Job overview
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Uro-Oncology Prostate Patient Led Follow Up Specialist Nurse
Do you deliver compassionate excellence? Do you want a new challenge? If yes, then read on….
About the OUH Stratified Prostate Pathway Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust delivers a risk-based, patient-centred approach to prostate cancer follow-up. The Stratified Prostate Pathway supports tailored care based on clinical risk, enabling eligible patients to transition to patient led follow up (PLFU). This model reduces unnecessary hospital visits while ensuring robust PSA surveillance and rapid access to specialist care when needed. It empowers patients through education and streamlined communication, aligning with national best practice in cancer survivorship.
Informal visits are strongly encouraged.
Main duties of the job
The band Specialist nurse will play a pivotal role in this pathway, supporting patients through tailored surveillance and transitioning eligible individuals to patient led follow up (PLFU). This involves remote monitoring of PSA levels, symptom assessment, and ensuring rapid access to specialist care when needed. The role also includes patient education, clinical decision-making, and collaboration across multidisciplinary teams to deliver safe, efficient, and empowering care aligned with national best practice.
Develop and provide comprehensive clinical care, specialist advice, and support to patients on uro-oncology prostate patient led follow upservice.
Work as an autonomous, specialist practitioner alongside members of the multidisciplinary team in the prostate urology service.
Role will include working alongside the assistant pathway co-ordinators and the clinical nurse specialist team.
Flexibility within the uro-oncology service to ensure appropriate specialist cover.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. For more information on OUH please view
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.
We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.