Lung Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to improve health outcomes for people with lung cancer in Herefordshire through specialist clinical practice and participation in the lung cancer screening programme.

The post holder will work as part of the newly established Lung Cancer Screening Team, integrated with the existing Lung Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) service. The role requires advanced clinical expertise, strong communication skills, and the ability to work across organisational and departmental boundaries while contributing to pathway development and system-level service improvement.

The post supports delivery of the whole lung cancer pathway, including: CT-based lung cancer screening for earlier detection, Diagnosis and management of suspected lung cancer, Surveillance of lung nodules and CT abnormalities and Coordination across primary, secondary and tertiary care pathways.

Main duties of the job

• Work within the Lung Cancer Screening Programme integrated with the Lung Cancer CNS team

• Provide expert clinical knowledge and specialist support to patients, families and professionals
• Manage a complex caseload and act as Key Worker for a defined patient cohort
• Provide holistic assessment and advanced symptom management
• Interpret investigations and contribute to diagnostic decision-making
• Present patients at Screening Review Meetings and Lung Cancer pre and post MDT meetings
• Communicate MDT outcomes sensitively to patients and families
• Use Advanced communication skills when “breaking bad news”
• Provide support pre-diagnosis, post-diagnosis and throughout surveillance
• Deliver nurse-led clinics, face to face and via telephone, including results
• Ensure accurate data collection for national and regional audits
• Implement evidence-based practice
• Support patient experience and service evaluation
• Demonstrate innovation, project management and change management skills
• Participate in local, regional and national professional forums
• Share knowledge across the MDT
• Engage in continuous professional development
• Participate in clinical supervision
• Monitor resource use and escalate variances
• Update patient information resources
• Maintain IT competency and data quality standards

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further and more details surrounding the job description and main responsibilities, please view the attached job description and person specification.