Lower GI Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 03/09/2026
- Closes
- 17/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
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“Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.”Quoted verbatim from the source advert
Role summary
This role is for a Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist in Lower GI Cancer, focusing on patients with suspected or confirmed Colorectal Cancer. The post holder will manage the surgical part of the patient pathway, supervising junior CNS staff and a CEA navigator. Responsibilities include providing specialist nursing knowledge, expertise, and psychosocial support, ensuring holistic and evidence-based care. The CNS will work autonomously, making critical judgments within a defined framework.
Essential criteria
- Degree Level qualification in Adult Nursing 4 years post reg
- Evidence of continuing personal/professional development
- Cancer Role/experience
Desirable criteria
- Non medical prescribing qualification or the ability to undertake
- management/leadership qualification
- Post graduate study in Colorectal cancer
- knowledge and experience
- Experience in the management of patients with colorectal cancer
- Experience of giving psychosocial support to patients with complex needs
- Advanced communications skills training
- Level 4 advance communications skills training
- Education
- Degree Level qualification in Adult Nursing 4 years post reg
- Evidence of continuing personal/professional development
- Cancer Role/experience
- Non medical prescribing qualification or the ability to undertake
- management/leadership qualification
- Post graduate study in Colorectal cancer
- knowledge and experience
- Experience in the management of patients with colorectal cancer
- Experience of giving psychosocial support to patients with complex needs
- Advanced communications skills training
- Level 4 advance communications skills training
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 2d ago · Closes in 13d
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Job summary
Job overview
The LGI Cancer band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) will be an integral part of the LGI CNS team, looking after patients with a high suspicion of / confirmed diagnosis ofColorectal Cancer. The post holder will work closely with the Lead LGI oncology CNS, Enhanced Recovery team, Faster diagnosis triage CNS team, stoma nursing team and Cancer Support team.
The post holder will be a highly competent, credible, and experienced autonomous practitioner who uses their breadth and specialist knowledge and professional visibility and advanced clinical skills of practice to support patients on the LGI pathway.
The LGI Cancer CNS will specifically manage the surgical part of the Patient Pathway, supervising the band 6 LGI CNS and managing the Band 4 CEA navigator, managing the patient through from Endoscopy (probable cancer) diagnosis and up to the first adjuvant oncology appointment. The CNS will also ensure an improved service for patients who are diagnosed through the emergency pathway.
The post holder will be expected to exercise a high degree of personal professional autonomy and make critical judgements to satisfy the expectations and demands of the role, within a defined framework.
Main duties of the job
- The CNS will demonstrate a higher level of practice through the provision of specialist nursing knowledge and expertise in the managemen
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