Lung Clinical Nurse Specialist

Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Doncaster; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Doncaster is seeking a Band 6 Lung Clinical Nurse Specialist to lead in delivering high-quality patient care. This role involves promoting clinical excellence, working with a multidisciplinary team, and managing an individual caseload. The Trust offers flexible working arrangements and a supportive environment. Benefits include extensive learning opportunities, NHS pension, and various discounts.

Benefits

Extensive range of learning opportunities

NHS Pension Scheme

Generous holiday entitlement

Comprehensive health and wellbeing support

NHS Car Lease schemes

Discounts on restaurants and shopping

Qualifications

• Promote clinical excellence and work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team.
• Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate patients' care considering physical and psychological needs.

Responsibilities

• Hold responsibility for individual patient caseload.
• Provide expert advice and support to patients and relatives.

Job description

Overview

Due to maternity leave an exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Lung Clinical Nurse Specialist to work within the Lung Nurse Team until the end of March 2026.

This is a senior nursing role within the organisation and there is an expectation that the post holder will fully participate in the leadership and delivery of high quality patient care within the Division of Medicine whilst uploading the Trusts 'We Care' values.

Responsibilities

• The post holder will promote clinical excellence through their practice in the specialty and the wider organisation and will work collaboratively in the multidisciplinary team to plan treatment and care of individual patients, whilst holding responsibility for their own caseload of patients.
• The post holder will be supported to work in the established lung nurse led clinics to discuss results, diagnosis and prognosis to patients and their relatives and provide expert advice and support to patients and carers from diagnosis and throughout the patient pathway. Liaising with the multidisciplinary team to provide a high standard of care.
• Whilst working autonomously in assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating the individual patients care taking in to consideration physical, psychological and psych-social requirements.

About DBTH

DBTH is one of Yorkshire's Leading acute trusts, serving a population of more than 440,000. Our services are based over three main hospital sites and several additional services employing over 7,000 colleagues. At DBTH we have a comprehensive framework of behaviours that guide us in our daily working lives, these form the DBTH Way. We pride ourselves on our commitment to the values of We Care and now the DBTH Way builds upon these foundations, providing further clarity on what it means to embody these values in our everyday interactions. As an organisation that supports flexible working, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applicants from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including those with disabilities, members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities.

Benefits

• Extensive range of learning opportunities
• NHS Pension Scheme
• Generous holiday entitlement in line with Terms & Conditions
• Comprehensive health and wellbeing support
• NHS Car Lease schemes and a range of salary sacrifice scheme
• Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping and finance through external providers.