Lung Health Screening CNS
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Hours / week
- 37.5
- Posted
- 03/09/2026
- Closes
- 15/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an opportunity for a Band 6 Lung Cancer Screening CNS to join the Lung Cancer Screening Team at Milton Keynes University Hospital. The role involves working with a multidisciplinary team to support the expansion of the service. Key responsibilities include dealing with scan results, contacting patients about suspicious findings or incidental findings, and generating results letters. The successful candidate will be a confident and dynamic nurse with specialist respiratory and cancer knowledge, interested in quality improvement and service development.
Essential criteria
- Nursing Degree
- Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) PIN
- Evidence of post-registration development
- Accreditation in Lung Nursing or equivalent experience
- Basic Life Support (BLS)
- Understanding of use of clinical audit in a clinical setting
- Knowledge of infection control
- Mentorship/practice assessor qualification (or willingness to undertake)
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of current professional issues in nursing
- An understanding of current issues relating to the NHS and cancer care
- IRMER qualification
- Detailed knowledge of the LCS protocol, quality standards and incidental finding guidance
- Awareness of relevant national and local targets
- Experience of working as part of a team
- Experience working in an acute healthcare environment
- Significant post-registration experience in relevant clinical area
- Experience of acting coordinating a clinical area shift / service shift
- Experience supervising unqualified staff
- Experience supervising qualified staff
- Ability to work as part of a multi disciplinary/interdisciplinary team and follow up actions from screening review meeting
- Registered Nurse with significant band 5 experience
- Experience in working in Lung Cancer Screening or other Screening services
- Experience working as a band 6.
- Advance communication skills course
- Ability to deal with complex and difficult emotional situations
- Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team
- Advanced clinical assessment and decision-making skills.
- Diplomacy and negotiation skills
- Good understanding of IT and technology
- Ability to manage workload and prioritise in a fast-paced environment
- Leadership and team management skills.
- Teaching and good presentation skills
- Ability to undertake audits and support quality improvement.
- Ability to undertake career conversations and appraisals
- Ability to pay attention to detail to ensure accurate information is recorded and patients follow the correct pathway and incidental referral pathways.
- Evidence of working independently
- Ability to deal with difficult/sensitive situations.
- Personal and people development
- Motivated and enthusiastic
- Approachable
- Able to work under pressure.
- Able to reflect on own practice
- Willing to learn and improve personal practice
- Communication
- Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
- Able to communicate effectively with other members of the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT)
- Qualifications and knowledge
- Nursing Degree
- Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) PIN
- Evidence of post-registration development
- Accreditation in Lung Nursing or equivalent experience
- Basic Life Support (BLS)
- Understanding of use of clinical audit in a clinical setting
- Knowledge of infection control
- Mentorship/practice assessor qualification (or willingness to undertake)
- Knowledge of current professional issues in nursing
- An understanding of current issues relating to the NHS and cancer care
- IRMER qualification
- Detailed knowledge of the LCS protocol, quality standards and incidental finding guidance
- Awareness of relevant national and local targets
- Experience of working as part of a team
- Experience working in an acute healthcare environment
- Significant post-registration experience in relevant clinical area
- Experience of acting coordinating a clinical area shift / service shift
- Experience supervising unqualified staff
- Experience supervising qualified staff
- Ability to work as part of a multi disciplinary/interdisciplinary team and follow up actions from screening review meeting
- Registered Nurse with significant band 5 experience
- Experience in working in Lung Cancer Screening or other Screening services
- Experience working as a band 6.
- Advance communication skills course
- Ability to deal with complex and difficult emotional situations
- Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team
- Advanced clinical assessment and decision-making skills.
- Diplomacy and negotiation skills
- Good understanding of IT and technology
- Ability to manage workload and prioritise in a fast-paced environment
- Leadership and team management skills.
- Teaching and good presentation skills
- Ability to undertake audits and support quality improvement.
- Ability to undertake career conversations and appraisals
- Ability to pay attention to detail to ensure accurate informat
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Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job summary
Lung Health check CNS
Department: Cancer Services
Band 6, £39,959 - £48,117 Per annum pro rata
Hours: Full time, 37.5 per week, Until 31 March 2027, all MKUH roles will be considered for flexible working
We have a great opportunity for a Band 6 Lung Cancer Screening CNS to join our Lung Cancer Screening Team at Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (MKUH), working with the wider multidisciplinary team to support the expansion of the MKUH service.
We are looking for a confident and dynamic nurse with excellent, up-to-date specialist respiratory and cancer knowledge, as well as enhanced clinical skills. The successful candidate should have a key interest in lung cancer, quality improvement, and service development. 'We care We communicate We collaborate We contribute'
Interview date: 22 September 2026
Main duties of the job
The Lung Cancer Screening CNS will work alongside the rest of the lung cancer screening team. The main element of the role is to deal with scan results under the supervision of the Lung Cancer Screening Clinical Director. This will include phoning patients whose scans are suspicious for lung cancer, as well as contacting patients regarding other incidental findings identified on their scans.
All patients who are scanned will receive a results letter. This is partly automated, but the nurse will
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