Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist (XR07)

NHS; Leeds; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

The NHS is seeking a Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist to lead a dedicated team in the Interventional Oncology sector. This leadership role combines patient-centred care with strategic oversight in a fast-paced environment, ensuring a high standard of experience for oncology patients. Ideal for motivated nursing professionals looking to shape service delivery and innovate in cancer care.

Qualifications

• Significant experience at Band 6 or equivalent in the specialty.
• Experience of managing a team.
• Evidence of continued professional development.

Responsibilities

• Lead and motivate a team of Clinical Nurse Specialists.
• Provide direct clinical support during procedures.
• Promote high standards of clinical effectiveness and patient experience.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical expertise

Communication

Patient-centered care

Education

Registered Nurse (RN Adult or RN Child)

Recognised teaching/assessing qualification

Master Level Degree Education or equivalent experience

Job description

Anexciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and motivated nurse to join ourInterventional Oncology team as a Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist. Thispermanent Band 7 role offers the chance to lead a team of experienced CNS'sdelivering wraparound care to a dedicated cohort of oncology patientsundergoing image-guided treatments.

Youwill work closely with interventional radiologists, oncologists, andradiographers to ensure safe, effective, and compassionate care throughoutthe patient journey. This is a unique leadership role in a fast-paced,technical environment combining strategic oversight with hands-on clinicalresponsibilities.

Expected ShortlistingDate

04/07/2025

Planned InterviewDate

18/07/2025

Main duties of the job

Inthis role, you will:

Lead, motivate, and develop a team of Clinical Nurse Specialists

Provide direct clinical support, including scrub and circulating assistanceduring procedures

Coordinate procedure lists, support in strategic scheduling, managing patientflow, staffing, and resources

Promote high standards of safety, clinical effectiveness, and patientexperience

Drive service development, clinical audits, and quality improvementinitiatives

Mentor and support junior staff through education and supervision

Foster a positive, inclusive, and collaborative team culture

AtLeeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, we are guided by The Leeds Wayour sharedvalues of Patient-Centred, Fair, Collaborative, Accountable, and Empowered.We are committed to delivering excellent care, supporting staff development,and continuously improving the services we provide.

Thisis an excellent opportunity for an experienced and compassionate nurse tostep into a senior leadership role, shape an evolving specialist service, andcontribute to innovation in interventional cancer care at one of the largestand most forward-thinking NHS trusts in the country.

About us

TheRadiology (CSU) plays a crucial role in supporting patient care across theTrust. We provide a wide range of imaging and interventional services,including IR, CT, MRI, Ultrasound, Nuclear Medicine, and X-ray, usingadvanced technology.

Ourteams work closely with all clinical services to deliver timely and accuratediagnostic imaging and treatments. Radiology is a fast-paced, evolvingenvironment offering excellent opportunities for learning and innovation.

Ourskilled staff, including radiographers, nurses, support workers, andconsultants, are dedicated to delivering safe, patient-focused care.Together, we strive to lead in imaging excellence, supporting clinicaldecisions and improving patient outcomes.

LeedsTeaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk'members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job advertsare subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or removeadverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in theshortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while thisprocess is completed, and contact the named contact if you have anyquestions.

Job responsibilities

Thepost holder will be practising as an independent specialist clinicalpractitioner providing patient-centred and evidence-based clinical care,within an agreed scope of competence and practice. The jobholder isresponsible for the management of a defined caseload. The jobholder carriescontinuing responsibility for the assessment of care needs, the development,implementation and evaluation of programmes of care and the setting ofstandards of care.

Thejobholder will provide specialist nursing care, treatment and advice to aspecific patient group and will contribute to the development of thespeciality service. The jobholder will ensure cost effective use ofresources. The job holder will support the development of interdisciplinaryand whole service working. As a rolemodel they will promote the sharing of good practice and delivery of highquality, effective and efficient care. The job holder will provide trainingand education to staff groups, patientsand families/carers.

Thepost holder will work in partnership with the multi-disciplinary team (MDT)to implement and improve the patient pathway and will be expected to developnew skills to further enhance the quality of the service delivered. Whereappropriate, the role will include the day to day leadership and management.

PRINCIPALDUTIES & AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

Leadership

Provide leadership to the clinicalteam working with Matron, develop new roles/ways of working

Provide a visible clinical lead androle model to the nursing and wider team by delivering high qualitycompassionate care.

Support staff to provide efficient,effective, safe and quality care to patients as an expert practitioner.

Deliver a positive patientexperience.

Support in the delivery of aneffective, evidence based, safe, quality service within budgetary envelope.

Responsible for the day to daysupervision of junior clinical staff and students within the specialist team.

Motivate staff in the delivery ofquality patient care.

Has responsibility for the linemanagement of the specialist nursing team including recruitment, performancemanagement and workforce planning.

Deliver an effective qualityservice with budgetary constraints, monitors the delegated budget for thespecialist nursing team work with the Matron to work towards the Nursing,Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals objectives and service improvement.

Supervise clinical delivery of carecompetencies.

Anticipate problems and takepreventative or mitigating actions, or have contingency plans available.

