Lead Cancer Nurse

Job summary

We welcome applications from qualified nurses to support the everyday practice operations and offer clinical guidance, knowledge, and skills as a Lead cancer nurse. The CDSC will assist the Primary Care Network (PCN) in delivering improvements to the services we provide our patients in relation to the following aspects of patient care.

Main duties of the job

Participation in national cancer screening programmes

Ensuring robust and supportive referral practices are in place for patients suspected of having cancer; including use of guidelines, professional development, and safety netting of those referred.

Working collaboratively to shorten timescales of diagnostic intervals.

In support of collaborative working the post holder will form productive and supportive relationships with practiced staff who have the skills, knowledge and remit to contribute to this work eg GP practice non-clinical cancer champions, social prescribers and secretaries.

The post holder will assist practices to evaluate their screening uptake and engage hard to reach populations to participate to reduce health inequalities. This will include working alongside practices to enhance processes to track and follow-up screening non-responders.

Provide advice and support to practices on cancer audit/referral review of cancer diagnoses. To work with practices to collage the learning from case reviews to identify any trends or learning.

Develop with core staff across the PCN consistent safety netting approaches/systems to monitoring patients who have been referred urgently with suspected cancer or for further investigations to exclude the possibility of cancer.

See the attached job description for full details.

About us

Conexus Healthcare CIC is the Confederation for general practice in Wakefield, We have four areas of work.

1.Delivery of high-quality public facing Health and Wellbeing servicesacross the Wakefield District.

2.Delivery of Training, Development and Consultancy support across the United Kingdom.

3.Supporting Our Practices and Primary Care Networks (PCNs).

4.Providing a voice and influence for General Practice in the Health and Care System.

Employer details

Employer name

Conexus Healthcare CIC

Address

Church View Health Centre

Langthwaite Road

South Kirkby

WF9 3AP

Employer's website

https://conexus-healthcare.org/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Conexus Healthcare CIC

Address

Church View Health Centre

Langthwaite Road

South Kirkby

WF9 3AP

Employer's website

https://conexus-healthcare.org/ (Opens in a new tab)

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