Adult Nurse Practitioner - Inherited GI Cancer Syndromes

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust

The post holder will be responsible for supporting individuals and families who have been diagnosed with a genetic or familial disorder (Lynch Syndrome, the polyposis syndromes or individuals with a high risk family history of bowel and/or related cancers), in order to minimise their risk of getting cancer.

Working as part of a multidisciplinary team with medical and nursing consultant support, the nurse practitioner will have clinical responsibility for their own caseload and will act as a clinical expert; assessing, planning and delivering care to patients via face to face, video and telephone nurse-led clinics.

As part of the role, the post holder will provide expert genetic counselling in bowel cancer genetics and will be a source of expert genetic information to health care professionals. Working closely with our colleagues in clinical genetics, the post holder will contribute to service development to ensure that genetic testing is appropriately mainstreamed into clinical care.

The post holder will be expected to undertake research and clinical audit in this highly specialist area, ensuring the continuation of clinical excellence, underpinned by research based practice.

Teaching our patients and families about their conditions and raising awareness of these conditions is also an essential part of the role.

Main duties of the job

• Assist the lead nurse with the comprehensive and effective management of patients with inherited and familial gastrointestinal cancer syndromes - polyposis, Lynch and family cancer.
• Assess, plan and implement care, providing genetic counselling and organising predictive genetic blood tests as appropriate.
• Offering screening to newly diagnosed patients, monitoring follow-up procedures and providing specialist advice and support to the patients and their families.
• Specialising in the defined area of gastrointestinal inherited cancer syndromes, providing specialist education, training and support to the multidisciplinary team regionally, nationally and internationally.
• Maintaining the integrity of the specialist database which contains a register of Polyposis and Lynch Syndrome related cancers and other manifestations of the syndromes.
• Undertaking research and clinical audit in own specialist area, ensuring the maintenance of clinical excellence, underpinned by evidence-based practice.

Person Specification Education and Qualifications

• Post graduate qualification in genetic counselling, genomics, colorectal cancer or GI nursing.
• Advanced communication course.
• Educated to degree level.

Knowledge and Experience

• Significant post qualification experience with GI nursing experience.
• Experience in teaching and supporting staff.
• Experience of working independently within a multidisciplinary team.
• Experience in working with patients with inherited GI disorders.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Address

St Marks Centre for Familial Intestinal Cancer

£51,883 to £58,544 a year inclusive of High Cost Area Supplement.

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

337-NP-8600AC-A

Job locations

St Marks Centre for Familial Intestinal Cancer