# Lymphoma Clinical Nurse Specialist

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** Bury St Edmunds
- **Region:** East of England
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Clinical nurse specialist
- **Grade:** Band 7
- **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 Per Annum, Pro Rata
- **Contract type:** Permanent: Mon-Fri
- **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-07-23T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-09T10:12:18.027Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Suffolk/Bury_St_Edmunds/West_Suffolk_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Nursing/Nursing-v8077985
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8077985?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.wsh.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

The post holder is responsible for providing and co-ordinating care for patients, carers and their families who  have or fear they may have a Lymphoma. This includes the delivery of expert holistic evidence based clinical care to patients with complex care needs and the provision of education for patients carers and staff.

The post holder is expected to work in partnership with the haematology team and all the MDT’s within the Trust  identifying potential lymphoma patients.   To work with haematology and Cancer Management team to improve and develop the service so that it meets  the needs of the patients.

The post holder will act as an expert resource to health care professionals.

### Main duties of the job

For Full Details of the Job Description and Person Specification, please see attached Job Description.

The closing date for this vacancy may change if we receive a strong response. Please ensure that you apply for any post you are interested in as soon as possible.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For Full Details of the Job Description and Person Specification, please see attached Job Description.

The closing date for this vacancy may change if we receive a strong response. Please ensure that you apply for any post you are interested in as soon as possible.

## Person Specification

### Personal Qualities

**Essential**

- Ability to remain calm and work effectively in stressful situations
- Expert role model
- Ability to act independently and delegate appropriately
- Flexible approach to working hours and duties
- Willingness to learn new skills
- Good time management
- Demonstrate commitment to quality service provision
- Professional attitude to work

### Skills and abilities

**Essential**

- Excellent organisational skills
- Ability to record and deal with accurate facts, figures and information
- Expert written and verbal communication and presentation skills
- Ability to plan, organise, prioritise and coordinate work under pressure using own initiative
- Ability to assimilate information and resolve multi-factorial problems
- Ability to think strategically and to participate in service development
- Ability to develop nursing excellence and clinical practice
- Ability to establish effective working partnerships with members of the multi professional team within and outside the Trust

### Experience and knowledge

**Essential**

- At least 5 years post registration experience
- Minimum of 2 years’ experience at Band 6 within Acute Oncology Nursing
- Awareness of Cancer Policy and its application
- Evidence of professional development and its relevant application
- Standard setting and protocol development
- Knowledge of change management process
- Leadership experience
- Computer literate
- Experience of developing, training and education in clinical practice
- Venepuncture and cannulation experience
- Clinical audit
- Initiation and evaluation of evidence based practice
- Intravenous drug administration
- Experience with use of complex medical/clinical equipment
- Cytotoxic drug administration

**Desirable**

- Project Management

### Education and qualifications

**Essential**

- NMC registration Level 1
- Using specialist knowledge to a master’s level or equivalent
- Cancer Nursing Degree or equivalent
- ENB 998/equivalent
- ENB 237/A27 or equivalent

## Documents

- [job description and personal specification (pdf, 305.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10442221)

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