Clinical Nurse Specialist - Colorectal

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Job Summary

• Salary: Competitive (Depending on Experience)
• Hours: 37.5 hours per week
• Location: 33 GP (SW1X 7HY)
• Contract: Permanent, full time

Cleveland Clinic London are looking to recruit a Clinical Nurse Specialist – Colorectal to join our Advanced Practice team with a competitive salary range on offer, dependent on experience. The role is Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm onsite.

The Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) is a highly visible role model to all the nurses within the team and provides clinical expertise, addresses patients’ health concerns and works to promote their health and wellbeing. Using their skills and expertise within their speciality, 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 condition. This role leads to a more positive outcome for patients. The scope of the role is broad, working closely with Consultants in developing and maintaining appropriate standards of care, pre-assessment, in-patient and follow-up care with patient post discharge.

The role is responsible for developing and implementing ongoing competencies and training using evidence-based methodologies that embrace Patient-Centered Care, the nursing professional practice model, and shared decision making.

What will your duties include?

• Puts quality at the heart of practice by delivering evidence based individualised and personalised care through holistic needs assessment, care planning and evaluation of care and all care interventions.
• Acts as a ‘key worker’ for a clinical caseload, throughout the patient journey working to coordinate care and provide easy access for ongoing support for patients and caregivers.
• Actively participates in multi-professional meetings, senior management team meetings acting as patient advocate and representing nursing and service views.
• Promotes self-management, risk stratifying patients into who can self-manage following education, those who will need guided support to self-manage and those who will require ongoing, face to face support, in order to support people to live with and beyond the patient’s treatment.
• Provides specialist education and training to caregivers involved in patient care.
• Promotes the service and clinical excellence by contributing to publishing and presenting innovations, audit and research locally, regionally and nationally.

What we need from you?

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing required.
• Post graduate qualification within specialty required.
• Nursing registration (First Level) through the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) required.
• Nurse Prescribing Course required for specialty (Acute Pain).
• Minimum two years working as a Clinical Nurse Specialist experience required with demonstrable clinical expertise within the speciality.
• Excellent presentation and training skills required, with track record of delivering clinical training courses.

What can we offer you?

• As a private hospital with no shareholders, we reinvest all profits back into our organisation. This allows us to provide meaningful, tailored support and development opportunities for our caregivers - alongside a range of benefits, including:
• 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Double-matched salary exchange pension – contribute 5% and we’ll contribute 10%
• Private Medical & Dental Insurance
• Life Assurance
• Season Ticket Loan & Cycle to Work schemes
• Workplace Nursery Scheme
• Wellbeing Hub with mental health, coaching and EAP support
• Earned Wage Access - get early access to part of your pay when needed
• Access to discounts on food, retail, and more

Who we are?

Cleveland Clinic is one of the leading providers of specialised medical care in the world, providing clinical excellence and superior patient outcomes for almost 6 million patient visits per year across more than 200 locations. We employ over 80,000 caregivers worldwide and continue to drive innovation in healthcare. With over 100 years of history, our “Patients First” philosophy is at the heart of everything that we do.

Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check

This role may be subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order (as amended) and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

As an equal opportunities employer, we aspire to work together to promote a more inclusive work environment, which represents our commitment to celebrate diversity. CCL is committed to applying its Equal Employment Opportunity/Workforce Diversity and Inclusion Policy at all stages of recruitment and privileging. Shortlisting, interviewing and selection will always be carried out without regard to any Protected Characteristics. When aware of the need to do so and when required, CCL will make reasonable adjustments to its arrangements for interviews and to conditions of employment/engagement for disabled applicants to ensure, so far as practicable, that they do not place such applicants at a substantial disadvantage in comparison to non-disabled applicants.