Colorectal Rapid Access Triage Nurse | Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Crewe

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated and proficient healthcare professional to join our dynamic Colorectal Service. We are seeking an experienced practitioner who can deliver expert, evidence-based practice and provide advanced clinical expertise within this specialist area. As a key member of the team, you will exercise a high level of decision‑making autonomy, responsibility, and accountability within agreed clinical guidelines and protocols. You will contribute significantly to the leadership, development, and supervision of others, supporting both the operational delivery of the service and the progression of enhanced clinical practice across the Trust.

Working both independently and collaboratively with the wider multidisciplinary team, you will play a vital role in meeting the needs of patients and their families, ensuring safe, timely, and effective care. You will also be expected to take an active part in the education, training, and development of colleagues, and to support ongoing service improvement, pathway optimisation, and innovation within colorectal care. This post offers an excellent opportunity for a motivated clinician to shape and influence the future direction of the Colorectal Rapid Access and specialist services, while developing their own advanced practice skills within a supportive and forward‑thinking environment.

• Responsible for leading and delivering the triage of all suspected colorectal cancer referrals.
• Responsible for the ordering of appropriate investigations per-protocol for ‘Straight to Test’ (STT) patients.
• Responsible for first outpatient telephone triage for patients not going to STT.
• Responsible for the review and interpretation of diagnostic results/reports.
• Responsible for enacting an agreed diagnostic grading protocol and implementing protocolised pathway outcomes (e.g. discharge with template letter).
• Management of the Cancer Support Worker, including supervision of communication with patients and other MDT personnel (e.g. preparing patients for their procedures, collating information on the standard of service delivery, communicating ‘next steps’ and ‘no-cancer’ diagnoses).
• Ensuring timely documentation on Somerset Cancer Registry.
• Support the delivery of first outpatient appointments for patients who are not triaged as suitable for STT. Tandem delivery of consultation (with HCP), progressing under supervision towards independent delivery under supervision.

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides a full range of hospital and community services for people across East Cheshire (population 399K) and West Cheshire and Chester (population 357K). The Trust provides high quality planned and emergency care, cardiac, critical care, child health, maternity services and intermediate care at Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford. The Trust provides over 500 beds and employs over 5,100 members of staff. A comprehensive range of community services is provided across 26 medical centres and schools through our Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership.

We have played, and continue to play, a proactive role in the development of Integrated Care plans across Cheshire & Merseyside and our local Cheshire East and Cheshire West Place-based systems. We believe, and it is the cornerstone of our five-year Trust Strategy, there is the opportunity to progress innovative, responsive and effective care in the best setting for the patient, be it in the hospital or out in the community. At Mid Cheshire, our mission is to inspire hope and provide unparalleled care for the people and communities of Cheshire, helping them to enjoy life to the fullest.

We welcome all applicants and assess all job applications based on knowledge, skills and experience needed for the post.

Please see attached job description, please note this is not an exhaustive list of roles and responsibilities.