OAFU Nurse

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated nurse to join our Open Access Follow Up (OAFU) service. OAFU is a remote monitoring service for patients after completion of cancer treatment. This stratified follow up supports patients to self-manage, reducing hospital attendances and providing a better patient experience, while still safely providing regular monitoring for cancer recurrence. This service is currently primarily offered to Breast, Colorectal and Prostate patients.

We are looking for a nurse to provide clinical support and expertise to the team of cancer support workers. You will primarily focus on supporting patients to transition from regular clinical follow up to remote monitoring. Providing holistic needs assessments for patients while supporting self management and delivering health & wellbeing interventions. You will support the admin team with care co-ordination, complex care planning including referral triage & discharge and support with helpline calls for patients entering the remote monitroing pathway.

The ideal candidate will have advanced communication skills, experience of holistically supporting and assessing patients, and established administrative skills; including excellent ICT skills with a good understanding of Excel.

This role is a rare opportunity for a band 5 nurse, offering the chance to provide high quality support and care in an autonomous nursing role, that can influence the cancer patient experience.

Main duties of the job

• To provide high quality, effective, individualised care to all patients that is compassionate and caring.
• To support patients health and wellbeing after cancer treatment, with a particular focus on promoting self-management
• To work under the direction of the Patient Support Supervisor to deliver the stratified pathways for post cancer treatment
• To assess holistic care needs and develop, implement and evaluate them with necessary supervision, signposting or referring patients to the relevant support
• To effectively liaise and communicate with primary care services to ensure patients are suitably supported on a stratified follow up pathway
• To keep up to date with skills and knowledge

About us

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities. We encourage staff to have the Covid vaccination to protect themselves, patients, other colleagues as well as the wider community.

Please note it is an operational requirement to comply with infection prevention and control procedures within the Trust such as lateral flow testing, handwashing and the wearing of masks, according to the procedures in place at any time or location.

As part of our continued response to Covid19 we are still conducting the majority of our interviews virtually.

We welcome discussions about flexible working and encourage a range of flexible working opportunities wherever we can.

Employer details

Employer name

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Address

Charing Cross Hospital

London

W6 8RF

Employer's website

https://www.imperial.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Address

Charing Cross Hospital

London

W6 8RF

Employer's website

https://www.imperial.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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