# Gestational Trophoblastic Disease and Rare Gynaecological Cancers CNS

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- **Location:** Charing Cross Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Clinical nurse specialist
- **Grade:** Band 7
- **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 pa inclusive
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-29T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-15T14:05:12.958Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Imperial_College_Healthcare_NHS_Trust/Oncology/Oncology-v8365075
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8365075?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.imperial.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

The Gestational Trophoblastic Disease and Rare Gynaecological Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) team supports patients diagnosed with Pregnancy related cancers and Ovarian Germ Cell Cancer within Imperial College.

Previous experience of this tumour type is not essential due to its rare nature. You will be supported in your learning and have the opportunity to gain expert experience and enhanced knowledge, working alongside the multi-disciplinary team. You will provide support, education and specialist advice to patients, carers and health professionals on a range of issues relating to these rare diseases.

Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNSs) deliver personalised care using holistic needs assessment (HNA) to meet changing needs.

Cancer CNSs make sure that people affected by cancer have access to the range of cancer resources and services available, receive appropriately timed information and support and have access to a specialist cancer nurse throughout their entire cancer journey from diagnosis, through treatment to Living with and Beyond Cancer or end of life care.

Cancer CNSs actively engage with the cancer management team, the wider trust, RM Partners cancer alliance and other stakeholders as appropriate to continuously raise the profile of cancer nursing, promote patient centred services, contribute to cancer care within their speciality and ensure high quality cancer care.

### Main duties of the job

- To work as autonomous practitioners providing specialist nursing advice, care and support, facilitating high quality, individualised care to patients and those important to them
- To be aware of their own limitations and recognise the parameters of scope of practice of themselves and other’s.
- To provide support to inpatients and outpatients in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team and in line with local and national targets and initiatives.
- To promote a culture that delivers patient centred care throughout the pathway, contributing to improved patient experience.
- To act as a professional role model, providing expert direct and indirect clinical care, teaching, research and leadership. They require knowledge, skills and behaviours across all four pillars of advancing practice.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

## Person Specification

### Experience

**Essential**

- Relevant and substantial post registration experience at band 6 or above to speciality
- Experience of working as a Clinical Nurse Specialist
- Experience of teaching and assessing others
- Experience of audit and service development

**Desirable**

- Experience of leading and managing
- Research experience

### Education/ qualifications

**Essential**

- NMC registration and a degree in related subject
- Post registration qualification(s) in speciality or relevant subject cancer care)
- Advanced Communication course and Level 2 psychological skills training.
- Recognised teaching qualification or demonstrable teaching experience

**Desirable**

- MSc or MA in related speciality
- Recognised physical assessment module at level 7
- Leadership course
- Quality improvement training

### Skills/knowledge/ abilities

**Essential**

- In depth knowledge of speciality and use of evidence-based practice

**Desirable**

- Ability to lead and influence change
- Ability to design and deliver education programmes

## Documents

- [job description (pdf, 374.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10692154)
- [our strategy 2023-25 (pdf, 230.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=427)
- [functional request form (pdf, 368.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10692155)

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