# Lung Cancer Screening Nurse

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** Colchester
- **Region:** East of England
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Nurse (adult and children)
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-08-04T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-21T14:03:33.640Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Essex/Colchester/East_Suffolk_North_Essex_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Lung_Cancer_Nurse/Lung_Cancer_Nurse-v8171947
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8171947?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.esneft.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

We are seeking a compassionate, motivated, and forward‑thinking Lung Cancer Screening Support Nurse to join our expanding multidisciplinary team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in improving early detection, supporting high‑risk individuals, and delivering personalised care to people affected by lung cancer.

You will work at the forefront of targeted lung health interventions, supporting patients through screening pathways, diagnostic investigations, and onward referral. Your expertise will help reduce health inequalities, promote prevention, and ensure that every person receives timely, high‑quality, evidence‑based care.

If you’re passionate about targeted health interventions, early diagnosis, and delivering exceptional patient‑centred care, we’d love to hear from you. This is your opportunity to help shape a service that saves lives and transforms outcomes for our community.

### Main duties of the job

- Provide specialist nursing expertise across the Lung Cancer Screening (LCS) pathway.
- Undertake holistic assessments, risk evaluations, and personalised support for individuals identified through screening.
- Act as a key point of contact for patients, families, and carers, offering clear information, emotional support, and guidance.
- Work collaboratively with respiratory physicians, radiologists, cancer nurse specialists, and primary care colleagues.
- Support shared decision‑making and promote smoking cessation, health improvement, and early intervention.
- Contribute to service development, audit, and quality improvement initiatives.
- Participate in MDT meetings and ensure seamless coordination of care.
- Maintain accurate clinical documentation and uphold the highest standards of professional practice.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

## Person Specification

### Skills

**Essential**

- Able to communicate disease, treatment, and related information to patients, carers and others
- Able to communicate complex/sensitive/technical information, clearly and with empathy in a variety of settings
- Ability to organise, prioritise and co-ordinate your own workload and work autonomously
- Car owner/driver and willing to travel within the remit of the service needs (community setting and hospital setting)

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- Able to demonstrate specialist knowledge of own patient group
- IT competent

**Desirable**

- Clinical knowledge of respiratory illness

### Experience

**Essential**

- Proven post registration experience with proven experience in specialist field
- A broad range of experience working with respiratory patients and their families who have complex psychosocial needs
- Experience of teaching and assessing in clinical practice

**Desirable**

- Can demonstrate evidence of leading service development, implementing change, audit and research

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- RGN (level 1) with NMC
- Evidence of relevant post registration study
- Evidence of studying at a minimum of level 3 (first degree)
- Evidence of relevant CPD

**Desirable**

- Teaching/mentor training
- Leadership qualification
- Advanced communication skills course

## Documents

- [staff networks (pdf, 230.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2724)
- [dbs information (pdf, 272.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1262)
- [apprenticeship handbook (pdf, 373.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2499)
- [esneft values and behaviours (pdf, 74.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2146)
- [value of joining nhs pension (pdf, 125.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2404)
- [job description & person specification (pdf, 544.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10474278)

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