Macmillan Colorectal Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist

Job summary

A part-time job opportunity has become available within the Macmillan Specialist Colorectal Cancer Nursing team at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust. Fancy a change? Join our well-established clinical nurse specialist team, supported by a Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist in Colorectal Cancer, in caring for people being diagnosed and treated for colorectal cancer.

Your role will be to provide information and support to colorectal cancer patients from the point of diagnosis throughout their surgical and oncological management and living with and beyond cancer into their survivorship. As a valued member of the multidisciplinary team, you will play an important role in promoting the best patient experience possible.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide specialist, high-quality, expert nursing care and support for patients and their carers with a Colorectal cancer diagnosis. You will deliver evidence-based individualised patient care according to the patient's changing health care needs, including using holistic needs assessment and responsive care planning (HNA). You will be required to work autonomously and develop collaborative relationships with others across and within professional boundaries. You will work collaboratively to develop patient pathways and be responsible for the continuous review and development of the nursing service. The post holder provides expert knowledge and advice in their own specialist area, ensuring maintenance of clinical excellence underpinned by evidence-based practice. Working with the Multidisciplinary Team and Cancer Management Team, you will ensure that your cancer service complies with the national standards for safety and quality, which are assessed through the National Cancer Peer Review Process and actively contribute to work plans resulting from the Peer Review assessment.

About us

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

We run major acute services at:

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.