Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic nurse with a passion for cancer to join our lung cancer CNS team 

The successful candidate  will act as a specialist resource to facilitate and co-ordinate the holistic care of patients with lung cancer in the Trust and to provide a high standard service.  

The Band 6 role is a key supporting function to the wider team to enable the optimal care of our patients and to the success of our Trust.  The delivery of high quality, effective and compassionate care is the most important role within the organisation.

Main duties of the job

• To ensure the lung cancer patient journey is patient centred, evidence based with excellent communication between all those involved.
• Where necessary, or when requested, to act as the patient advocate.
• To provide individualised, written and verbal, support & advice around referral to lung cancer clinic, and pre-diagnosis investigations.
• To provide individualised, written and verbal, support and information to patients, their families and carers before, and following, a diagnosis of lung cancer or mesothelioma including the utilisation of an Holistic Needs Assessment.
• To support patients during consideration of treatment options.
• To track the patient’s progress along the cancer journey across all areas of healthcare, acting as a liaison between healthcare professionals.

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.