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Job summary

Main area
Nurse
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
6 months (LCS is externally funded so all contracts currently expire on or before 31March2026. In view of the fixed term nature, applications for secondment are particularly welcome.)
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
  • Job share
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (Working hours negotiable, part-time applications welcome)
Job ref
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Employer
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Trust Wide
Town
Oxfordshire
Salary
£38,682 - £46,580 Per annum pro rata, fixed term contract
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
05/09/2025 23:59

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Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Lung cancer screening Nurse

NHS AfC: Band 6

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.

 

The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

 

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. 

 

Many of our recruitment programmes use Value Based Interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significant difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families. For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values


 

Job overview

Fancy a change?  Interested in diversifying your skills to boost your CV?  Oxfordshire Lung cancer screening is a new OUH provided service.  Nurse-led and community based it is an ideal opportunity to join a friendly and innovative team keen to support training and development.   

The lung cancer service save lives and improves the health of our local populations through early identification of cancer and promoting smoking cessation.   Eligible asymptomatic participants between the ages of 55 to 74  with a smoking history are invited to attend our mobile CT unit  for a lung health check.    Your role will be to tackle inequalities by promoting engagement in the programme, particularly amongst "hard to reach" groups and then support participants through their Lung cancer screening journey.   For some this will lead to cancer diagnosis.     But early detection from low-dose CT scans using artificial intelligence to enhance image analysis can transform 5-year survival rates from around 15% to around 85%.   Incidental findings of raised cardiovascular risk  will enable early intervention to help prevent heart attacks and strokes.

For more details visit our website

Targeted Lung Health Check (TLHC) - Oxford University Hospitals (ouh.nhs.uk)

 

Main duties of the job

Job Purpose:

The primary purpose of the Lung cancer screening programme is to enable the early detection of lung cancer in order to save lives.

The post holder will be expected to provide specialist knowledge and care to the patient and their carers. They will support colleagues in the effective management of patients in their specialist area who require a high level of judgement, discretion and decision making within an inpatient or outpatient setting. The post-holder will provide education and training to patients, carers, and healthcare professionals.  

As this is a mobile service, the post holder is expected to get themselves to the various locations as well as Unipart house where we have office space. There is an element of hybrid working for this post, and you may be required to work from home for parts of the week as well as from the mobile units and Unipart house as the service requires.

 

Working for our organisation

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. Find out more here www.ouh.nhs.uk

The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Main competencies required for this post are:

Lung Health Check Specific duties:

  • Provide specialist nursing advice 
  • Work autonomously as well as part of a mutli-disciplinary team.
  • Provide nurse led clinics.
  • Ability to provide health promotion and smoking cessation advice.
  • Formulation of individualised care pathways with the patient and the carer.
  • Promote engagement with the service
  • Engage in audit and/or information collection.  

General duties:

  • Undertake comprehensive health care needs assessment of patients, reassessing as and when appropriate.
  • Assess, plan, prioritise, implement and evaluate nursing interventions to meet patients’ needs.
  • Contribute to multi-disciplinary, patient centred care.
  • Facilitate patient and carers to take an active role in care given.
  • Responsible for assessing and recognising emergencies in their specialty.  
  • Able to interpret information and take appropriate action and to lead other to do so.
  • To undertake and promote practice sensitive to the needs of patients and families from multi- cultural backgrounds.
  • Communicate with clinicians as necessary.
  • Contribute to and support the work of colleagues in the Multi-Disciplinary Team. 
  • Plan systems of nursing activity, which satisfy agreed standards of Local, Trust or National levels. 
  • Ensure all medication is administered in accordance with the Trust Medicine Management policy.
  • Demonstrate the mandatory competencies of the Trust, attending all required mandatory updates. 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Holds essential qualification
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of other relevant experience

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Fair Train work experience quality standard - gold standardVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleArmed Forces Covenant (Silver Award)Embracing Equality Diversity InclusionDisability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Prince's Trust - Proud to support the Prince's trust - Youth can do itStep into healthArmed Forces Covenant

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

Please note that this job advertisement will close automatically once the application limit is reached, regardless of whether this occurs before the advertised closing date.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Nicola Hodges
Job title
Programme Manager, LCS
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01865 2 34457
Additional information

Dee Rawlings, Nurse manager; [email protected]

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