Head & Neck Specialist Nurse

Job summary

We are looking for a compassionate, experienced, and motivated nurse to join our established Head and Neck Cancer Nursing Team.

This is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference to people affected by head and neck cancer, providing specialist advice, support, and advocacy from diagnosis through treatment, survivorship, and, where appropriate, palliative care.

You will act as a key worker, managing a caseload of patients, undertaking nurse-led clinics, coordinating care, and working closely with the multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality, personalised care. You will also contribute to service development and improvement, helping shape the future of our specialist nursing service.

We are looking for a nurse with experience in cancer services and an understanding of head and neck oncology. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are essential, alongside the ability to provide compassionate support and communicate complex or sensitive information with empathy and clarity.

As a Band 7 practitioner, you will provide clinical leadership, act as a positive role model, and uphold the Trust's CARE values. You will be autonomous, proactive, resilient, and committed to delivering excellent patient care and experience.

If you are passionate about specialist cancer nursing and want to make a meaningful difference to patients and their families, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

About us

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK

Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person specification

Knowledge Requirements

Essential

• Experience in NHS Hospital Setting
• Experience within Cancer care
• Excellent communicator
• Team player
• Ability to manage case load
• Written and verbal skill
• Audit methodologies

Desirable

• Experience within Head & Neck services

Qualifications

Essential

• NMC Level One Registered Nurse
• Advanced Communication skills training or willing to undertake
• First Level Degree or equivalent experience/ knowledge
• Teaching & Assessing Qualification
• Evidence of Continuous professional development
• Level 2 Psychology training or willing to undertake

Desirable

• Post-Graduate Diploma or MSc in nursing or equivalent higher professional qualifications in Head & Neck or Cancer services
• Independent and Supplementary Nurse Prescribing
• Programme of study relevant to Head & Neck nursing practice
• Formal leadership / managerial experience

Further Training

Essential

• Hope course

Desirable

• Teaching in coping skills, camouflage advice and prosthetics

Experience

Essential

• Extensive post registration experience
• Experience in Head & Neck ENT ,Oncology or palliative care
• Clinical teaching practice
• MDT Working
• Caseload management
• Able to present and receive complex information within the multi professional team
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team
• Demonstrate self awareness and understanding of personal accountability
• Ability to support colleagues, patients and relatives/carers in distressing circumstances
• Evidence of ability to manage change
• Evidence of effective time management
• Undertake audit and/or research in a relevant area

Desirable

• Publications
• Research experience
• IT Skills
• Membership of special interest and professional groups
• Clinical Nurse Specialist experience
• Management / leadership experience

Contractual Requirements

Essential

• 37.5 hours
• Flexible approach to work
• Ability to travel between sites / Trusts