Two Rivers Medical Centre
Location
Ipswich, Suffolk | United Kingdom
Job description
About the Role
Two Rivers Medical Centreis looking to recruit a Cancer Care Nurse to join our multi-disciplinary team, to help us to transform and modernise pathways of care, enabling the safe and effective sharing of skills across traditional professional boundaries.
The main responsibilities of the role include:
- Support the 2WW suspected cancer pathway referrals into secondary care, by ensuring all pre referral tests are completed. Working within an agreed framework that includes safety netting and returning to the referrer.
- Work for North East Ipswich to scope the community services available that support early identification of cancer, there are some health inequalities within identifying early cancer at an early stage. This role will link into local communities and Voluntary sector organizations within the local area to support education.
- Be the PCN point of contact for cancer in supporting other practice nurses and administration staff to identify the support patients may require that are having cancer treatments and living with and beyond cancer within the PCN.
- Lead on the development of a Make Every Contact Count (MECC) through embedding a health promotion pathway for those patients who have been referred on a cancer pathway and are discharged following secondary assessment. Those patients who undertake risk taking behaviour such as smoking or excess alcohol may be our future cancer patients.
- Lead improvements in the quality of Cancer Care Reviews (CCR) completed in primary care post diagnosis.
- Support the development of innovations across all aspects of the cancer pathway.
- Prioritise own workload and manage time effectively
- Ensure that all interactions with patients, relatives and colleagues are conducted in a polite and respectful manner
- Establish effective working relationships with other healthcare professionals whose role impinges on the Macmillan cancer nurse role e.g. GPs, vague symptoms CNS, pre-diagnosis CNS, clinicians, allied health professionals and community care teams.
- Contribute to the development and implementation of evidence-based protocols and guidelines for treatment and care of patients and lead in implementation of these guidelines.
- Assist in the investigation of clinical incidents or complaints relating to care of patients within your care and support any required change to nursing or medical practice.
- Identify the need for service development to improve clinical effectiveness and efficiency
- Fully evaluate the service and be actively involved in business planning for future provision and sustainability with the PCN and SNEEICS colleagues.
- Actively participate in internal and external meetings including the service improvement and other reviews.
Please see the attached job description for full details.
About the Candidate
Are you an experienced healthcare worker, looking to expand your contribution to healthcare and personal job satisfaction? If so, this could be the opportunity for you.
The successful candidate will demonstrate flexibility in attitude and behaviour. They will be keen to undertake new ways of working and delivering healthcare, committing to under-taking the professional development required to adapt to changing circumstances.
We are looking for:
- Clinical experience in caring for patients with cancer.
- Experience in either primary care, community care or voluntary sector organisations.
- Ability to work confidently under own initiative, prioritizing workload and balancing competing demands.
- A confident user of all IT clinical systems.
About Us
As an employee of Two Rivers Medical Centre, you will enjoy the following benefits:
- NHS pension scheme
- Proper pay - Living Wage Foundation Accredited
- Remote working
- Eye-care vouchers
- Health service discounts
- Annual Leave: minimum 33 days FTE, with enhancements for long service
- Enhanced maternity & paternity terms
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
Please note this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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