Haematology Nurse Specialist, Band 6

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Main area Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 30 hours per week (Across 4 days
- Monday/ Tuesday/ Thursday and Friday) Job
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Site Gloucestershire Royal Hospital (Clinical Haematology) Town Gloucester Salary £39,959 - £48,117 (pa, pro rata if part-time) Salary period Yearly Closing 09/07/2026 23:59 Interview date 29/07/2026

Are you an enthusiastic, compassionate registered nurse who has an interest in haematology and strives to deliver excellent patient care? We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced nurse to join us as a Haematology Nurse Specialist with a focus on caring for patients with Myeloma or those undergoing an autologous stem cell transplant. The post-holder will work alongside the existing Myeloma and Transplant Haematology CNS' and CSW team to deliver holistic care to patients diagnosed with Myeloma, from diagnosis to end of treatment or end of life.

Applicants will be confident, proactive and compassionate Band 5 or Band 6 nurse with haemato-oncology experience and excellent communication skills. They must have a strong understanding of Systemic Anti-Cancer Treatment and associated toxicities. The postholder will be responsible for working collaboratively with a range of healthcare professionals and agencies, providing specialist advice and support, to ensure the delivery of high quality and efficient services to meet the cancer priorities of the organisation and the national cancer agenda and demonstrate advanced clinical decision-making.

• Provide appropriate support and nurse specialist input to agreed standards throughout the diagnostic process, at diagnosis and throughout the cancer pathway.
• Assess individuals’ care needs, developing, planning, implementing and evaluating care to meet the needs of patients within the clinical environment and outpatient setting.
• Identify and assess patients’ physical, social and psychological needs to support the development of holistic needs assessment and personalised care and support plans.
• Provide on-going advice and support to enable patients to make informed decisions about their management and care.
• Support the delivery of all personalised cancer care key metrics as per national recommendations.
• Provide advice, support and symptom management for patients and carers within the scope of expected practice aligned with the ACCEND framework for enhanced level of practice. Communicate highly complex and sensitive information to patients and carers within clinical competence.
• Make judgements surrounding complex health concerns or situations which require analysis, interpretation and a range of care options to enable the initiation of nursing care interventions.
• Undertake extended clinical skills and/or procedures to meet the needs of the individual service e.g. clinical procedures as required by the service (Bone Marrow biopsies, etc.).

• Flexible working opportunities.
• Generous annual leave allowance.
• Access to the NHS pension scheme.
• Competitive bank rates.
• Local discounts.
• Access to two on-site nurseries.
• Discounted public transport.
• Reward and recognition schemes.
• Range of health and wellbeing initiatives.

• Educated to degree level.
• Has completed accredited chemotherapy course.
• Experience post registration at band 5 level or above within relevant specialty.
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of an effective MDT.
• Remains calm and diplomatic under pressure.
• Evidence of relevant Masters level study.
• Completed Advanced Communication Course.
• Ability to deal with complex and difficult emotional situations.

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.

You will only be contacted by the Recruitment Team via email if you are shortlisted for this post. Please ensure therefore that you check your e-mail account regularly.

If you require sponsorship for a visa to work in the UK, to avoid disappointment, please check to ensure you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.

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.