Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to appoint a Lung Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist on a permanent contract, to complete the team of 8 lung CNS's, 2 pathway nurses and 3 assistant practitioners. This role will be for the North East Sector of NCA (Fairfield, Rochdale and Oldham).

The very well established lung cancer nursing team aims to provide a high quality service which is evidence based to support lung cancer and mesothelioma patients and their families / carers. Through collaborative working with members of the multi-disciplinary team, they provide specialist nursing intervention, specialist psychological, emotional, social, practical and financial support which is responsive to the patients and families' needs and is equitable and accessible to all.

The Lung Cancer Nursing team work very closely with all staff involved in the care of cancer patients but, in particular Respiratory Physicians, Oncologists, Ward staff and other Lung Cancer MDT members. The team liaise closely with both tertiary and primary care partners. The team are required to work with patients who present either via the 2 week wait referral system or present acutely to the service.

Main duties of the job

• Provide support to patients and their families / carers from diagnosis through to palliative care by providing education, information, resources.
• Provide support to staff caring for patients with lung cancer and mesothelioma.
• Liaise with primary, secondary and tertiary centres.

About us

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Group was created by bringing together staff and services from two NHS Trusts, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

We care passionately about the experience our staff, patients, service users and their families receive day in, day out. We continue to find ways to drive forward improvements in the provision of safe, high-quality integrated health and social care to our local communities. We are pioneering in our thinking and approach, and remain at the forefront of research and innovation

Job description

Job responsibilities

This vacancy is open to those who have a current NMC PIN to practice as a Registered Nurse or Midwife in the UK, or those who are currently enrolled on a course which means they expect to receive their full NMC Pin within the next 2-3 months. Please note an NMC PRN Pin is not a full NMC Pin and would not fulfil the essential criteria for this role.

The NCA can no longer accept applications from International Nurses and Midwives who are yet to complete all competencies needed to receivea full NMC PIN to practice in the UK as we have paused our OSCE programme indefinitely. To learn more about how you can gain a full NMC PIN to be eligible to apply for our vacancies in the future, please see the NMC website :

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties / responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website :

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential

Desirable

Relavant Experience

Essential