Two Rivers Medical Centre is looking to recruit a cancer care nurse to join our dedicated team, on a full time basis, to help us to transform and modernise pathways of care.
Main duties of the job
* Support the 2WW suspected cancer pathway referrals into secondary care, by ensuring all pre referral tests are completed.
* Scope the community services available, that support early identification of cancer, there are some health inequalities within identifying early cancer at an early stage.
* Be point of contact for cancer in supporting other practice nurses and administration staff to identify the support patients may require that are having cancer treatments and living with and beyond cancer.
* Lead on the development of a Make Every Contact Count (MECC) through embedding a health promotion pathway for those patients who has been referred on a cancer pathway and are discharged following secondary assessment.
* Lead improvements in the quality of reviews completed in primary care post diagnosis.
* Support the development of innovations across all aspects of the cancer pathway.
* Assist in the investigation of clinical incidents/complaints relating to care of patients within your care.
* Fully evaluate the service and be actively involved in business planning for future provision & sustainability with the PCN and SNEEICS colleagues.
About us
As an employee of Two Rivers Medical Centre, you will enjoy the following benefits:
* Proper pay -Living Wage Foundation Accredited
* Annual Leave: minimum 33 days FTE, with enhancements for long service
* Enhanced maternity & paternity terms
Job responsibilities
If you would like to find out more information about thisrole, please see the attached job specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Clinical experience in caring for patients with cancer.
* Experience in either primary care, community care or voluntary sector organisations.
* Ability to work confidently under own initiative, prioritizing workload and balancing competing demands.
* A confident user of all IT clinical systems.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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