Band 8a Colorectal Cancer Lead-Clinical Nurse Specialist

NHS; Romford; On-site; GBP 59,000 - 67,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a Band 8a Colorectal Cancer Lead-Clinical Nurse Specialist to join their innovative lower Gastrointestinal Team. This role involves providing expert nursing support while leading a specialist team dedicated to high standards of patient-centered care. The successful candidate will have a significant impact on shaping patient care within a supportive and dynamic organization.

Qualifications

• Proven experience working as colorectal cancer CNS.
• Experience of working with advanced cancer patients delivering complex information.
• Leadership and management experience required.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert specialist nursing support and treatment.
• Develop and expand specialist service within governance framework.
• Lead and manage the Colorectal Clinical Nurse Specialist Team.

Skills

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Research and audit skills

Education

Degree level / equivalent or working towards

Non-medical prescribing course

Advanced Communication skills training

Job description

Go back Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

Band 8a Colorectal Cancer Lead-Clinical Nurse Specialist

The closing date is 07 July 2025

The Colorectal service at Barking Havering and Redbrige University Hospitals is looking for an enthusiastic, motivated and innovative nurse to lead the lower Gastrointestinal Clinical Nurse Specialist Team. You will join a highly specialised lower Gastrointestinal Team who delivers a high standard of patient centered care. We have a supportive culture for all staff and by joining us now, you can play a role in shaping our organisation that continues to put patient care first. For further information please contact Petra Harriott-Edwards, Head Nurse for Surgery via email on [e-mail] or by phone on 01708 435 000 ext. 6742

Main duties of the job

To provide expert specialist nursing support, treatment, and leadership as part of the management and consultant team. This will include autonomous practice, assessment and treatment of patients and developing new areas of practice ensuring all quality standards are met. This will include in collaboration with other CNS's and under the managerial supervision, develop and expand the specialist service within BHR clinical governance framework, NICE guidelines and London Cancer Network guidelines.

About us

We're an organisation that is getting better and betterand ourimprovements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with. We're no longer in special measures; we've opened two new theatres at our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal.

We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen's and get rid of corridor care.

Our patients are benefitting from our Women's Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub in Hornchurch.

These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and are providing an extra 88,000 scans a year.

The majority of our 8,000 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

We're looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients.

Job responsibilities

For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.

Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.

All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.

Applications should be made online, however, queries regarding the application process, assistance with completion of the application form or if you require any adjustments (for applicants with a disability) please contact Kaka Adeyemi, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 ext. 5162. Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details above.

Person Specification

Education/ Qualifications

• Degree level / equivalent or working towards
• Non-medical prescribing course
• Advanced Communication skills training

Experience/ Knowledge

• Proven experience working as colorectal cancer CNS
• Experience of working with patients with advanced cancer, delivering highly complex, sensitive and difficult information.
• Leadership and management experience

Skills/ Abilities

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Research and audit skills

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

£59,490 to £66,239 a yearper annum inclusive