Investigate and respond toaccidents, complaints, untoward incidents and other significant events.

Ensures that workload andperformance monitoring data for the team is collected, collated and utilisedto ensure the effective and efficient working of the team. Reviews thisinformation with Matron on a regular basis.

Work with the Matron in thedevelopment of specific elements of nursing practice, reflecting the CSU andNursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals business plans.

Engage users and carers views onservice delivery and development.

Propose, develop and implementpolicy, protocols and practice guidelines specific to the clinical specialty.

Exercises a personal duty of carein relation to equipment, resource and stock control utilising equipment andsupplies appropriately.

Clinical

Provide high quality care as anexpert practitioner and act as a role model and resource for advice, supportand guidance.

Provides specialised advicecontributing to the diagnosis and care of patients.

Where appropriate to the servicespatient demographic, to developmentally appropriate, young person friendlyhealthcare to support young people; including support for transition, as theymove from childrens into adult services between the ages 11-25 years.

Responsibility for ensuringsetting, monitoring and seeking to continuously improve standards and thequality of patient care.

Undertake clinical procedures wheredexterity and accuracy are required.

Assess, plan, implement andevaluate care and treatments using specialist clinical knowledge and clinicalskills.

Make clinical assessments andtreatment decisions within clearly defined policies and protocols.

Organises own clinical workload.

Undertake duties on wards ordepartments as and when required by service demands or patient need.

Supervise clinical staff to promotethe delivery of excellent clinical standards.

Receives supervision of clinicalcare and outcomes from nurse specialist team leader.

Act in accordance with the relevantprofessional code i.e. NMC.

Fulfil the requirements as directedby the Nursing and Midwifery Council to maintain and revalidate registration.

Ensure and promote the maintenanceof a safe, clean and secure working environment.

Act in such a way that safeguardsthe health and wellbeing of children and vulnerable adults at all times. Isfamiliar with and adheres to, the Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust (LTHT) safeguarding policies.

Raise concerns with regards torisk, danger, malpractice or wrong doing by following the LTHT Whistleblowingpolicy and supporting processes.

Ensure that documentation standardsare maintained in accordance with NMC and LTHT guidelines, whether written orcomputerised.

Promote and maintain positiveworking relationships between all staff, internal and external to the Trust,involved in the care of patients.

Communication

Maintains accurate clinical andother records using the LTHTs documentation.

Support patients and theirfamilies, communicating sensitive condition related information, ensuringthey receive required information to enable them to participate in their caredelivery.

Deliver complex information topatients and staff.

Liaise with external healthproviders and other agencies (as appropriate) to ensure seamless provision ofcare delivery.

QualityImprovement & Research

Improve the quality and safety ofour services by being proactive in promoting and supporting the LeedsImprovement Method.

Participate in quality improvementprogrammes as required.

Keep up to date with andcommunicate service developments, advances and research.

Through the use of audit, localresearch, metrics and feedback continually seek to identify practice thatneeds improvement. Implement and evaluate any resultant improvement plan.

Actively promote patientinvolvement and feedback within service improvements to promote a positivepatient experience

Maintain and sustain the momentumof improvements until they are firmly embedded into the values and culture ofthe clinical area.

Undertake audit programmes specificto client group, treatments and developments.

Help to set, monitor and seek tocontinuously improve standards and the quality of patient care, includingthose standards defined in local and national guidance.

Participate in clinical trials asappropriate.

Work closely with Research andInnovation to promote research, disseminate outcomes and findings to supportevidence based practice.

Educationand Training

Participate in own and othersappraisals and in the development of own personal development plan andperformance review.

Provides specialist training andeducation at post-graduate level within the University settings as agreedwith Matron.

Undertake role specific trainingand competencies.

Provide education and training topatients and their carers.

Keep up to date with developments,advances within the specialty.

Collaborate with other members ofthe team in clinical areas and departments to ensure that the provision ofeducation and training is clear and robust.

Mentorship and supervision ofjunior staff.

Participate in specialist national,regional and local conferences as agreed with Matron. Support staff todeliver evidence based practice and research activities to further enhancepatient care.

Undertake mandatory and prioritytraining within the required time scales

Thisdoes not provide an exhaustive list of roles and responsibilities, and thesemay be subject to change with professional and service developments

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse (RN Adult for adult clinical areas or RN Child for childrens areas (Level 1)
• Recognised teaching/assessing qualification or equivalent demonstrable experience of teaching and assessment
• Evidence of continued professional development
• Master Level Degree Education or equivalent experience
• Extended/ Supplementary Prescribing

Additional Requirements

• Able to fulfil Occupational Health requirements for the post (with reasonable adjustments if necessary), including clearance on blood borne viruses in compliance with Trust Policy
• Ability to travel in between Trust premises and patient homes for posts that involve community visits

Experience

• Significant and recent relevant experience at Band 6 or equivalent within an appropriate specialty
• Clinical audit and standard setting
• Experience of managing a team staff
• Current issues in healthcare

Skills & behaviours

• Motivator of self and others
• Capable of lateral thinking
• Plan specialist nursing provision, including education and training
• Skills and knowledge required to lead and develop team members

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.