Two Rivers Medical Centre is looking to recruit a cancer care nurse to join our dedicated team, on a full time basis, to help us to transform and modernise pathways of care.
The main responsibilities of the role include:
- Support the 2WW suspected cancer pathway referrals into secondary care, by ensuring all pre referral tests are completed.
- Scope the community services available, that support early identification of cancer, there are some health inequalities within identifying early cancer at an early stage.
- Be 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.
- Lead on the development of a Make Every Contact Count (MECC) through embedding a health promotion pathway for those patients who has been referred on a cancer pathway and are discharged following secondary assessment.
- Lead improvements in the quality of reviews completed in primary care post diagnosis.
- Support the development of innovations across all aspects of the cancer pathway.
- Assist in the investigation of clinical incidents/complaints relating to care of patients within your care.
- Fully evaluate the service and be actively involved in business planning for future provision & sustainability with the PCN and SNEEICS colleagues.
Please see the attached job description for full details.