Overview
The Stoma/ERAS CNS is a key worker role to address patients’ health concerns and promote their health and wellbeing. Utilizing expertise in Stoma Care, the CNS provides physical and emotional support to patients, coordinates care services, and informs and advises patients on clinical and practical issues associated with their illness. The post incorporates the CNS role dimensions of expert clinical practice, education, leadership, management and research and supports the implementation of the enhanced recovery pathway.
Responsibilities
* Assist in providing professional and clinical leadership and expertise in the care of patients with a gastrointestinal stoma, acting as a resource to provide information and support to patients, carers and staff.
* Liaise effectively with all members of the Hospital Multidisciplinary Team and Community Team to achieve a seamless specialist service in stoma care.
* Help deliver gold standards of care to reduce length of hospital stay and readmission rates to achieve parity with the NCL providers.
* Lead and contribute to the creation of patient information.
* Support the implementation of the Enhanced Recovery pathway of care for colorectal patients and work with the Multidisciplinary Team to ensure all aspects of the Enhanced Recovery pathway are optimised.
* Provide formal and informal training and education within pre-assessment and ward areas to embed the ERAS pathway of care.
* Lead and contribute to the development of clinical guidelines and policies both internally and externally.
* Provide telephone follow-up of patients following discharge from enhanced pathways of care.
* Act as a keyworker for a clinical caseload, coordinating care and providing easy access to ongoing support for patients.
* Provide professional and clinical leadership, delivering excellence in core, specialist and advanced nursing practice, audit, research, and service and practice development agendas.
* Identify outcome measures illustrating the quality of the service, with emphasis on patient-related outcome measures.
* Recognise and champion innovations in nursing practice, ensuring they are supported, evaluated and contribute to developing an evidence base to meet the needs of patients, families, relatives and staff.
* Communicate highly complex and sensitive information to patients, carers and other staff.
Context and About the Trust
The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our staff care for over 1.6 million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17 million tests. For more information please follow the link https://www.royalfreelondonjobs.co.uk/
Additional Information
This vacancy has been advertised in accordance with the new NHS pay rate which will take effect from autumn 2024. Please note if your employment starts before the 24/25 pay scales are implemented you will be paid under the 23/24 pay scales and any backpay will be adjusted accordingly. Further information can be found at https://www.nhsemployers.org/articles/pay-scales-202425.
This advert closes on Monday 15 Sep 2025
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