Job summary
- Main area
- Respiratory
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- 6 months (fixed term for 6 months)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Days, nights, weekdays and weekends.)
- Job ref
- 251-MED7838RESP
- Employer
- Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Respiratory CNS office, E floor
- Town
- Basingstoke
- Salary
- £49,387 - £56,515 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/10/2026 08:00
Employer heading
Lung Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist
Band 7
Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.
Job overview
This role acts as a specialist resource, facilitating and coordinating the delivery of holistic, patient-centred care for individuals diagnosed with lung cancer across the Trust. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring a high-quality service is provided to patients throughout their cancer pathway, working collaboratively with multidisciplinary colleagues to support timely access to care and treatment.
The post contributes to ensuring that all national peer review and quality standards relating to lung cancer services, staffing, and patient pathways are met through a coordinated team approach. Working in close partnership with clinical and operational colleagues, the Band 7 role is integral to the effective functioning of the wider lung cancer service and to achieving the Trust's strategic and operational objectives.
As a senior member of the team, the post holder will provide essential leadership, coordination, and support to enable the delivery of safe, effective, compassionate, and patient-focused care. The provision of high-quality care and an excellent patient experience will be central to all aspects of the role.
The post holder will contribute to service development, performance improvement, and the ongoing enhancement of patient pathways to ensure the best possible outcomes for patients with lung cancer.
Main duties of the job
The post holder is responsible for coordinating and supporting the lung cancer patient pathway, ensuring care is patient-centred, evidence-based, and delivered with effective communication across all healthcare settings. They act as a key point of contact and advocate for patients and their families, providing personalised information, emotional support, and guidance throughout diagnosis, investigation, treatment decision-making, and ongoing care.
The role involves tracking patients across the entire cancer pathway, facilitating timely appointments, liaising with primary care, tertiary and surgical centres, and ensuring seamless coordination between healthcare professionals. The post holder provides psychosocial support, undertakes holistic needs assessments, and promotes a positive patient experience.
In addition, the role supports the multidisciplinary team through education, advice, audit activity, patient feedback initiatives, and participation in network-wide improvement programmes. Responsibility also includes maintaining comprehensive data collection and reporting to support national audits, databases, cancer performance standards, and continuous service improvement.
Working for our organisation
Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.
Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.
We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.
The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.
Tackling Climate Change: Hampshire Hospitals aims to embed sustainability and net zero carbon principles into the delivery of care across all its services. To find out more, search HHFT Climate Action or [email protected].
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
Person specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional UK registration e.g. NMC, HCPC
- Degree level education or equivalent knowledge and skills gained through any combination of alternative study, or employment experience
- Teaching and Assessing Qualification or equivalent study or work experience.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of post graduate training
- Level 5 Certificate/Diploma in Management and Leadership, or equivalent
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Evidence of significant post registration clinical work experience
- Experience of staff supervision and mentorship including, employee relations, performance, conduct and training needs analysis
- Awareness of local and national agenda within the speciality
- Evidence of implementing significant changes or service developments that promote good practice
Desirable criteria
- Experience of workforce budgets and staff development planning
- Understanding of policies and legislation including Clinical, Human Resources, Equality & Diversity, Governance
Skills and Ability
Essential criteria
- Clinical Skills appropriate to the relevant speciality
- Advanced communication skills including; to communicate complex, sensitive or confidential information in an appropriate manner; to liaise and negotiate effectively; to understand and disseminate multifaceted information.
- Customer Service experience i.e. dealing with complaints and to manage any barriers to information
- Ability to work and lead within a multidisciplinary team across an organisation
Desirable criteria
- Highly specialised clinical skills relevant to the speciality
- The ability to work at problems from a unique or different angle.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Mark Summers
- Job title
- Operations Services Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01256 313614
- Additional information
Katy Sadowski
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Medicine Division
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