Band 7 Colorectal Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS healthcare provider in England seeks a Stoma/ERAS Clinical Nurse Specialist to lead patient care in stoma management. The ideal candidate will coordinate care, support patients emotionally, and liaise with healthcare teams to optimize recovery pathways. Competitive benefits and opportunities for professional development are provided.

Benefits

Flexible hours

Generous benefits

Training opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in stoma care or related clinical areas.
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
• Strong communication skills for complex patient interactions.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership in gastrointestinal stoma care.
• Liaise with multidisciplinary teams for seamless patient service.
• Conduct follow-ups for patients post-discharge.

Skills

Expert clinical practice

Leadership

Patient communication

Job description

The Stoma/ERAS CNS is a key worker role to address patients’ health concerns and work to promote their health and wellbeing. Using their skills and expertise in Stoma Care, the CNS provides physical and emotional support to their patients, coordinates their care services, and informs and advises them on clinical and practical issues associated with their illness. This leads to a more positive outcome for patients. The post will incorporate the CNS role dimensions of expert clinical practice, education, leadership, management and research and support the implementation of the enhanced recovery pathway.

Responsibilities

• To assist in the provision of professional and clinical leadership and expertise in the care of the patient with a gastrointestinal stoma, acting as a resource to provide information and support to patients, carers and staff.
• To liaise effectively with all members of the Hospital Multidisciplinary Team and Community Team to achieve a seamless specialist service in stoma care.
• To help to achieve delivery of gold standards of care to reduce length of hospital stay and readmission rates to achieve parity with the NCL providers.
• To lead and contribute to the creation of patient information.
• Support implementation of Enhanced Recovery pathway of care for colorectal patients and work with the Multidisciplinary Team to ensure that all aspects of Enhanced Recovery pathway are optimised.
• To provide formal and informal training and education within pre assessment and ward areas to embed the ERAS pathway of care.
• To lead and contribute to the development of clinical guidelines and policies both internally and externally.
• Provide telephone follow up of patients following discharge from enhanced pathways of care.
• Act as a keyworker for a clinical caseload, working to coordinate care and provide easy access for ongoing support to patients.
• Provide professional and clinical leadership, providing a highly visible and authoritative presence ensuring the delivery of excellence in core, specialist and advanced nursing practice, audit, research, and service and practice development agendas.
• To identify outcome measures which illustrate the quality of the service with a particular emphasis on establishing ways to show patient related outcome measures.
• Recognises and champions innovations in nursing practice ensuring they are supported, evaluated and contribute to develop an evidence base to meet the needs of the patients, families, relatives and staff.
• Communicates highly complex and sensitive information to patients, carers and other staff.

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6 million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17 million tests.

Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top.

For more information please follow linkhttps://www.royalfreelondonjobs.co.uk/

This advert closes on Monday 15 Sep 2025