Colorectal Straight To Test (STT) Nurse

The post holder will work alongside the established colorectal STT nurse as part of the colorectal team to continue to assess patients referred on the suspected colorectal cancer pathway.

Whittington Health NHS Trust introduced the Colorectal Straight To Test (STT) pathway in 2012, successfully delivering effective services for suspected colorectal cancer patient referrals. This service was born out of evidence that patients urgently referred for suspected colorectal cancer do not need to attend an initial outpatients consultation. If the patient is properly assessed at the point of referral they can be booked 'Straight to Test' e.g. colonoscopy. This model reduces the waiting time for the patient to be diagnosed and treated and will reduce the number of times the patient will need to come to the hospital thereby improving the patient experience., Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.