Upper GI FDS Clinical Nurse Specialist
Slough, England, United Kingdom Contract Posted 3 weeks ago
Job Overview
Join Our Specialist GI Cancer Team – 12-Month Secondment Opportunity
Are you an experienced Clinical Nurse Specialist looking for your next challenge?
A rare and rewarding opportunity has become available within the Gastrointestinal Clinical Nurse Specialist Team at Wexham Park Hospital for a 12-month secondment as a Faster Diagnosis Standard (FDS) Clinical Nurse Specialist.
This is an exciting role for a motivated and autonomous nurse with a strong background in Upper GI cancers and proven CNS experience. You will have the opportunity to make a real difference to patient outcomes by leading and coordinating care within a dynamic and fast-paced diagnostic service.
Why Join Us?
✔ Play a key role in delivering the national Faster Diagnosis Standard (FDS)
✔ Support patients through one of the most critical stages of their cancer journey
✔ Work alongside a highly skilled multidisciplinary team including consultants, endoscopy, radiology, cancer services, and administrative colleagues
✔ Influence service development and drive pathway improvements
✔ Develop your leadership, advanced clinical assessment, and cancer care expertise
About The Role
As the FDS Clinical Nurse Specialist, you will be at the forefront of ensuring patients referred with suspected Upper GI cancer receive timely, coordinated, and high-quality diagnostic care.
You will act as a dedicated point of contact for patients and their families, providing expert clinical assessment, holistic support, safety-netting, and compassionate guidance throughout the diagnostic process.
Using your advanced clinical judgement and excellent communication skills, you will coordinate investigations, monitor patient progress, identify and address delays, and work proactively with colleagues across services to ensure patients move smoothly through the pathway and receive a diagnosis within the national 28-day FDS target.
We Are Looking For Someone Who
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
For further information regarding the detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the attached job description and person specification documents.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
Join Our Specialist GI Cancer Team – 12-Month Secondment Opportunity
Are you an experienced Clinical Nurse Specialist looking for your next challenge?
A rare and rewarding opportunity has become available within the Gastrointestinal Clinical Nurse Specialist Team at Wexham Park Hospital for a 12-month secondment as a Faster Diagnosis Standard (FDS) Clinical Nurse Specialist.
This is an exciting role for a motivated and autonomous nurse with a strong background in Upper GI cancers and proven CNS experience. You will have the opportunity to make a real difference to patient outcomes by leading and coordinating care within a dynamic and fast-paced diagnostic service.
Why Join Us?
✔ Play a key role in delivering the national Faster Diagnosis Standard (FDS)
✔ Support patients through one of the most critical stages of their cancer journey
✔ Work alongside a highly skilled multidisciplinary team including consultants, endoscopy, radiology, cancer services, and administrative colleagues
✔ Influence service development and drive pathway improvements
✔ Develop your leadership, advanced clinical assessment, and cancer care expertise
About The Role
As the FDS Clinical Nurse Specialist, you will be at the forefront of ensuring patients referred with suspected Upper GI cancer receive timely, coordinated, and high-quality diagnostic care.
You will act as a dedicated point of contact for patients and their families, providing expert clinical assessment, holistic support, safety-netting, and compassionate guidance throughout the diagnostic process.
Using your advanced clinical judgement and excellent communication skills, you will coordinate investigations, monitor patient progress, identify and address delays, and work proactively with colleagues across services to ensure patients move smoothly through the pathway and receive a diagnosis within the national 28-day FDS target.
We Are Looking For Someone Who
- Is an experienced registered nurse with significant CNS experience
- Has strong knowledge and understanding of Upper GI cancers
- Demonstrates excellent clinical assessment and decision-making skills
- Thrives in a fast-paced environment and can work independently
- Has outstanding communication, organisational, and leadership abilities
- Is passionate about delivering exceptional patient care and improving cancer pathways
- Provide clinical support, nursing care and clinical leadership for patients referred on the suspected cancer pathway for UGI cancer.
- Provide expert communication within the role, including an in-depth knowledge and understanding of the diagnostic pathway including FIT.
- Organise the appropriate investigations to either diagnose or rule out an UGI cancer.
- Be confident in referring patients to other specialties that may need further investigations or follow-ups, after the results of investigations that have been requested on the UGI suspected cancer pathway.
- Support compliance against the 28d and 62d standard for CWT guidance, working autonomously and in collaboration with colleagues.
- Proactively identifying potential and actual risks for non-compliance within the pathway, instigating mitigating actions or escalating as appropriate.
- Work as an integral member of the UGI team, collaborating with primary and secondary care clinical and operational teams, to ensure those referred on the pathway receive a high quality, safe, effective and timely diagnostic pathway.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
Frimley Health Trust benefits on Vimeo
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
For further information regarding the detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the attached job description and person specification documents.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered General Nurse
- Current NMC Registration.
- Degree in Nursing
- Post basic Oncology qualification.
- History taking and physical assessment qualification
- Supplementary and independent prescribing qualification.
Essential criteria
- Relevant recent experience in Gastroenterology and endoscopy department.
- Experience in training and education of nurses and other health care professionals.
- Oncology experience
- Management of a team.
- Experience of running nurse-led clinics.
- Previous experience of working as a Clinical Nurse Specialist.
Essential criteria
- Knowledge in managing patients with UGI/LGI disease or cancer.
- Demonstrates good communication and presentation skills, both verbal and written.
- Excellent time management and organisational skills.
- Patient education/counselling skills
- Level 2 Psychology Support skills
- Report writing skills.
- Project management skills.
