Colorectal Clinical Nurse Specialist

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated, enthusiastic and experienced nurse to join our colorectal team at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust on the Wexham Park site.
Your role will support patient's on the 'Enhanced Recovery Pathway' and also deliver both face to face and telephone clinics for patients who have undergone colorectal surgery for bowel cancer in line with the new stratified pathway. The role also supports patients on a best supportive care pathway, offering advice and guidance to patients in the community with uncurbable cancer., To be a point of contact/Key Worker for patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer at diagnosis, staging, during treatment and in the follow up period, both face to face and via the telephone, and in helping to deliver the enhanced recovery programme (ERP) at ward level.

If you have experience in caring for patients with colorectal cancer, within general surgery or endoscopy nursing, we would love to hear from you.
This is a challenging but hugely rewarding position for which you will require excellent communication skills, be willing to learn and have a desire to succeed. You will be fully supported in this by the existing team.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviors that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical, and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties

Detailed job description and main responsibilities
+ The post-holder will act as a Keyworker for a defined group of patients diagnosed with colo-rectal cancer providing a link between patients and health care professionals across primary, secondary and tertiary care and act as an advocate and ongoing support for patients/families.
+ The post-holder will support the development and evaluation of the colo-rectal cancer service to improve and maintain standards of patient care and promote a seamless service within a multi-disciplinary framework.
+ The post-holder will support the delivery of a comprehensive nurse-led service that is holistic in its approach, evidence based and meets the individual needs of colo-rectal cancer patients.
+ The post requires the ability to work autonomously whilst being supported within a well-established cohesive nursing team.
+ Work towards being a clinical expert in colo-rectal cancer with good communication skills. The role requires the ability to work autonomously and independently but within an integrated collaborative team.
+ The post-holder will ensure their role reflects the core components of the clinical nurse specialist which includes clinical practice, management, education, research and audit, taking into account the national cancer agenda and its impact on service delivery.
Please see job description which is attached for detailed job description.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR - Epic - went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.