Acute Oncology Nurse Specialist

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Stevenage is seeking an Acute Oncology Nurse Specialist to deliver high-quality, patient-centered care. The ideal candidate will provide support for patients experiencing acute cancer symptoms and work collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary team. Candidates should possess strong communication and clinical skills, with a commitment to ongoing professional development. This full-time role includes varied shifts and offers a chance to make a significant impact in patient care.

Benefits

Flexible working patterns

Positive work-life balance

Qualifications

• Registered nurse with oncology/haematology/SACT/palliative experience.
• Evidence of continuous professional development is required.
• Advanced communication skills or willingness to undertake.

Responsibilities

• Provide advice and support to patients with acute cancer symptoms.
• Communicate condition-related information to patients and relatives.
• Ensure appropriate patient information is provided.

Skills

Good verbal and written communication skills

Ability to work unsupervised and manage own workload

Effective interpersonal skills

Flexibility and adaptability

Commitment to multi-disciplinary working

Education

Registered nurse education to Degree level

Advanced clinical assessment or willingness to undertake

Non Medical Prescribing Qualification or willingness to undertake

Job description

Go back East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Acute Oncology Nurse Specialist

The closing date is 25 November 2025

We are recruiting for a Acute Oncology Nurse Specialist who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated Registered Nurse with Oncology/Haematology/SACT/Palliative experience, to join our dynamic and expanding Acute Oncology Service (AOS) Nursing Team as a Specialist Nurse, to deliver responsive, high quality, patient centred care.

This post will enable the current team in providing advice and support to patients who experience acute symptoms of their cancer and/or treatment; holding the telephone triage during day time shift and be part of the 5‑day week team working collaboratively with the multi‑disciplinary team (MDT) to ensure efficient patient pathways, positive patient experience and safe discharge.

The role will consist of 3 shifts of 9.5 hours and 1 shift of 9 hours.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

As part of the AOS Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNS) team in providing advice and support to patients who experience acute symptoms of their cancer and/or treatment.

Communicating very sensitive condition‑related information to patients and relatives, requiring high levels of empathy and reassurance. This includes highly complex information that needs to be conveyed in easily understood language.

To be flexible in the approach to the clinical area and to provide cover for any area specified acting as professional role model providing direct and indirect clinical care, teaching and research.

Ensuring the provision of appropriate verbal and written patient information, thus empowering the patient to make informed decisions.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient‑led Trust where dedicated staff provide high‑quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications / Training

• Registered nurse education to Degree level or willingness to undertake
• Evidence of continuous professional development
• Advanced communication skills/counselling qualification or willingness to undertake
• Advanced clinical assessment or willingness to undertake
• Non Medical Prescribing Qualification or willingness to undertake
• Teaching qualification
• Research Module
• Masters Degree

Previous Experience

• Significant relevant experience in the Specialty and ability to demonstrate expert nursing skills
• Accept personal accountability for own practice
• Experience of formal/informal teaching
• Experience of initiating change
• Experience of Clinical Governance
• Understanding evidence-based practice

Skills

• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Capable of working as an integral member of a small team
• Flexible and adaptable to changing situations due to workload and colleague's needs
• Ability to undertake teaching of staff and patients
• Ability to work unsupervised and manage own workload; effective time -management
• Effective interpersonal skills
• Ability to lead developments in practice
• Commitment to multi-disciplinary working
• Demonstrate analytical and judgemental skills
• Ability to quickly appraise situation and act accordingly

Other Requirements

• Experience and evidence of engagement around equality, diversity and inclusion issues in relation to policy, service development and service delivery in respect of both services to users and the management of staff
• Role model our Trust values every day
• To act in a professional manner at all times in accordance with NMC Code of Conduct
• Capable of developing liaisons with other practice areas/academic situations
• Knowledge of broader issues related to specialty - political and Trust

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.

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust