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Band 7
Clinical Nurse Specialist - Rapid Diagnostic Centre 
Part time 18.5 hours per week
Permanent contract


This is your chance to work in a forward thinking organisation, in a role which supports the challenging and life-changing impact of a cancer diagnosis for our patients.

Whatever you’re looking for in your next career move, you’ll find it all at Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust (ICFT). We currently provide both community and hospital based services and are implementing new models of integrated care working with partners. Our belief is ‘that Everyone Matters’. Our values are clear and we would welcome any applicant who’s values and behaviours align with ours which demands respect for everyone; the motivation to learn; the ability to be a professional role model, caring and compassionate; with a communication style which is open and honest.

We want talented people from all backgrounds to choose to join our diverse teams, and so we’ll support your work-life balance with flexible and agile working options. Naturally, you’ll be passionate and committed to both patients and our people, and would uphold excellent clinical standards of care, a culture of patient and staff safety and continuous improvement.

This role is a new and exciting opportunity in the Trust for you to take your career to the next level.

Main duties of the job

• RDC offer a GP urgent referral service for patients with non-specific symptoms which could indicate cancer, as well as additional site specific Two Week Wait pathways.
• RDC provide a rapid evaluation of the patient to reach a definitive diagnosis, advice to the patient on management of their condition, signposting to appropriate support services and rapid onward treatment should cancer be diagnosed.
• Be a point of contact for patients/carers for defined episodes/pathways of care and provide clinical care, specialist nursing advice and psychosocial support.
• Accept referrals to agreed criteria, and work in partnership with other professionals to deliver coordinated programmes of care effectively and referring patients to other practitioners as required.
• Deliver expert nursing care to patients in agreed practice settings, working as part of nursing/MD teams.
• Escalating when appropriate and deemed necessary within professional judgment.
• Provide appropriate education to patients and their families to promote health and encourage self-care.
• To make independent clinical decisions and initiate investigations, care/treatment and technological intervention within an agreed framework.
• Following completion of the non-medical prescribing course and registration with the NMC, undertake non-medical prescribing in accordance with the Trust non-medical prescribing policy.

Working for our organisation

Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside & Glossop. We provide a range of services both within the hospital and across our community for both adults and children. Our vision is to improve health outcomes for our population and influence wider determinants of health through collaboration with our health & care partners. 

We have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate: 

• Safety 
• Care 
• Respect 
• Communication 
• Learning 

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population. 

We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian & minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ & Disabled people. 

Benefits include; flexible working, 27-33 days annual leave plus bank holidays, sick pay, NHS Pension Scheme, free eye tests and health checks, gym discount, free bicycle loan scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, support with stress, bereavement, relationships, finance, and much more.