Clinical Nurse Specialist - Colorectal Cancer | Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the busy nursing team as a Colorectal Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist at Southend Hospital.

You will deliver a patient-centered, clinically effective, proactive and dynamic service from the time of caner diagnosis, throughout patients treatment through to recovery or follow up, or alternatively supporting with palliative care through to end of life.

The friendly team follows a national and local professional agenda, health care policy and the nursing strategy to ensure a shared, forward thinking approach to the delivery of the service.

You will deliver a patient-centered, clinically effective, proactive and dynamic service from the time of cancer diagnosis, throughout patients treatment through to recovery or follow up, or alternatively supporting with palliative care through to end of life.

Promoting / maintaining Colorectal Enhanced Recovery and Surveillance Programmes.

Performing assessments face to face and over the phone as needed of patient symptoms and holistic needs.

Coordinating patient care and advocate for patients and families.

Signposting and counselling support.

Liaising with other MDT's, coordination between in-hospital departments & relaying that information to patients.

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is now one of the largest trusts in the country, serving a population of 1.2 million people. Our newly formed Trust, comprising acute hospital sites at Broomfield in Chelmsford, Basildon and Southend, is determined to provide the best health services for its local population. We are a well-led, high-performing and innovative organisation working in the best interests of the people we serve.

With a workforce of approximately 15,000 staff, we can now do more and go further in delivering health services to our local communities.

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.