Job summary
- Main area
- Cancer Services
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 269-SFT9593
- Employer
- Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Salisbury
- Salary
- £64,455 - £74,896 per annum pro rata if part time
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/02/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Macmillan Lead Cancer Nurse
Band 8b
Job overview
The Lead Cancer Nurse will play a crucial role within Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust in terms of improving the outcome and experience of people whose lives are affected by cancer. The post holder will work closely with the Associate Medical Director for Cancer Transformation, Lead Cancer AHP and Cancer Services Manager to oversee, develop and continually improve cancer services across the organisation.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will have professional oversight of the specialist nursing workforce for cancer, ensuring there is equity in provision for cancer patients across the organisation as well as ongoing development of expertise within the clinical teams.
Support the delivery of the Trust's cancer strategy, supporting the delivery of the Personalised Care and Support agenda, as well as lead on the development and roll out of the existing Pre-habilitation programme for cancer patients. The post holder will be required to have a focus on patient experience and engagement, as well as raising the awareness of inequalities in cancer care.
The Lead Cancer Nurse will be required to participate in forums at a regional level across the Integrated Care System and both the Wessex and SWAG Cancer Alliances, to ensure the Trust is in line with best practice and delivering faster diagnosis and treatment for cancer patients in our community. There will be an expectation that the post holder builds strong professional relationships across both cancer alliance systems.
The Lead Cancer Nurse will also be required to lead on submissions to the Quality Surveillance Team Peer Review process and participate in the internal validation process, as well as lead on the response and actions arising from patient experience surveys, including the National Cancer Experience Survey. When Cancer/Cancer Care is referred to in this JD it is referring to Cancer Services, Oncology and Haematology.
Working for our organisation
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we’re driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.
We are an acute Trust, rated “Good” by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.
We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.
Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don’t just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.
Person specification
Education, Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse (RN – Level 1) Education to a degree level in relevant subject
- Registered with the Nursing & Midwifery Council
- Demonstrates evidence of ongoing continuous professional development
- Post Graduate Diploma or MSc in Nursing or equivalent high professional qualifications in nursing/specialist area
- Teaching and Assessing qualification
- Evidence of extensive expert professional knowledge supplemented by post registration specialist, managerial & leadership training and continuous professional development
Desirable criteria
- Management qualification
- Recognised leadership course
- Quality Improvement training
- Root cause analysis training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Considerable post registration experience and also experience in relevant specialist, or equivalent clinical environment
- Demonstrate ability to implement and manage change effectively
- Able to evidence transferable skills Experience working collaboratively with a multi-disciplinary team
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Thorough and up-to-date knowledge of nursing theory and best practice, particularly within specialty area and the application of this in practice
- Significant leadership or managerial experience
- Extensive knowledge of cancer services, including a thorough understanding of the national cancer strategy and direction of travel for cancer services
- Cancer experience, including experience of managing a multidisciplinary team at a senior level Experience of performance management of services and staff
- Demonstrable experience of working with managers and clinicians at a senior level across an organisation
- Experience in developing cancer nursing strategies
- Experience of working at a senior level in leading a team with experience of team building and roles within teams
- Demonstrable experience of achieving changed clinical practice and improving services to increase quality and effectiveness
- Demonstrable experience of developing staff and teams
- Thorough understanding of equality & diversity and its application to managing self, staff and patients within own area
- Understanding of NMC Code of Practice and requirements of it for the practice & behaviour and its application to the management of staff and self
- Understanding of the principles and application of effective budgetary management
- Understanding of the principles and application of effective staff/HR management
- Understanding of the theory and application of Clinical Governance
- Knowledge of cancer care pathways/clinical guidelines, protocols and their implementation
- Working knowledge and understanding of current issues related to NHS strategy and policy
- Knowledge of using windows office applications and Microsoft teams
- Ability to response quickly and calmly to emergency situations
- Willingness to be flexible with working hours in order to meet service demand
- Ability to travel independently to external meetings when required
Professional development & education
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates evidence of commitment to professional development
- Ability to act as an affective facilitator, clinical supervisor, mentor and facilitator
- Demonstrates evidence of ability to educate others
Audit and Quality
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates ability to use audit and improve quality
- Active engagement with clinical governance audits and service development
Patient Care
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates evidence of well developed clinical practice
- Able to advise on and implement improvements to the quality and efficiency of care for patients in the service
- Demonstrates commitment to an empathetic and caring approach to patients and relatives
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to motivate staff to ensure that patient’s dignity and respect is maintained at all times
- Strong organisational skills – able to organise the workload of the self and others
- Able to accept responsibility for the clinical service delivered under own initiative within boundaries of role
- Demonstrates ability to apply researchbased practice and advocate it to improve the quality and efficiency of the service
- Demonstrates ability to apply researchbased practice and advocate it to improve the quality and efficiency of the service
- Able to delegate duties effectively
- Able to act as an advocate for service users
- Demonstrates ability to ensure that confidentiality is maintained at all times by self and unit staff
- Ability to be assertive when necessary and remain calm in stressful situations
- Strong organisational skills – able to organise the workload of the self and others
- Able to accept responsibility for the clinical service delivered under own initiative within boundaries of role
- Demonstrates ability to apply researchbased practice and advocate it to improve the quality and efficiency of the service
Communication
Essential criteria
- Highly effective communication skills – able to communicate verbally and written to staff, patients and relatives including in situations of conflict and distress, ensuring that communication is tailored to the person being addressed
- Ability to write management reports identifying investigation findings, clearly document with appropriate judgement and actions needed
- Ability to document observations, results, decisions, actions etc. effectively in patient notes and communicate these effectively to appropriate members of the MDT
- Able to gain credibility with and influence fellow clinicians, including influencing clinical changes where appropriate
- Ability to communicate highly complex information with a range of people
Leadership & Management skills
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate effective role modelling, monitoring, feedback, appraisal, mentoring, clinical supervision and reflective practice
- Able to participate in the appraisals of multi-disciplinary professions in line with Trust policy
- Demonstrable knowledge of principles of budgetary management
- Ability to support the management of change effectively
- Able to manage own stress and that of staff
- Able to interview staff effectively in line with Trust policy
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
- Luke Curtis
- Job title
- Divisional Director of Nursing Surgery
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07920560112
- Additional information
Emmy Scutt- Cancer Services Manager- [email protected]
Gavin Lockhart- Associate Medical Director, Cancer Transformation- [email protected]
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