Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to improve health outcomes for people with lung cancer in Herefordshire through specialist clinical practice and participation in the lung cancer screening programme.

The post holder will work as part of the newly established Lung Cancer Screening Team, integrated with the existing Lung Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) service. The role requires advanced clinical expertise, strong communication skills, and the ability to work across organisational and departmental boundaries while contributing to pathway development and system-level service improvement.

The post supports delivery of the whole lung cancer pathway, including: CT-based lung cancer screening for earlier detection, Diagnosis and management of suspected lung cancer, Surveillance of lung nodules and CT abnormalities and Coordination across primary, secondary and tertiary care pathways.

Main duties of the job

•        Work within the Lung Cancer Screening Programme integrated with the Lung Cancer CNS team

·       Provide expert clinical knowledge and specialist support to patients, families and professionals

·       Manage a complex caseload and act as Key Worker for a defined patient cohort

·        Provide holistic assessment and advanced symptom management

·         Interpret investigations and contribute to diagnostic decision-making

·         Present patients at Screening Review Meetings and Lung Cancer pre and post MDT meetings

·         Communicate MDT outcomes sensitively to patients and families

·         Use Advanced communication skills when “breaking bad news”

·         Provide support pre-diagnosis, post-diagnosis and throughout surveillance

·         Deliver nurse-led clinics, face to face and via telephone, including results 

·         Ensure accurate data collection for national and regional audits

·         Implement evidence-based practice

·         Support patient experience and service evaluation

·    Demonstrate innovation, project management and change management skills

·         Participate in local, regional and national professional forums

·         Share knowledge across the MDT

·         Engage in continuous professional development

·         Participate in clinical supervision

·         Monitor resource use and escalate variances

·         Update patient information resources

·         Maintain IT competency and data quality standards

Working for our organisation

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire University NHS FT, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute NHS Hospitals Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care wed want for our family and friends.

More than 3,000 people work for the Trust they tell us its a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time.