Band 7 Colorectal Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist

OverviewThe Stoma/ERAS Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) is a key worker role to address patients'' health concerns and promote their health and wellbeing. Using expertise in Stoma Care, the CNS provides physical and emotional support to patients, coordinates their care services, and informs and advises them on clinical and practical issues associated with their illness. This role supports the implementation of the Enhanced Recovery pathway and the CNS role dimensions of expert clinical practice, education, leadership, management and research.

Responsibilities

Assist in the provision of professional and clinical leadership and expertise in the care of the patient with a gastrointestinal stoma, acting as a resource to provide information and support to patients, carers and staff.

Liaise effectively with all members of the Hospital Multidisciplinary Team and Community Team to achieve a seamless specialist service in stoma care.

Help to achieve delivery of gold standards of care to reduce length of hospital stay and readmission rates to achieve parity with the NCL providers.

Lead and contribute to the creation of patient information.

Support implementation of Enhanced Recovery pathway of care for colorectal patients and work with the Multidisciplinary Team to ensure that all aspects of Enhanced Recovery pathway are optimised.

Provide formal and informal training and education within pre-assessment and ward areas to embed the ERAS pathway of care.

Lead and contribute to the development of clinical guidelines and policies both internally and externally.

Provide telephone follow up of patients following discharge from enhanced pathways of care; act as a keyworker for a clinical caseload, coordinating care and providing ongoing support to patients.

Provide professional and clinical leadership, ensuring delivery of excellence in core, specialist and advanced nursing practice, audit, research, and service and practice development agendas.

Identify outcome measures to illustrate the quality of the service with emphasis on patient-related outcome measures.

Recognise and champion innovations in nursing practice, ensuring they are supported, evaluated and contribute to developing an evidence base to meet patient, family, and staff needs.

Communicate highly complex and sensitive information to patients, carers and other staff.

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application please check eligibility under the UKVI points-based system. If offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, pre-employment checks may include verification of identity and right to work remotely via TrustID, digital address checks, and potential DBS checks as appropriate. The trust uses electronic starter forms; information is securely stored and used to set up the employee record. More information is available at the Trust’s official sources. The Trust reserves the right to communicate through official channels and will not request payments from applicants.

Our trust comprises multiple hospitals and community services, with a mission to deliver world-class care underpinned by teaching and research. We are committed to equality and diversity and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. We offer opportunities for flexible working and development across our network of ..... full job details .....