Lung Cancer Specialist Nurse, Band 6

Gloshospitals; Gloucester; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS pension scheme

Flexible working opportunities

Generous annual leave

Job summary

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Lung Cancer Specialist Nurse, Band 6, 19.5 hours per week, to work across Gloucester Hospitals. You will be a core member of the multidisciplinary team, delivering specialist supportive care and managing patients through the lung cancer pathway.

The role supports personalised cancer care pathways, nurse-led clinics, and the development of risk-stratified pathways to continually improve cancer care for patients and their families.

Qualifications

• Current NMC registration.
• CPD in palliative and/or cancer care.
• Advanced communication skills.
• Significant experience at Band 5 or Band 6.
• Non medical prescribing.
• IR(ME)R training.
• Physical assessment and clinical reasoning course.

Responsibilities

• Provide advice, support and leadership within clinical teams.
• Deliver against departmental and service objectives, achieving quality outcomes and prioritising workload.
• Attend departmental service meetings to influence decisions.
• Participate in lung MDT meetings and communicate outcomes to patients/clinicians.
• Run nurse-led clinics and develop specialist protocols/guidelines.

Skills

Advanced communication skills

Education

NMC registration

CPD in palliative/cancer care

Non medical prescribing

IR(ME)R training

Physical assessment and clinical reasoning

Job description

Go back Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Lung Cancer Specialist Nurse, Band 6

The closing date is 22 October 2026

Lung Cancer Specialist Nurse, Band 6 (19.5 hours a week)

This is an opportunity to develop your clinical & professional practice as a senior nurse within the lung cancer team across Gloucester Hospitals. You will work as a core member of the multidisciplinary team to the highest standard of specialist supportive care managing patients throughout their lung cancer pathway.

The post holder will also support the personalised cancer care agenda and develop risk stratified pathways in order to continue the development and improvement of cancer care provision that is received by our patients, their families and carers.

Additional working pattern details: 2 long days or 3 shorter days

Main duties of the job

The post holder should demonstrate well-developed interpersonal, communication, negotiating and influencing skills demonstrated through experience of working in complex and demanding environments.

Providing advice, support and leadership within clinical teams.

Deliver against departmental and service objectives, achieving quality outcomes and prioritising own workload.

Collect and analyse data from various sources to assess impact of service to look for innovative ways of developing and managing the service more effectively such as digital triage and patient communication.

To attend, in departmental service meetings to ensure involvement in decision making processes.

Attending and participating in the lung MDT meetings ensuring the outcomes are communicated with patients/clinicians in a timely manner.

To use excellent prioritising and time management skills to meet the unpredictable and conflicting needs of the role.

Contribute to the development of speciality protocols and guidelines for a nurse‑led service. Autonomously run nurse‑led clinics ensuring patients have appropriate, timely clinical and practical information and support.

Ensuring patient physical symptoms and concerns are actioned, liaising with the MDT as appropriate.

Evaluate and analyse clinical problems using their clinical knowledge, seeking out and applying relevant evidence, enhanced interpretation of clinical investigations, interventions and skills to make clinical decisions.

About us

We take pride in placing people at the centre of everything we do, working together as a united team. Driven by a shared ambition to continually grow, develop, and learn, we recognise and value every contribution. By combining our experience and skills, we not only support our vibrant, diverse communities, but also support one another.

With a team of over 9,000 employees, we are proud to be the largest employer in Gloucestershire and rank among the top 10 largest Trusts in the South West region. By joining our Trust, you will benefit from an excellent package that includes exclusive benefits, flexible working opportunities and the chance to gain valuable experience in one or both of our innovative hospitals.

As well as generous annual leave allowance, you will have access to the excellent NHS pension scheme, competitive bank rates, discounts at local shops and restaurants, access to two on‑site nurseries, discounted public transport, reward and recognition and a range of health and wellbeing initiatives to support you.

Job responsibilities

Demonstrate and promote a holistic, patient centred style of clinical practice. The post holder will have a critical detailed understanding of theory and practical knowledge of Lung cancer treatment and management. Evaluate and analyse clinical problems using their clinical knowledge, seeking out and applying relevant evidence, enhanced interpretation of clinical investigations, interventions and skills to make clinical decisions. These will include ordering and interpretation of radiological investigations, pathology and haematology and biochemistry.

All used to support the patient treatment care and support.

To use clinical reasoning skills and techniques to assess, diagnose, plan and offer a range of enhanced supportive care options; deliver, evaluate by providing timely information to enable the patient to make informed choices about their treatment.

Supervise and support the Cancer Support Workers to ensure completion of holistic needs assessments and care plans as appropriate

Act as patient advocate for those who have doubts over proposed treatment and those individuals without capacity to consent to treatment.

Within scope of specialty and personal competence, to prescribe medications as an independent nurse prescriber, within the Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Using reasonable adjustments for patients who may have communication, perceptual or cognitive/understanding difficulties.

Respond to distressing situations with composure, maintaining patient safety and taking appropriate actions.

To use excellent prioritising and time management skills to meet the unpredictable and conflicting needs of the service.

Organise and plan own caseload activity to meet the fluctuating needs of the patients and the demands of the service.

Co-ordinating patient care throughout the patient pathway from diagnosis to end of life care, ensuring continuity of care, liaising with and engaging primary, secondary and tertiary services.

To deliver safe care within a challenging and changing clinical environment, using equipment and resources safely and appropriately.

To maintain clear, accurate and concise patient records in line with our Trust policy and professional standards.

Maintain patient dignity and confidentiality at all times.

Participate in and undertake national and local research and audit and implement change as appropriate. Be actively involved in and support departmental education programmes for patient group, clinical staff and LWBC teams.

Develop and implement specialist teaching sessions to support the wider MDT

Comply with Trust and Departmental policies and procedures

Participate in clinical audits and research projects and implement changes as required, including the development, and updating of practice protocols/ guidelines and procedures locally

Contribute to the Clinical Governance and Quality agenda

Develop and share own clinical knowledge with other members of the local and wider clinical team.

Consider own practice and that of others to ensure standards of patient care and experience are continually evaluated and improved.

The post-holder is expected to take responsibility for self development on a continuous basis, undertaking on‑job and other training and contributing to own personal development plan.

Person Specification

Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience

• Current NMC registration
• Evidence of CPD in palliative and/or cancer care
• Advanced communication skills
• Significant experience at Band 5 or Band 6
• Non medical prescribing
• IR(ME)R training
• Physical assessment and clinical reasoning course

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.

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£39,959 to £48,117 a year(pa, pro rata if part-time)