Lung Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist

Job summary

We are seeking a compassionate, motivated, and forward-thinking Targeted Health Lung Cancer Specialist Nurse to join our expanding multidisciplinary team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in improving early detection, supporting high-risk individuals, and delivering personalised care to people affected by lung cancer.

You will work at the forefront of targeted lung health interventions, supporting patients through screening pathways, diagnostic investigations, and onward referral. Your expertise will help reduce health inequalities, promote prevention, and ensure that every person receives timely, high-quality, evidence-based care.

If you're passionate about targeted health interventions, early diagnosis, and delivering exceptional patient-centred care, we'd love to hear from you. This is your opportunity to help shape a service that saves lives and transforms outcomes for our community.

Main duties of the job

• Provide specialist nursing expertise across the Targeted Lung Health Check (TLHC) pathway.
• Undertake holistic assessments, risk evaluations, and personalised support for individuals identified through screening.
• Act as a key point of contact for patients, families, and carers, offering clear information, emotional support, and guidance.
• Work collaboratively with respiratory physicians, radiologists, cancer nurse specialists, and primary care colleagues.
• Support shared decision-making and promote smoking cessation, health improvement, and early intervention.
• Contribute to service development, audit, and quality improvement initiatives.
• Participate in MDT meetings and ensure seamless coordination of care.
• Maintain accurate clinical documentation and uphold the highest standards of professional practice.

About us

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are the largest NHS organisation in East Anglia, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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Employer details

Employer name

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Ipswich Hospital

Heath Road

Ipswich

IP4 5PD

Employer's website

https://www.esneft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Ipswich Hospital

Heath Road

Ipswich

IP4 5PD

Employer's website

https://www.esneft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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