Go back East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Lung Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist
The closing date is 16 March 2026
We are seeking a compassionate, motivated, and forward-thinking Targeted Health Lung Cancer Specialist Nurse to join our expanding multidisciplinary team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in improving early detection, supporting high-risk individuals, and delivering personalised care to people affected by lung cancer.
You will work at the forefront of targeted lung health interventions, supporting patients through screening pathways, diagnostic investigations, and onward referral. Your expertise will help reduce health inequalities, promote prevention, and ensure that every person receives timely, high-quality, evidence-based care.
If you're passionate about targeted health interventions, early diagnosis, and delivering exceptional patient‑centred care, we'd love to hear from you. This is your opportunity to help shape a service that saves lives and transforms outcomes for our community.
Main duties of the job
* Provide specialist nursing expertise across the Targeted Lung Health Check (TLHC) pathway.
* Undertake holistic assessments, risk evaluations, and personalised support for individuals identified through screening.
* Act as a key point of contact for patients, families, and carers, offering clear information, emotional support, and guidance.
* Work collaboratively with respiratory physicians, radiologists, cancer nurse specialists, and primary care colleagues.
* Support shared decision‑making and promote smoking cessation, health improvement, and early intervention.
* Contribute to service development, audit, and quality improvement initiatives.
* Participate in MDT meetings and ensure seamless coordination of care.
* Maintain accurate clinical documentation and uphold the highest standards of professional practice.
About us
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.
We are the largest NHS organisation in East Anglia, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
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Job responsibilities
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* RGN (level 1) – NMC Registration
* Teaching and assessing in clinical practice qualification
* Evidence of relevant post‑registration study
* Evidence of studying at a minimum of level 3 (first degree)
* MSc level or working towards
* Counselling skills
Experience
* Proven post‑registration experience with specialized experience in a specialist field
* A broad range of experience working with oncology patients and their families who have complex psychosocial needs
* Experience of change management and service development
* Experience of audit and research
* Evidence of leading service development, implementing change, audit and research
Knowledge
* Able to demonstrate highly specialist knowledge of own patient group
* Knowledge of clinical audit and research process
* Evidence of CPD
* Understanding of clinical trials
* IT competent
* Use of relevant pharmacology to provide advice to patients/carers/other professionals
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
£47,810 to £54,710 a year per annum pro rata
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