Colorectal Clinical Nurse Specialist

To be professionally accountable for the delivery of standards of professional practice and behaviours as set by the Nursing & Midwifery Council.

To deliver compassionate person-centred care, and treat patients, service users, their families and their carers with consideration, dignity and the respect you would want for yourself or your family.

To promote public health and well-being.

To Be Accountable For

Ensuring safe and effective clinical practice.

Enhancing the patient’s experience.

Ensuring effective contribution to the delivery of the organisation’s objectives.

Efficient and effective use of resources

We are seeking to recruit a highly motivated, committed individual with a background in colorectal, surgical or cancer nursing. This post is for a Band 6 Colorectal Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) role . This is an exciting time as we develop new and innovative services for our colorectal patients. You must be innovative, enthusiastic and an excellent team player. You will join a team of specialist nurses providing specialist nursing care for patients undergoing colorectal cancer treatments including stoma surgery and take part in the 2 week fast track triage service.

Commitment to both the ongoing developments within the colorectal nursing team and your professional development as a clinical nurse specialist are crucial. You will be expected to exercise a degree of professional autonomy and make critical judgments using advanced knowledge and skills to provide the highest standard of patient care. You will have clinical responsibilities and will need to be an effective and supportive role model with the ability to work in a flexible yet organised manner.

You will be educated to degree level with relevant experience within the specialty and have excellent communication skills.

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Rajbinder Khunkun Job title: Nurse Lead : colorectal Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01902 694084

Joanna Ryder

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