# Macmillan Head and Neck Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/macmillan-head-and-neck-cancer-clinical-nurse-specialist/12cef76b-1f74-4170-ab91-987af257681e - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/macmillan-head-and-neck-cancer-clinical-nurse-specialist/12cef76b-1f74-4170-ab91-987af257681e.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Clinical nurse specialist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £58,133 - £65,261 per annum inc HCAS (pro-rata) - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday) - **Closing date:** 2026-07-10T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-30T11:22:12.030Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/TootingLondon/St_Georges_University_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Surgery_Cancer/Surgery_Cancer-v8120630 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8120630?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.stgeorges.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview - An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and dynamic nurse to join our team of Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialists within the Head and Neck cancer pathway. - St George’s is a tertiary referral centre for Head and Neck surgery and provide surgical interventions for patients fromacross the South West London. - As a pivotal member of the team you will be passionate about the delivery of a high quality, safe and effective care to St George’s cohort of Head and Neck Cancer patients. - You will meet patients pre-diagnosis and act as a key worker for them throughout their cancer pathway. ### Main duties of the job - To provide care for patients with suspected and newly diagnosed Head and Neck cancer patients and their families with particular emphasis on counselling and emotional support, ensuring easy access to telephone support. - To know when to refer on to other professionals for more specialist guidance, support, advice, and counselling. - To Support the Trust in achieving compliance with Direct to Test, Urgent Suspected Cancer (USC) and Referral to Treatment waiting time targets with participation in head and Neck Telephone Assessment Clinic (TAC). - Leading on patient and carer communication issues and co-ordination of the patient pathway for patients referred to the team. - Provides guidance, support, advice and counselling to patients and their family / carers along the patient pathway. - Acting as the key worker or responsible for nominating the key worker for the patients dealing with the team. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see the attached supporting document which contains more and person specification information about the role. ## Job Details An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and dynamic nurse to join our team of Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialists within the Head and Neck cancer pathway. St George’s is a tertiary referral centre for Head and Neck surgery and provide surgical interventions for patients fromacross the South West London. As a pivotal member of the team you will be passionate about the delivery of a high quality, safe and effective care to St George’s cohort of Head and Neck Cancer patients. You will meet patients pre-diagnosis and act as a key worker for them throughout their cancer pathway. ## Job Description To provide care for patients with suspected and newly diagnosed Head and Neck cancer patients and their families with particular emphasis on counselling and emotional support, ensuring easy access to telephone support. To know when to refer on to other professionals for more specialist guidance, support, advice, and counselling. To Support the Trust in achieving compliance with Direct to Test, Urgent Suspected Cancer (USC) and Referral to Treatment waiting time targets with participation in head and Neck Telephone Assessment Clinic (TAC). Leading on patient and carer communication issues and co-ordination of the patient pathway for patients referred to the team. Provides guidance, support, advice and counselling to patients and their family / carers along the patient pathway. Acting as the key worker or responsible for nominating the key worker for the patients dealing with the team. ## Responsibilities Please see the attached supporting document which contains more and person specification information about the role. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Excellent communication Skills **Desirable** - Advanced Communication Skills - Psychological assessment level 2 skills ### Research **Essential** - Knowledge of current clinical and nursing research related to H and N Cancer - Ability to critically analyse data - Ability to carry out audit. **Desirable** - Research Course and/or Experience - Published Work ### Knowledge **Essential** - An understanding of audit, research and evidence based practice - Up to date knowledge of current clinical and professional issues ### Experience **Essential** - 2 Years band 6/7 experience **Desirable** - Counselling Qualification - Head and Neck CNS experience ### Qualifications **Essential** - Current NMC Registration - First Level Degree - Oncology module or relevant qulaification **Desirable** - Masters Degree - Physical Assessment Module - Teaching Experience ### Management and Leadership **Essential** - Evidence of clinical leadership qualities - Evidence of excellent documentation/written skills - Ability to work autonomously or as part of a multiprofessional team **Desirable** - Experience of change management ## Documents - [onboarding roadmap (pdf, 440.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3007) - [ai toolkit for candidates (pdf, 1.9mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2411) - [swl ai toolkit for candidates (pdf, 1.9mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3045) - [macmillan head and neck cancer cns (pdf, 272.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10416778) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.