Job summary
- Main area
- Cancer Services
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 230-8628847-CORP-A
- Employer
- George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- George Eliot Hospital
- Town
- Nuneaton
- Salary
- £57,528 - £64,750 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/06/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Lead Cancer Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 8a
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust opened in 1948 and provides a range of elective, non-elective, surgical, medical, women’s, children’s, diagnostic and therapeutic services to a population of more than 350,000 people.
The hub of the Trust is located on the outskirts of Nuneaton and its services cover a large footprint, including north Warwickshire, south west Leicestershire, and north Coventry. We also provide primary and community services across Coventry, Warwickshire and Leicestershire.
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Job overview
Lead Cancer Nurse
37.5 hours per week
Permanent
Salary: £57,528 - £64,750 per annum pro rata
Closing Date: Thursday 25th June 2026
Interview Date: TBC
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In partnership with the Head of Cancer and core Cancer Team, the post holder will facilitate and develop Cancer Services at George Eliot Hospital as part of the West Midlands Cancer Alliance. The post holder will lead all cancer nursing services, acting as an ambassador for cancer nursing care, both within George Eliot Hospital and across organisational and professional boundaries, cultivating a diverse range of services to establish an integrated approach to patient care and delivering quality outcomes in Cancer, Palliative and End of Life Care.
The Lead Cancer Nurse will facilitate the translation of national policy into local delivery and will provide an expert nursing perspective in relation to the planning and delivery of cancer services across the cancer pathway.
Main duties of the job
- Use local, regional and national networks as a focus for professional and service development.
- Exercise leadership in the development of cancer care, to ensure it promotes health and empowers patients, clients and carers by offering appropriate health education information and advice which is culturally sensitive to their needs.
- Effect constant change in the best interests of the patients, staff and wider organisation preventing potential fragmentation and duplication across the developing models of care.
- Demonstrate effective leadership skills in developing patient centred clinical practice [which is patient centred and] irrelevant of the care setting to streamline the patient’s experience. The empowerment of patients and carers will be the focus of service development.
- Maintain an overview of the effectiveness of care and services delivered and advise George Eliot Hospital Nursing and Cancer nursing networks where improvements are required and how these might be managed.
- Lead a Cancer Nurse Forum to achieve agreed local, regional and national targets.
- Act as an Ambassador, ensuring standards for better health and infection control.
- Act as an expert resource person in the development of nursing practice regarding integrated models of care sharing expertise providing ad hoc support advice to teams as required; additionally promote the organisational developments locally.
Working for our organisation
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:
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 and 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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To work with both clinical and operational leads to support the development and provision of excellence in care for cancer patients within George Eliot Hospital.
- To lead on the National Cancer Patient Experience Survey and ensure feedback to the CBU Operational Managers and Senior Nursing Teams. To develop action plans and facilitate appropriate interventions where necessary to improve the Patient Pathway.
- Provide professional leadership for other Clinical Nurse Specialists and Matrons at George Eliot Hospital regarding cancer related issues.
- To ensure a formalised structure for clinical supervision for cancer CNS’s.
- In collaboration with key stakeholders identify and liaise with medical and nursing education across primary and secondary care settings to support the delivery of the Trust Cancer Strategy.
- Working in partnership with the Head of Cancer to facilitate the development of a cancer services strategy for George Eliot Hospital.
- Working in partnership with the Head of Cancer, MDT Leads and Clinical Nurse Specialists; and the CBU Operational Managers to facilitate the development of Site Specific Patient Pathways.
- Promote research into cancer care to ensure that practices in the Trust meet established best practices.
- Promote collaborative working across boundaries, integrating multidisciplinary team working practices, in order to prevent duplication and promote seamless care focused around patients’ needs.
For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to masters level or equivalent experience
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant management and leadership experience at Band 8a within cancer or palliative care services
Desirable criteria
- Specialist nurse experience
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience of nursing cancer patients or palliative care nursing
Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates an understanding of team dynamics, senior leadership skills and is a team player
Skills
Essential criteria
- Highly developed influencing and negotiating skills
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
- Clare Eaglesfield
- Job title
- Head of Cancer
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07827843980
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