Acute Oncology Nurse Specialist | East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is seeking an Acute Oncology Nurse Specialist to join their team in Stevenage. This role involves delivering high-quality patient-centered care, supporting those with acute cancer symptoms, and collaborating with medical teams. The ideal candidate will be a Registered Nurse with experience in Oncology, capable of empathetic communication. Flexible work arrangements are available.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with experience in Oncology, Haematology, or Palliative care.
• Ability to communicate complex medical information clearly.
• Empathy and reassurance in patient interactions.

Responsibilities

• Provide advice and support to patients experiencing acute symptoms.
• Conduct telephone triage during daytime shifts.
• Collaborate with the multi-disciplinary team for patient care.

Skills

Oncology experience

Palliative care

Communication skills

Empathy

Education

Registered Nurse qualification

Specialist training in Oncology/Haematology

Job description

We are recruiting for an 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 daytime shift and being 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 three shifts of 9.5 hours and one 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.

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

Communicating very sensitive conditions 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 a 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.

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
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

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 flexibly 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.

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

This advert closes on Tuesday 25 Nov 2025.