# Specialist Nurse - Cancer Services

**Company**: Spire Dunedin Hospital
**Location**: Reading, Berkshire
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Make a lasting impact on patients living with cancer.

As a Clinical Nurse Specialist at Spire Dunedin Hospital in Reading, Berkshire, you'll be part of a small, supportive Cancer Services team where you'll have the time, autonomy, and resources to deliver exceptional care throughout a patient's cancer journey.

**Job Description**

You'll act as a clinical expert and professional resource for patients, carers, and colleagues, delivering specialist cancer care and supporting patients at every stage of their treatment pathway.

**Responsibilities**

- Manage a specialist clinical caseload

- Safely administer Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT)

- Conduct pre-treatment assessments and consultations

- Provide specialist advice and support to patients and their families

- Complete Holistic Needs Assessments and develop personalised care plans

- Work collaboratively with Consultants, CNS colleagues, and multidisciplinary teams

- Coordinate ongoing care and discharge planning with internal and external healthcare providers

- Maintain accurate and concise clinical documentation

- Support colleagues within the Cancer Services team through professional guidance and expertise

- Promote evidence-based practice and continuous service improvement

- Participate in the oncology on-call service

**Requirements**

- Registered General Nurse with current NMC registration

- UKONS-accredited SACT Administration qualification

- Significant experience within Oncology or Cancer Services

- Experience administering Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT)

- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills

- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities

- Ability to work autonomously and manage a specialist caseload

- Good IT skills, including Microsoft Office applications

**Benefits**

- Competitive salary

- 35 days' annual leave inclusive of bank holidays

- Access to private healthcare and health insurance options

- Gym and wellbeing benefits

- Free on-site parking

- Supportive team within a leading independent healthcare provider

- Employer and employee contributory pension with flexible retirement options

- 'Spire for You' rewards platform

- Free Bupa wellness screening

## Skills

### Required
- Oncology
- Cancer Services
- Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT)
- Microsoft Office
- Communication
- Relationship-building
- Organisational skills
- Autonomous working

### Nice to have
- Competency in the UKONS 24-Hour Triage Tool
- Post-registration qualification in Cancer Care or a related speciality
- Previous Clinical Nurse Specialist experience

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