Cancer Nurse

• Act as a named point of contact for patients throughout their cancer pathway.
• Provide regular check-ins with patients from diagnosis through treatment and into recovery or their transition to palliative care .
• Support patients in understanding their diagnosis, treatment plans, and available services.
• Coordinate care across primary care, hospital teams, community providers, social care, and voluntary organisations.
• Ensure patients do not feel lost within the healthcare system by helping them navigate appointments, referrals, investigations, and follow-up care.
• Monitor patient progress and identify concerns early, escalating where appropriate. Undertake holistic needs assessments at appropriate stages of the cancer pathway.
• Develop personalised care and support plans with patients and carers.
• Identify physical, psychological, emotional, financial, practical, and social needs.
• Review care plans regularly and adapt them according to changing patient needs. Support patients to maximise recovery following cancer treatment. Promote healthy lifestyle changes including physical activity, nutrition and weight management, smoking cessation, and emotional wellbeing.
• Encourage self-management and confidence in living with and beyond cancer.
• Signpost patients to rehabilitation programmes, wellbeing services, support groups, and community resources.

• Act as a named point of contact for patients throughout their cancer pathway.
• Provide regular check-ins with patients from diagnosis through treatment and into recovery or their transition to palliative care .
• Support patients in understanding their diagnosis, treatment plans, and available services.
• Coordinate care across primary care, hospital teams, community providers, social care, and voluntary organisations.
• Ensure patients do not feel lost within the healthcare system by helping them navigate appointments, referrals, investigations, and follow-up care.
• Monitor patient progress and identify concerns early, escalating where appropriate.

• Undertake holistic needs assessments at appropriate stages of the cancer pathway.
• Develop personalised care and support plans with patients and carers.
• Identify physical, psychological, emotional, financial, practical, and social needs.
• Review care plans regularly and adapt them according to changing patient needs.

• Support patients to maximise recovery following cancer treatment.
• Promote healthy lifestyle changes including physical activity, nutrition and weight management, smoking cessation, and emotional wellbeing.
• Encourage self-management and confidence in living with and beyond cancer.
• Signpost patients to rehabilitation programmes, wellbeing services, support groups, and community resources.

• Work closely with GPs, practice nurses, specialist cancer teams, community nursing services, allied health professionals, social prescribing teams, mental health services, palliative care, and voluntary sector organisations.
• Have a clear understanding of their own professional competencies and limitations ie when to involve another clinician in the practice
• Facilitate communication between professionals to improve continuity of care.
• Participate in multidisciplinary team meetings where appropriate.
• Advocate for patients to ensure timely access to appropriate services.

• Provide evidence-based advice within the scope of professional practice.
• Recognise deterioration or unmet needs and arrange appropriate intervention. Assessment to include identifying oncological emergencies.
• Support symptom management and treatment side effect monitoring where appropriate.
• Maintain accurate clinical documentation in accordance with organisational policies.

• Provide clear information regarding diagnosis, treatment, recovery, surveillance, and available support services.
• Empower patients and families to make informed decisions about their care.
• Provide emotional support throughout the cancer journey.

• Contribute to service development and continuous quality improvement.
• Support audits and data collection relating to cancer pathways and patient outcomes.
• Maintain accurate records and contribute to performance reporting where required.

Essential

• Essential
• Registered Nurse with current NMC registration.
• Demonstrable knowledge of cancer treatments for patients with cancer
• Experience within primary care, community nursing, oncology, or palliative care.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience of care coordination and multidisciplinary working.
• Ability to undertake holistic assessments. Ability to identify deterioration or potential oncological emergencies in telephone consultations and liaise appropriately with GP and secondary care.
• Knowledge of psychological impact of a cancer diagnosis especially within context of pre-existing mental health concerns or history of traumatic experiences
• Knowledge of cancer pathways and survivor-ship
• Ability to work independently while contributing effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
• Good organisational and time management skills.
• Competent IT skills and experience using electronic patient records.

Desirable

• Cancer nursing qualification or relevant postgraduate study.
• Ability to discuss how treatments work and common side effects
• Advance communication skills training qualification
• Health coaching experience or qualification
• Experience in service development or quality improvement.