GI Cancers Clinical Nurse Specialist. | Barts Health NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 03 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £54,320 - £60,981 per annum inc |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 July 2025 |
| Location: | London, EC1A 7BE |
| Company: | Barts Health NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7254467/259-7254467SBH |
Summary
Band 7 GI Cancers Clinical Nurse Specialist
The post-holder will work as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team to provide expert advice and support to patients, carers, and healthcare professionals on GI cancers, across both secondary and primary care.
The post holder will work with the wider GI Cancer team and have close working relationships with the clinical research team, surgical team, medical oncology and clinical oncology colleagues across the Trust. The post holder will possess knowledge and skill across all the different treatment pathways and mentor and support junior colleagues in both CNS roles and across the wards.
To provide current information, support and holistic care to patients and carers with a diagnosis of GI Cancer, ensuring that physical, spiritual, emotional and social concerns are addressed. Maintain effective communication with patients, carers and healthcare professionals, ensuring high quality service delivery.
Sensitively handle difficult situations that often arise involving patients, carers and health care professionals.
Develop local written information particular to the service for service users. Ensure patients and carers are given appropriate written and oral information regarding disease and management in line with agreed Barts Health Standard.
Utilise advanced communication skills to advise and empower other healthcare profession
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachmentWe are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.
This advert closes on Wednesday 18 Jun 2025