Lower GI Straight to Test Support Worker | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£25,760 - £27,476 per annum pro rata
Hours:	Part-time
Location:	Sutton in Ashfield, NG17 4JL
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	11 Sept 2026
Closing date:	11 Oct 2026

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Summary

Step into a vital support role within the Lower GI Cancer Service at Sherwood Forest Hospitals, where your contribution will help shape the experience and journey of patients undergoing urgent suspected cancer investigations and treatment. As a Support Worker, you will work alongside the Lower GI Clinical Nurse Specialists and wider Multidisciplinary Team (MDT), providing compassionate, patient-centred support across the colorectal cancer pathway.

This role offers the opportunity to develop specialist knowledge within a fast-paced and rewarding environment, supporting the coordination of care, patient communication, and smooth running of clinical pathways. You will play an important part in the “straight to test” diagnostic pathway, helping ensure patients receive timely investigations, information, and reassurance throughout their care.

Working closely with nursing, medical, and administrative colleagues, you will assist with patient assessments, pathway tracking, wellbeing calls, follow-up of DNAs, clinic and MDT preparation, virtual review processes, data management, and service coordination, helping to deliver safe, effective, and seamless care.

If you are a motivated, compassionate, and adaptable individual looking to make a meaningful difference within cancer and surgical services, this is an exciting opportunity to grow and thrive within a highly valued support role.

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

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Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

This advert closes on Sunday 27 Sep 2026

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