Job overview

We are recruiting for a Colorectal Cancer Nurse Specialist who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients. 

We are looking for a highly motivated experienced Nurse who is committed to delivering excellent patient care and who takes pride in what they do and will work within the colorectal nursing team to improve the patients' journey. As an experienced nurse you will work alongside nursing and medical colleagues in surgery and oncology to facilitate the best experience and care for individuals with colorectal disease and suspect or confirmed diagnosis' of colorectal cancer.

Excellent communication skills are paramount, an ability to prioritise workload, whilst working as part of a team is also essential.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be responsible for providing expert specialist clinical advice for patients, carers and health care professionals.

You will liaise with all appropriate members of multi-disciplinary team, ensuring a seamless service between acute and primary care services.

You will also assist in developing the skills of generalist nurses, and other health professionals (including doctors) to enable them to provide a high standard of care for patients within the specialty.

In addition, the successful candidate will contribute to the development and implementation of evidence-based policies / protocols and guidelines within the specialty in collaboration with other professional groups and users.

Working for our organisation

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients.  We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees.  This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.