George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
Lead Clinical Nurse Specialist - Oncology
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Lead Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) in Oncology
Job Details
- Hours: 37.5 hours per week
- Contract Type: Fixed term for 12 months - Secondment to be considered
- Salary: £57,528 - £64,750 per annum
- Closing Date: Tuesday 8th September 2026
- Interview Date: TBC
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About the Role
We have an exciting opportunity to join our Oncology Service as a Lead Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS), working across all tumour sites. This is a newly created, fixed term position for 12 months. Secondment opportunities will be considered.
As the lead CNS, you will be expected to provide clinical leadership and professional support to the Oncology CNS team, promoting high standards of patient care and driving service development. The role will also involve delivering education, mentorship, and professional development across the team.
The role will involve the autonomy of running your nurse-led follow-up clinics supporting patient pathways and will require you to support prescribing activities.
Responsibilities
- Lead, manage, develop, and support the provision of the Oncology Service, delivering high-quality care.
- Demonstrate a high level of expertise within the Oncology service providing advice, education, and support to staff, patients, their families, and carers.
- Responsible for the ongoing development of clinical practice and standards of care within the service, including the development of policies, procedures, and protocols and guidelines in collaboration with other members of the multi-disciplinary teams.
- Practice autonomously within the Oncology service, encompassing the skills of advanced clinical assessment and non-medical prescribing, examination, diagnosis, and treatment within an agreed scope of practice.
- Ensure safe treatment, referral, follow-up, and discharge of patients within the service.
- Act as a specialist resource/clinical expert for the Trust and provide specialist advice in relation to the care of patients.
- Provide a range of educational and training programs for the multidisciplinary team, patients, families, and carers in regards to Oncology.
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Our Vision
Here at George Eliot, our vision to 'excel at patient care' takes centre stage. An ever-evolving, clinically-led acute service provider, we are on a journey to continually provide high-quality, safe, and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly, and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper; they bond us together, reflect our ambition, and shape who we are.
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Our Values
- Effective Open Communication
- Excellence and safety in everything we do
- Challenge but support
- Expect respect and dignity
- Local health that inspires confidence
Benefits
- On-site nursery
- 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays
- Cycle to work scheme
- Flexible working
- In-house training and development
- Buying and selling of annual leave
- Subsidised restaurant
- Tranquillity garden
- Generous subsidised on-site parking
If you are applying for a Domestic Assistant or Health Care Assistant role, you may be eligible for the refer a friend scheme – find out more here: https://www.geh.nhs.uk/about-us/people-and-workforce/vacancies/refer-friend-scheme
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Dawn Monaghan
- Job Title: Head Of Nursing
- Email Address: dawn.mongahan@geh.nhs.uk
- Telephone Number: 02476 351351
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