A Vacancy at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust.
We are recruiting for a Clinical Nurse Specialist who share/s our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
We are a forward thinking Colorectal Nursing team. We are passionate about providing excellent care for our patients whist also ensuring we are an inclusive supportive team.
As a member of this multidisciplinary team you will play a key role in supporting the on-going improvement effort to shorten diagnosis pathways, reduce variation, improve patient experience of care and meet the Faster Diagnosis standard.
The Post holder must have recent experience in working in Colorectal Cancer with specialist knowledge of the Suspected Cancer pathways and investigations required.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Provide clinical support, nursing care and clinical leadership for patients referred on the suspected cancer pathway for lower gastro-intestinal (LGI) cancer.
Take patients off the cancer pathway and communicate with them and primary care providers. The post holder will work as an integral member of the LGI team, collaborating with primary and secondary care clinical and operational teams, to ensure those referred on the pathway receive a high quality, safe, effective and timely diagnostic pathway.
See new referrals into the pathway in a clinic setting and make clinical decisions on next steps. Previous experience of nurse led clinics including physical examinations is desirable.
The role will support compliance against the 28 day and 62 day standard for Cancer Wait Time guidance, working autonomously and in collaboration with colleagues, proactively identifying potential and actual risks for non-compliance with the pathway, instigating mitigating actions or escalating as appropriate.
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
This advert closes on Thursday 28 Nov 2024