership skills in specialty.
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