Rapid Diagnostic Centre Clinical Nurse Specialist

The Rapid Diagnostic Centre provides a streamlined diagnostic pathway for patients presenting with vague, non-specific symptoms that may indicate cancer or other serious conditions. As a key member of the multidisciplinary team, you will play a pivotal role in coordinating patient pathways, delivering expert clinical assessment, supporting timely diagnosis, and ensuring an outstanding patient experience throughout their diagnostic journey. This is an excellent opportunity for an autonomous and compassionate practitioner who is passionate about early diagnosis, service improvement, and person-centred care. The successful candidate will:

• Act as a specialist practitioner within the RDC service.
• Undertake advanced holistic assessments of patients referred to the RDC pathway.
• Coordinate and manage complex patient journeys from referral through to diagnosis and onward management.
• Ensure patients receive timely investigations and results in line with national cancer targets and Trust standards.
• Provide expert information, advice, and psychological support to patients and their families.
• Work collaboratively with consultants, primary care colleagues, cancer teams, diagnostic services, and allied health professionals.
• Participate in multidisciplinary team meetings and contribute to clinical decision-making.
• Support service development, audit, quality improvement, and performance monitoring.
• Provide leadership, supervision, and education to junior staff and students.
• Act as a patient advocate, ensuring high-quality, safe, and effective care.
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside & Glossop. We provide a range of services both within the hospital and across our community for both adults and children. Our vision is to improve health outcomes for our population and influence wider determinants of health through collaboration with our health & care partners. We have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate:
• Compassion
• Accountability
• Respect
• Excellence
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated nurse to join our Rapid Diagnostic Centre (RDC) team as a Band 7 Specialist Nurse.

Benefits include; flexible working, 27-33 days annual leave plus bank holidays, sick pay, NHS Pension Scheme, free eye tests and health checks, gym discount, free bicycle loan scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, support with stress, bereavement, relationships, finance, and much more.