Head & Neck Specialist Nurse

Forest Hospitals Nhs Foundation Trust; Sutton-in-Ashfield; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a compassionate Band 7 nurse to join the Head and Neck Cancer Nursing Team. You will lead nurse-led clinics, manage a caseload, and coordinate care across the multidisciplinary team.

The role focuses on specialist cancer nursing from diagnosis through treatment and survivorship, with opportunities to contribute to service development while upholding CARE values and patient-centered care.

Qualifications

• Experience in cancer services and an understanding of head and neck oncology.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are essential.
• Ability to provide compassionate support and communicate complex or sensitive information with empathy and clarity.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of head and neck cancer patients.
• Undertake nurse-led clinics and coordinate care.
• Work closely with the multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality, personalised care.
• Contribute to service development and improvement within the specialist nursing service.

Skills

Cancer services experience

Clinical leadership

Effective communication

Empathy

Job description

We are looking for a compassionate, experienced, and motivated nurse to join our established Head and Neck Cancer Nursing Team.

This is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference to people affected by head and neck cancer, providing specialist advice, support, and advocacy from diagnosis through treatment, survivorship, and, where appropriate, palliative care.

You will act as a key worker, managing a caseload of patients, undertaking nurse-led clinics, coordinating care, and working closely with the multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality, personalised care. You will also contribute to service development and improvement, helping shape the future of our specialist nursing service.

We are looking for a nurse with experience in cancer services and an understanding of head and neck oncology. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are essential, alongside the ability to provide compassionate support and communicate complex or sensitive information with empathy and clarity.

As a Band 7 practitioner, you will provide clinical leadership, act as a positive role model, and uphold the Trust's CARE values. You will be autonomous, proactive, resilient, and committed to delivering excellent patient care and experience.

If you are passionate about specialist cancer nursing and want to make a meaningful difference to patients and their families, we would love to hear from you.

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.

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