Job summary
- Main area
- Cancer
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent: Cross site working within University Hospitals Sussex County Hospital
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 279-7574611-OCT25
- Employer
- 279 University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Worthing Hospital and across site
- Town
- Worthing
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Macmillan Associate Nurse Specialist Lower GI Team
Band 6
About our Trust
At UHSussex we’re proud to be at the heart of the NHS. As one of the UK’s largest acute trusts, we’re a leading example of the excellence, the ambition and the values that have embodied the NHS for over 70 years.
Our hard-working, talented and dedicated people work together towards a common goal – to deliver Excellent Care Everywhere for our patients, our people and our communities. Whatever your role here at UHSussex you will play a part in driving us forwards and in improving the lives of patients across Sussex.
At UHSussex, diversity is our strength, and we want you to feel included to help us deliver Excellent Care Everywhere. Your uniqueness and experiences will be part of our creative and innovative community where everyone is encouraged to succeed. We have a range of staff networks to help break down barriers, and can offer a buddy to help new members settle in. We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 3) and a Veteran Aware Trust.
We value compassion, inclusion and respect as our core values. We treat our patients and staff with the same compassion and empathy we expect for ourselves. We’re here for them when they need us, and we go above and beyond to meet their needs. This can be seen in our wellbeing programme for staff which is extensive and designed to support you when you need it, including where possible, flexible working to support work life balance - because we know that to look after others we must first look after ourselves.
As a university trust and a leader in healthcare research, we value learning, teaching and training so that we can be the best that we can be. From the moment you start with us and throughout your career we will help you to grow and develop. We hope that in choosing UHSussex you are choosing a long and happy career where you will be able to see the difference you make and feel valued for all that you do.
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We look forward to receiving your application and the start of your journey with UHSussex.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for someone who is highly motivated and looking to develop their career in cancer nursing within the Colorectal Cancer Team. The post is a band 6 role with the opportunity to undertake relevant training and education. The Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) team for colorectal cancer is looking for motivated, flexible, and resilient band 6 cancer nurse specialist to join our team.
The Colorectal Cancer CNS team cross-site collaborates to ensure a seamless pathway for our patients. We are passionate about developing and improving cancer services.
Working with the guidance and support of the CNS Leads and wider CNS teams, the post holder will provide individualised patient-centred care for those who have been diagnosed with colorectal cancer.
We are a dynamic, motivated, and supportive team, who work flexibly to meet the needs of the whole service and improve it while supporting each other. The cancer division is currently developing consistent standards of care and collaborative working across the Trust.
They will be instrumental in reviewing and improving communication and pathways between the multidisciplinary teams involved in the patient's care and management.
This post would be ideal for nurses with a back ground of colorectal surgical/acute care or cancer nursing experience.
We strongly encourage informal visits, email or telephone contact about the post.
Main duties of the job
- Support patients and colleagues at breaking bad news and through the investigation/staging pathway
- Contribute to the personalised care of the patient.
Provide appropriate information and advice to patients and others affected by cancer - Provide a responsive service to queries and concerns - being able to triage and make appropriate clinical decisions, working within your limitations referring to senior colleagues as necessary
- Signpost and refer to services appropriately, such as counselling, and palliative care.
- Provide support to junior members of the team.
- Liaise effectively with members of the multi-disciplinary teams, including oncology, stoma care and ERP.
- Provide cross-cover across disease site teams as required.
- Work effectively and collaboratively with the CNS teams across UHSussex and with our partner organisations.
- Be a support and mentor to junior staff members.
- To actively lead on and contribute to service development - including developing appropriate KPIs that are measurable which demonstrate service improvement.
Working for our organisation
At UHSussex, diversity is our strength, and we want you to feel included to help us always deliver Excellent Care Everywhere, as shown in our Outstanding for Caring CQC rating. Your uniqueness and experiences will be part of our creative and innovative community where everyone is encouraged to succeed. We have a range of staff networks to help break down barriers, and can offer a buddy to help new members settle in. We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 3) and a Veteran Aware Trust.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see JD and person specification for full details
To include but not limited to:
- Attendance at the Multidisciplinary meetings and clinics
Triaging helpline contacts and making clinical decisions appropriate to your grade. - Contact, according to standards of care, from point of diagnosis through staging, treatment and transition to palliative care as required
- Completion of Holistic Needs Assessments at appropriate points of the patient pathway
- Signposting and making appropriate referrals
- Liaise regularly with oncology, stoma care and ERP teams.
- Contribute to the service development of individual and wider cancer CNS teams.
- Presence at breaking bad news clinics as required
- Delivering and supporting patients when receiving life-altering / limiting news
- Demonstrate effective and compassionate enhanced communication skills
- Ensuring pathways for investigations and treatments are timely - managing and escalating as required any concerns that may impact the diagnostic and treatment target dates
- Working clinically autonomously to provide advice in response to unscheduled contacts from patients and professionals and in nurse-led clinics
- Reviewing current practice and working collaboratively to improve, including the development of nurse-led clinics
- Contribute to effective teamwork
- Contribute to audit.
- Working in line with trust values and the NMC code of conduct
This role is eligible for visa sponsorship under the UK Visas & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker route however sponsorship can only be provided where applicants meet the specific requirements set by UKVI, including the relevant skill and salary thresholds (£25000), and any role-specific criteria.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NMC registration
- Educated to Post Graduate Diploma level or equivalent level of experience
- Evidence of relevant further study
- Oncology &/or specialty related qualification or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- Advanced Communication Skills training
- Psychological assessment skills Level 2 training
- Research qualification
- Recognised teaching qualification or prepared to work towards
- Masters level learning or prepared to work towards
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Relevant experience at band 6
- Demonstrable enhanced communication skills
- MDT / cross boundary working
- Service development / improvement / change management experience inc audit and data analysis
- Demonstrates commitment to personal and professional development
- Leadership and mentorship experience
- Relevant post-registration experience in cancer, palliative care or the specialty
Desirable criteria
- Breadth of nursing experience
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Essential criteria
- Evidence of having championed diversity in previous roles (as appropriate to role).
- Evidence of having undertaken own development to improve understanding of equalities issues
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Liz Coni
- Job title
- Lead Colorectal Cancer CNS
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07826 891243
- Additional information
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