Cancer Care Nurse - United Kingdom - NHS

Description

Are you passionate about making a real difference in cancercare? Do you thrive in a dynamic, collaborative environment where your skillsand expertise can drive positive change? If so, we have the perfectopportunity.

East Suffolk Primary Care Network (ESPCN) is seeking twodedicated and experienced Cancer Care Nurses. One post will cover mid-Suffolk(Eye to Stowmarket) for 34 hours per week and the other Ipswich & Felixstowe for 30 hours per week.

What We're Looking For

NMC Registered Nurse with a strong background in cancercare with a passion for making a difference.

High levels of initiative, self-organisation, andconfidence in interacting with colleagues.

More about Us

ESPCN is a collaborative network of GP practice in EastSuffolk. We work together along with community, mental health, social care, pharmacy, hospital, and voluntaryservices to provide integrated health and care services to our 130,000patients. The role will be employed by Suffolk Primary Care, an at-scaleprimary care provider covering 8 practices in East and West Suffolk.

Main duties of the job

Your Role

As a PCN Cancer Care Nurse, you'll play a pivotal role in driving forward our cancer care agenda. Your responsibilities will include:

Conducting Cancer Care Reviews for our patients, ensuring the very best personalised care and support.

Supporting 2WW suspected cancer pathway referrals into secondary care, ensuring all pre-referral tests are completed.

Scoping community services to aid in early cancer identification and linking into local communities and voluntary sector organisations.

Leading the development of health promotion pathways and driving improvements in the quality of Cancer Care Reviews in primary care post-diagnosis.

About us

SPC is an innovative partnership of Suffolk GP surgeries.

Doctors and practice staff share resources and work together to ensure patients continue to receive high quality healthcare.

Suffolk Primary Care is committed to a policy of equal opportunities in employment. Applicants will ideally be fully vaccinated against Covid.

Benefits of working for SPC include:

The NHS Pension Scheme is a defined benefits scheme

Life insurance

Family benefits including an adult dependents pension and childrens pension

Ill health benefits

Electric Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme

No credit check

Fully comprehensive insurance

Servicing and tyres

Breakdown cover

Up to £2,000 contribution from SPC subject to conditions

Proper Pay & Cost of Living Benefits

Living Wage Foundation Accredited

GP Remote Working

Eye Care Vouchers Health Service Discounts

Annual Leave - Minimum 33 days including bank holidays FTE with enhancements for long service

Enhanced Maternity & Paternity terms

High street discounts through our own online portal

Technology and Homewares Salary Sacrifice schemes with Currys and John Lewis

Cycle to Work Salary Sacrifice Scheme

Gym Salary Sacrifice Scheme

Job responsibilities

Job Summary

As part of East Suffolk PCN, your role is to develop andimplement a comprehensive cancer pathway approach, aligning with the NHS LongTerm Plan's goal of earlier cancer diagnosis.

You will collaborate closely with system partners to ensureseamless coordination of care for patients on cancer pathways. This includesfacilitating timely referrals, providing specialist advice, and supportingpatients living with and beyond cancer to enhance their quality of life.

You will forge relationships with community services,secondary care, and PCN practices to ensure early symptom identification,supported referrals, and robust safety measures. Additionally, you will leadeducational initiatives, contribute to multi-professional healthcare teamtraining, and drive service development through clinical audit and leadership.

By working collaboratively with system colleagues, you willaddress variations and inequities in cancer care, ultimately improving patientpathways across primary, community, and secondary care settings.

Scope of the Role

To support the 2WW suspected cancer pathwayreferrals into secondary care, by ensuring all pre referral tests arecompleted. Working within an agreed framework that includes safety netting andreturning to the referrer.

To scope the community services available thatsupport early identification of cancer, there are some health inequalitieswithin identifying early cancer at an early stage. This role will link intolocal communities and Voluntary sector organisations within the local area tosupport education and awareness.

To be the PCN point of contact for cancer insupporting other practice nurses and administration staff to identify thesupport patients may require that are having cancer treatments and living withand beyond cancer within the PCN.

Lead on the development of a Make Every ContactCount (MECC) through embedding a health promotion pathway for those patientswho have been referred on a cancer pathway and are discharged followingsecondary assessment. Those patients who undertake risk taking behaviour suchas smoking or excess alcohol may be our future cancer patients.

To lead improvements in the quality of CancerCare Reviews (CCR) completed in primary care post diagnosis.

To support the development of innovations acrossall aspects of the cancer pathway.

Clinical Responsibilities

Be actively engaged in the setting up andestablishment of this new service, actively engaging with other stakeholders toensure that processes are robust and the service operates within the agreedguidance.

Be responsible for coordinating the pre referraltests required for 2WW referrals within the PCNs, interpret results of relevantpatient investigations in conjunction with clinicians and where indicatedprovide appropriate management as directed by the clinical team with next stepswithin the protocol led pathway.

Be responsible for working with the referring GPfor safety netting patients who are on a cancer pathway until point ofdiagnosis or discharge.

To complete and maintain accurate records ofpatient interactions, pre-diagnostic/ referral interventions clinical narrativeand outcomes, ensuring that patient confidentiality is adhered to within thePCN Information Governance guidelines.

To undertake holistic needs assessments ofidentified patients, enabling timely support and advocacy of patientspersonalised care needs providing relevant information and psychologicalsupport; advising patients and their identified carers of expected next steps.

Actively monitor and escalate issues regardingthe patient referral and next steps to the responsible clinician.

Develop and participate in the promotion ofpatient-centred care and establish and maintain a supportive relationship withthe patient and their family, in making informed decisions about their carefrom the point of suspected cancer referral.

Develop a continued updated knowledge of thecurrent services available for patients with complications from their treatmentbut also services to offer on-going support in primary care into survivorship.

Developing the service to include a regular faceto face clinic for patients with higher support needs who are having treatmentor are on a personalised follow up pathway.

Person Specification Experience

• Proven experience working within cancer care pathways.
• Demonstrated experience in service development and implementation.
• Experience in collaborating with multi-professional teams and stakeholders.
• Experience in clinical audit and service improvement initiatives.
• Primary Care experience
• Setting up and maintaining systems and processes.
• Previous experience in a leadership or managerial role within healthcare.
• Experience in delivering educational initiatives and training sessions

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.