Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Thoracic Oncology Lead Nurse (Band 8a) to join our world-class team at Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, the UK's leading cardiothoracic hospital, rated Outstanding by the CQC in all domains. We are seeking an experienced oncology nurse leader who is passionate about delivering exceptional, patient-centred cancer care and driving service improvement.
Working alongside the Clinical Lead as a co-lead for the Thoracic Oncology Service, you will provide visible, compassionate leadership, ensuring the highest standards of clinical care, professional nursing practice and governance. You will shape service delivery, contribute to national cancer standards, and act as an advocate for patients, families and carers across our pathways.
We are looking for someone with extensive oncology experience, proven leadership skills at Band 7 or above, and a proven track record in innovation, staff development and quality improvement. You will inspire, mentor and empower our nursing teams, ensuring their wellbeing is prioritised while advancing service excellence.
If you are ready to influence cancer services on a local and national stage and want to work in a hospital renowned for clinical excellence, research and compassionate care, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
The Thoracic Oncology Lead Nurse will:
*Provide senior clinical, managerial and professional leadership to the thoracic oncology nursing team, ensuring safe, high-quality and evidence-based care for patients and their families.
*Promote quality, patient experience and service development, ensuring national cancer standards and Trust priorities are consistently met.
*Develop nursing input into service design, pathway coordination, and development of nurse-led initiatives, working collaboratively across multi-disciplinary teams and with external partners.
*Act as a visible clinical leader, supporting staff in practice, role-modelling compassionate care, and ensuring effective mentorship, education and professional development opportunities.
*Take responsibility for governance, audits, incidents and complaints, ensuring learning is embedded and improvements delivered.
*Contribute to strategic planning, business cases and workforce development, including recruitment, retention, rostering and skill-mix review.
*Lead on innovation, research and audit within oncology, supporting evidence-based improvements and sharing best practice locally and nationally.
*Act as an advocate for patients and carers, ensuring their voices influence service delivery and care pathways.
About us
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.
Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.
The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.
For a street view tour: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/virtual-tour
Job description
Job responsibilities
On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered nurse educated to Masters level or equivalent experience.
- Valid NMC registration
Desirable
- Advanced practitioner skills or willingness to work towards
- Professional non-medical prescriber or willingness to work towards
- Teaching qualification
- Leadership qualification
- Root Cause Analysis / Investigation training
Experience
Essential
- Experience working within Oncology.
- Experience of empowering staff to develop and lead within their areas of responsibility.
- Experience of managing change
- Developing and executing ideas to improve patient experience/staff engagement/services
- Experience in staff development- mentorship, coaching, supervision
- Experience at Band 7 or above
- Evidence of ongoing professional and managerial development.
- Able to interpret clinical information and report as appropriate
- Be able to lead staff in a compassionate and collective way ensuring that their health and wellbeing is a priority.
- Collaborate effectively with operational and clinical colleagues to improve patient care and experience and to build strong staff engagement.
- Be able to give honest and professional challenge to colleagues.
- Be able to develop the clinical capability and confidence of individuals and teams and encourage innovation and curiosity about how improvements can be made.
Desirable
- Clinical and operational leadership
- Involvement in research project in clinical environment or related environment.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration
- Be able to work constructively with internal and external partners to create the conditions for successful partnership working.
- Presentation skills including communicating complex and sensitive information to groups.
- Flexibility: Ability to cope with new and changing demands and emotionally demanding situations e.g. dealing with distressed patients and sometimes challenging visitors and staff
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered nurse educated to Masters level or equivalent experience.
- Valid NMC registration
Desirable
- Advanced practitioner skills or willingness to work towards
- Professional non-medical prescriber or willingness to work towards
- Teaching qualification
- Leadership qualification
- Root Cause Analysis / Investigation training
Experience
Essential
- Experience working within Oncology.
- Experience of empowering staff to develop and lead within their areas of responsibility.
- Experience of managing change
- Developing and executing ideas to improve patient experience/staff engagement/services
- Experience in staff development- mentorship, coaching, supervision
- Experience at Band 7 or above
- Evidence of ongoing professional and managerial development.
- Able to interpret clinical information and report as appropriate
- Be able to lead staff in a compassionate and collective way ensuring that their health and wellbeing is a priority.
- Collaborate effectively with operational and clinical colleagues to improve patient care and experience and to build strong staff engagement.
- Be able to give honest and professional challenge to colleagues.
- Be able to develop the clinical capability and confidence of individuals and teams and encourage innovation and curiosity about how improvements can be made.
Desirable
- Clinical and operational leadership
- Involvement in research project in clinical environment or related environment.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration
- Be able to work constructively with internal and external partners to create the conditions for successful partnership working.
- Presentation skills including communicating complex and sensitive information to groups.
- Flexibility: Ability to cope with new and changing demands and emotionally demanding situations e.g. dealing with distressed patients and sometimes challenging visitors and staff
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
