Cancer Care Nurse

Job summary

Haverhill PCN has an exciting, new opportunity for a PCN cancer care nurseto join our teams at Haverhill Family Practice and Unity Healthcare, to cover an initial fixed term contract, on a full-time basis. This position will operate across both practices.

This role is key to developing a whole cancer pathway approach for those patients who are on a suspected cancer pathway from the point of referral to a cancer diagnosis and those living with and beyond cancer and improved quality of life.

Main duties of the job

• Be actively engaged in the setting up and establishment of this new service, actively engaging with other stakeholders to ensure that processes are robust and the service operates within the agreed guidance.
• Coordinate the pre-referral tests required for 2WW referrals within the PCNs.
• Work with the PCN 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.
• 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.

About us

Haverhill PCN is made up of two practices, Haverhill Family Practice and Unity Healthcare. The combined practice list size is approximately 45,000 patients. Haverhill PCN in west Suffolk has a busy and dynamic team where we want individuals to develop, and ideally focus on health areas where you have a real interest supporting the local community. Haverhill PCN strives to develop collaborative working across its member practices, aiming to support and strengthen delivery of primary care services in line with the NHS long term plan. To achieve high standards of patient care centred on the needs of our population, whilst working to support a happy and resilient workforce through the development of robust multi-disciplinary teams.