# Uro-Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist - Renal and Testicular

**Company**: Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £58,133 to £65,261 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated nurse to join our Uro-Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist team at Charing Cross Hospital.

The successful candidate will work as an autonomous specialist practitioner, providing expert nursing care, advice and support to patients with suspected or confirmed urological malignancies throughout their cancer pathway. Working closely with the multidisciplinary team, the CNS will act as a key worker, manage a specialist caseload, contribute to nurse-led services and support the delivery of timely, personalised and patient-centred cancer care.

**Main duties of the job**

- Deliver expert, specialist nursing care to patients with suspected or confirmed urological cancers, supporting individuals throughout the diagnostic, treatment, surveillance, survivorship and palliative pathways.

- Act as an autonomous practitioner, undertaking comprehensive specialist assessments, identifying individual patient needs, developing appropriate management plans and coordinating complex uro-oncology pathways.

- Act as a key worker and consistent point of contact for patients and their families, providing timely specialist advice, information, education and psychological support throughout their cancer journey.

- Work collaboratively as an integral member of the Uro-Oncology Multidisciplinary Team (MDT), contributing specialist nursing expertise to clinical decision-making and ensuring coordinated, safe and effective patient pathways.

- Support the management of patients across the range of urological cancers, including prostate, bladder, kidney, testicular and penile cancers, according to the requirements of the service.

- Provide specialist support to patients undergoing investigation and treatment, including surgery, systemic anti-cancer therapy, radiotherapy, active surveillance and follow-up, working closely with surgical, oncology and wider multidisciplinary teams.

- Coordinate and support timely diagnostic and treatment pathways, proactively to maintain patient safety and continuity of care.

**Benefits**

- Career development

- Flexible working

- Wellbeing

- Staff recognition scheme

- Optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities

## Skills

### Required
- NMC registration
- degree in related subject
- post registration qualification(s) in speciality or relevant subject at level 7
- Advanced Communication course
- Level 2 psychological skills training
- recognised teaching qualification or demonstratable teaching experience

### Nice to have
- MSc or MA in related speciality
- recognised physical assessment module at level 7
- leadership course
- quality improvement training

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