Clinical Nurse Specialist Thoracic Oncology

Job summary

An exciting 12-month fixed term / secondment opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated, enthusiastic and experienced individual to join our well-established Oncology team at Royal Papworth Hospital. We are an internationally renowned tertiary referral centre for Lung cancer and mesothelioma and are undertaking an exciting transformation program to improve our cancer pathways, to support improved clinical outcomes and experience for our patients.

Main duties of the job

The CNS will be the key contact for patients during their diagnostic investigations and in the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) meetings and clinic settings. Working within a CNS team and MDT, including chest physicians, oncologists, surgeons, pathologists, radiologists, AHPs and administrative support, you will provide comprehensive care to patients with a suspected or confirmed cancer diagnosis. Offering clinical information, expert symptom management advice and emotional support to patients, relatives and carers.

Royal Papworth Hospital is proud to employ a diverse workforce who is encouraged to use their individuality to provide exceptional and personalised patient care. We believe that our strength as an organisation relies on our ability to foster an environment which encourages using our differences as a strength.

Job responsibilities

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

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