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Clinical Nurse Specialist Lung Cancer
| Posting date: | 11 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | £47,810.00 to £54,710.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £47810.00 - £54710.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 November 2025 |
| Location: | Plymouth, PL6 8DH |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9216-25-1509 |
Summary
1. Is a nurse expert and lead specialist in the site specific field of cancer management. As Lead specialist Nurse for the lung cancer team the CNS works across divisional and organisational boundaries with liaison across individual trust boundaries within the Peninsula Cancer Network. 2. Is a keyworker for the lung cancer patient case load, supporting data collection Will have continuing responsibility for the co-ordination and organisation of individual treatment programmes for patients within the site specific cancer group throughout the disease trajectory and works to develop communication across divisional and organisational boundaries. This post is a key role in the multidisciplinary team. 3. Provides a consultancy role to junior CNS and other health care professionals across the hospitals in regard to specialist cancer nursing advice. 4. Carries a caseload of patients (approx. 100 New Patients per annum) with complex needs and is able to undertake advanced nursing assessment, address complex needs and provide support within their specific field. 5. Acts as a teacher, advisor, resource and support to patients within the site specific cancer group and their carers and to other health care professionals as required. 6. Is the lead for service development leads and advises on audit and research projects and develops educational packages according to need of care. 7. Responsible for providing daily support to the Multi-disciplinary Team (MDT) co-ordinator in tracking patients across the pathway in line with Cancer Waiting Time Targets. 8. Delivers the post-surgical Nurse-Led Follow-Up Programme. This will involve accepting referrals, maintaining the database, contacting patients by telephone prior to surveillance CT scans, collecting and scrutinising the reports, and in collaboration with the consultant surgeon determining whether the patient requires further annual surveillance or escalation to clinical assessment, relaying the results to the patient in a timely manner, and requesting the next surveillance CT. Audit of the programme will be required, to include patient satisfaction surveys, 9. Development of a patient group for lung cancer survivors, for patient education and support.