Acute Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist

NHS; Colchester; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Part time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Colchester is looking for a part-time Acute Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist. This role involves supporting oncology patients and managing their care with autonomy. Candidates should have significant oncology experience and be a registered nurse with relevant qualifications. We offer great benefits including a generous pension and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

Flexible working options

Access to NHS discounts

Qualifications

• Significant post registration experience.
• Proven experience in Haematology care/oncology.
• Significant experience at Band 6 or above.
• Participation in service development.

Responsibilities

• Provide early input of specialist care to oncology patients.
• Give advice and implement patient care.
• Work alongside other clinical colleagues.
• Management of the AOS patient caseload.

Skills

Oncology care

Critical judgement

Patient management

Teaching and assessing

Education

Registered Nurse

Relevant Degree or Post-registration qualification

Teaching and assessing qualification

Master's degree or willingness to complete

Job description

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the growing and dynamic Acute Oncology Service (AOS) within the East Suffolk & North Essex Foundation Trust to become an Acute Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist, part time 30 hours per week at Colchester Hospital.

Based within the Acute Oncology Service at Colchester Hospital you will focus on the delivery and management of the Trusts Acute Oncology Team (AOT) helping to support and develop the AOS service throughout the trust.

In this role you will provide specialist oncology advice and support for patients admitted with symptoms relating to cancer and cancer treatments, including the management of emergency presentations. You will also support and manage patients experiencing immunotherapy associated toxicities.

As a Clinical Nurse Specialist, you will exercise a high degree of professional autonomy and make critical judgements using expert knowledge and skills to provide the highest standard of holistic care. This will enable faster and exceptional care of patients with complications from treatment and/or cancer who present acutely unwell.

You will be required to work flexibly across a 7 day service. Due to the nature of this role, you will need experience within the acute oncology service.

Main duties of the job

• Provide early input of specialist care to oncology patients enabling:
  • Safer and better quality of care to patients with complications of chemotherapy, radiotherapy and immunotherapy (early recognition, better treatment, early discharge)
  • For patients with complications of cancer, rapid referral back to the specialist oncology and/or palliative care teams.
• Give advice and implement patient care in an area which requires specific clinical knowledge, skills and experience.
• Work alongside other clinical colleagues in oncology, palliative care, ED, acute medicine, radiology and pathology to ensure quality of care to the patients is maximised. This will include the development of clinical guidelines & education programmes.
• Undertake appropriate investigation of patients who might benefit from treatment for known cancers
• Management of the AOS patient caseload
• Co-ordinate the delivery of an AOS service.

About us

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are the largest NHS organisation in East Anglia, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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Details Date posted

31 July 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£47,810 to £54,710 a year per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

432-HR546-25

Job locations

Colchester Hospital

Turner Road

Colchester

CO4 5JL

Job description Job responsibilities

For full details of theresponsibilitiesand dutiesof this role please see the attached job description.

Job description Job responsibilities

For full details of theresponsibilitiesand dutiesof this role please see the attached job description.

Person Specification Experience Essential

• Significant post registration experience
• Proven experience in Haematology care/oncology
• Significant experience at Band 6 or above within the Acute Oncology Service
• Participation in service development and implementation of change.
• Experience of teaching and assessing in the clinical area
• Experience of developing and undertaking audit
• Evidence of supporting others within the clinical environment

Desirable

• Previous Band 7/CNS experience
• Experience with QSIS (Peer review)

Qualifications Essential

• Registered Nurse
• Relevant Degree or Post-registration qualification in specialist area
• Teaching and assessing qualification.
• Master's degree or evidence of some education at post graduate level or willingness to complete.

Desirable

• Advanced Communication Course
• Psychological Distress training
• Cancer related module or related qualification

Person Specification Experience Essential

• Significant post registration experience
• Proven experience in Haematology care/oncology
• Significant experience at Band 6 or above within the Acute Oncology Service
• Participation in service development and implementation of change.
• Experience of teaching and assessing in the clinical area
• Experience of developing and undertaking audit
• Evidence of supporting others within the clinical environment

Desirable

• Previous Band 7/CNS experience
• Experience with QSIS (Peer review)

Qualifications Essential

• Registered Nurse
• Relevant Degree or Post-registration qualification in specialist area
• Teaching and assessing qualification.
• Master's degree or evidence of some education at post graduate level or willingness to complete.

Desirable

• Advanced Communication Course
• Psychological Distress training
• Cancer related module or related qualification

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information 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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details Employer name

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Colchester Hospital

Turner Road

Colchester

CO4 5JL

Employer's website

https://www.esneft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details Employer name

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Colchester Hospital

Turner Road

Colchester

CO4 5JL

Employer's website

https://www.esneft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)