Colorectal Cancer Nurse Specialist

Job summary

• To work as an autonomous, advanced practitioner and effectively deliver an expert nursing service within the specialist area.
• To be responsible for developing and delivering the patient pathway To deliver evidenced based, clinical diagnostic protocols, including the surveillance pathway and Stratified follow up service.
• To support the colorectal CNS team in both surgical and oncology.
• To effectively manage a caseload of patients/clients.
• To ensure that patients and their families are fully informed and supported by providing clinical and social support.
• To assist in the development of evidence based clinical nursing practice in line with current research and guidelines.
• To establish clear lines of communication within the specialty team to ensure cohesive multidisciplinary management of patients.
• To link with healthcare teams in order to increase knowledge and facilitate the care of this group of people in the community.
• To actively involved in the weekly LGI MDT meeting to present patient caseload and follow up.
• To deliver eHNA tailored for each patient.

Main duties of the job

• To develop own nurse led telephone clinics in conjunction with the consultants and the outpatient department, after consultation with the Colorectal Cancer Lead Nurse and key stakeholders.
• To support the Trusts' in achieving compliance with Direct-to-Test, Urgent Suspected Cancer (USC) and Referral to Treatment waiting time targets including 28 day Faster Diagnosis Service.
• To support the Lower GI surgical care pathway in line with the Nurse Specialists Team.
• To actively involved in Peer Review and to ensure mandatory measures for Peer Review are met with evidence e.g. from audits or research.
• To be able to request and interpret investigatory results and determine next pathway stage; including discharge back to GP or referral to specialist services as required.
• Performing Holistic Needs Assessment (HNA) and End of treatment summaries on every patient diagnosed with colorectal cancer.
• Holding additional specialist knowledge and experience to demonstrate a higher level of expertise in the delivery of diagnostic pathway, including LGI/UGI suspected cancer

About us

With over 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, we are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.

Our main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.

As well as acute hospital services, we provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London.

A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.