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Metastatic Urology Clinical Nurse Specialist
The closing date is 07 May 2026
We are looking for an experienced, motivated, and compassionate nurse to join our team as a Specialist Urology Cancer CNS, supporting patients across the entire pathway, including those living with metastatic disease.
This is a dynamic and rewarding role where you will act as a key worker, providing expert clinical care alongside vital psychological support to patients and their families. You will play a central role in coordinating care across the multidisciplinary team, ensuring patients receive seamless, high-quality, and person-centred care when they need it most.
You will have the opportunity to lead and develop nurse-led services, shaping the future of urology cancer care within the organisation. This includes driving innovation in clinical practice, contributing to education and training, and maintaining and advancing your diagnostic and therapeutic expertise.
As part of this role, you will also contribute to ongoing service development, ensuring care delivery aligns with national cancer standards. Through active involvement in audit, evaluation, and continuous improvement, you will help enhance outcomes and patient experience.
What we're looking for:
* A skilled and experienced nurse with a passion for cancer care
* Strong clinical knowledge within urology and/or oncology
* Excellent communication and leadership skills
* A proactive approach to service development and improvement
* Commitment to delivering compassionate, patient-centred care
Main duties of the job
* Provide expert specialist nursing care for patients with metastatic disease.
* Act as a named key worker, offering ongoing clinical, emotional, and psychological support to patients and their families/carers.
* Coordinate complex care pathways, ensuring timely access to investigations, treatments, follow-up, and supportive services.
* Work as an integral member of the multidisciplinary team (MDT), contributing specialist nursing expertise to treatment planning and decision-making.
* Undertake clinical assessment, including recognition and management of treatment-related complications.
* Provide specialist advice and education to patients, carers, and healthcare professionals to support informed decision-making and self‑management.
* Support patients with metastatic and advanced disease, including symptom management, escalation of care needs, and palliative care coordination where appropriate.
* Maintain high-level communication across primary, secondary, and tertiary care settings to ensure continuity and consistency of care.
* Contribute to service development, pathway redesign, and quality improvement initiatives within urology cancer services.
* Participate in and lead audit, evaluation, and data collection to ensure compliance with national cancer standards and best practice guidelines.
* Deliver and support education and training for staff, contributing to the development of nursing and multidisciplinary practice.
About us
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke‑on‑Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we’re highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.
All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.
UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co‑created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.
At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.
Job responsibilities
This post will provide a specialist urology cancer nursing service across the full patient pathway, including care of those with metastatic disease. Act as a key worker, delivering expert clinical and psychological support to patients and carers, and coordinating care within the multidisciplinary team. Lead and develop nurse‑led services, education, and clinical practice, while maintaining advanced diagnostic and therapeutic skills. Contribute to service development and ensure compliance with national cancer standards through active participation in audit and review processes.
Person Specification
Essential Qualifications
* Registered Nurse on NMC Register
* Degree in Nursing or health/nursing related studies or evidence of continuing academic progression in combination with equivalent experience
* Oncology experience and recognised certified course
* ENB 998 cert in teaching or equivalent
* Health Assessment
* Evidence of Masters level study
* Nurse Prescribing
Knowledge, Skills, Training and Experience
* Minimum of 3 years post registration experience to include 1 years of management/leadership experience at band 6
* Experience in a leadership role
* Formal leadership and management training
* Speciality knowledge Oncology+/-Urology
* SACT Training
* UKONs Triage
Personal Qualities
* Able to use own initiative
* Clinical reasoning, Problem solving and independent decision making
* Understanding the ability to manage change
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.
Address
£49,387 to £56,515 a year, pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part‑time
Reference number
205‑7950602
Job locations
Royal Stoke in Stoke‑on‑Trent and County Hospital in Stafford
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