Job description
Are you an enthusiastic and dynamic Nurse who is passionate about improving care for women?
A rare and exciting opportunity has arisen for a Nurse Specialist to join our Gynaecology Oncology team at Colchester hospital.
Alongside our lead Nurse Specialist, you will ensure that an effective service is provided for patients admitted for Gynaecology Oncology surgery from pre-admission to outpatient follow up.
These are exciting times within this service and there is lots of scope for developing the service and reviewing clinics provided to improve the care women receive.
You will assist in maintaining, alongside the MDT, an effective, streamlined and efficient service for patients in the South Essex and East Suffolk area in collaboration with other members of the network tumour site group in line with National Cancer Standards and Improving Outcomes Guidance
You will provide a highly developed standard of specialist care, knowledge, advice, information and education underpinned by theoretical knowledge and practical experience to patients, carers, healthcare professionals and relevant others.
You will implement quality initiatives as part of the audit process to evaluate standards of care and service delivery within the nursing team and when appropriate the multidisciplinary team
One of the largest Trusts in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area. We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients’ own homes. You will be joining a team of almost 12,000 amazing colleagues providing care to approximately a million people.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (if applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.
Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.
To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship. All successful applicants will be required to undertake a skills review to facilitate this. For full details please see the attached Apprenticeship Handbook.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.
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For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.