Job summary
Step into a pivotal role within the Lower GI Cancer Service at Sherwood Forest Hospitals, where your expertise will directly shape the patient journey. As a Band 6 Junior Clinical Nurse Specialist, you will be a key member of a dynamic Multidisciplinary Team (MDT), delivering compassionate, expert care to patients on the urgent suspected cancer pathway.
This role is your opportunity to blend advanced clinical skills with specialist nursing knowledge, providing guidance, assessment, and support to patients and colleagues alike. You will champion the "straight to test" diagnostic pathway, ensuring timely, seamless care while contributing to service development, research, and professional education.
Your work will influence lives--supporting patients through sensitive and often complex situations, coordinating investigations, interpreting clinical results, and helping drive best practice across primary, secondary, and tertiary care. Independence, initiative, and advanced communication are at the heart of this role, alongside opportunities to mentor, innovate, and leave a lasting impact on colorectal care.
If you are a dedicated, skilled, and empathetic nurse ready to excel in a highly specialist environment, this is your chance to thrive at the forefront of cancer care.
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:
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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 description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Knowledge Requirements and qualifications
Essential
- 1st level Registered Nurse
- Significant relevant post registration experience in cancer/ surgical/ endoscopy nursing.
- Evidence of teaching experience, either formally or in informal settings.
- Evidence of recent continuous personal and professional development.
Desirable
- First level degree in related subject.
- Evidence of Masters Level learning or willing to work towards relevant Masters level studies.
- Colorectal disease (including cancer), endoscopy and/ or surgical nursing experience.
Skills and Effort Required
Essential
- Excellent communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and within a GI Nursing team & MDT.
- Teaching/assessment and presentation skills
- Good organisational skills with attention to detail
- Exemplar written communication skills
- Patient centred approach
- Diplomatic
- Calm and objective Assertive, confident, yet approachable
- Personally and professionally mature
- Recognition of own limitations
- Demonstrates enthusiasm
- Able to travel between sites
- Flexible to change in demands of service
- Willingness to travel and participate in professional development initiatives
- Ability to deal with complex and difficult emotional situations
Desirable
- Evidence of implementing changes within practice.
- Audit and research initiatives
- User involvement Sharing best practice
- Leadership and motivational skills
- History taking and physical assessment skills.
- Advanced clinical decision-making skills involving the patient's informed choices
- Able to clearly dictate summary letters to the patients and GP.
- Computer literate
Experience
Essential
- Knowledge of NHS operational and strategic issues and their impact on colorectal services.
- Understanding and knowledge of common gastroenterology and colorectal symptoms/ conditions/ disease processes
- Knowledge and understanding of primary care referral processes.
- Knowledge and understanding of colorectal cancer pathways including 2ww and 18ww routes.
- Sound knowledge and understanding of diagnostic pathways for suspected Colorectal Cancer
- Knowledge of Endoscopy & CTC procedures and bowel preparation.
- Knowledge of MDT working
Desirable
- Experience of audit and research
- Evidence of sound organisation, leadership and management
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Flexible approach to work
- Full UK Driving Licence
Person Specification
Knowledge Requirements and qualifications
Essential
- 1st level Registered Nurse
- Significant relevant post registration experience in cancer/ surgical/ endoscopy nursing.
- Evidence of teaching experience, either formally or in informal settings.
- Evidence of recent continuous personal and professional development.
Desirable
- First level degree in related subject.
- Evidence of Masters Level learning or willing to work towards relevant Masters level studies.
- Colorectal disease (including cancer), endoscopy and/ or surgical nursing experience.
Skills and Effort Required
Essential
- Excellent communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and within a GI Nursing team & MDT.
- Teaching/assessment and presentation skills
- Good organisational skills with attention to detail
- Exemplar written communication skills
- Patient centred approach
- Diplomatic
- Calm and objective Assertive, confident, yet approachable
- Personally and professionally mature
- Recognition of own limitations
- Demonstrates enthusiasm
- Able to travel between sites
- Flexible to change in demands of service
- Willingness to travel and participate in professional development initiatives
- Ability to deal with complex and difficult emotional situations
Desirable
- Evidence of implementing changes within practice.
- Audit and research initiatives
- User involvement Sharing best practice
- Leadership and motivational skills
- History taking and physical assessment skills.
- Advanced clinical decision-making skills involving the patient's informed choices
- Able to clearly dictate summary letters to the patients and GP.
- Computer literate
Experience
Essential
- Knowledge of NHS operational and strategic issues and their impact on colorectal services.
- Understanding and knowledge of common gastroenterology and colorectal symptoms/ conditions/ disease processes
- Knowledge and understanding of primary care referral processes.
- Knowledge and understanding of colorectal cancer pathways including 2ww and 18ww routes.
- Sound knowledge and understanding of diagnostic pathways for suspected Colorectal Cancer
- Knowledge of Endoscopy & CTC procedures and bowel preparation.
- Knowledge of MDT working
Desirable
- Experience of audit and research
- Evidence of sound organisation, leadership and management
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Flexible approach to work
- Full UK Driving Licence
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
