Head and Neck Oncology Support Nurse

Head and Neck Oncology Support Nurse

The closing date is 04 December 2025

We are recruiting for a Head and Neck Oncology Support Nurse who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

This will be a 12 month fixed term Maternity Leave cover.

The Support Nurse will be motivated, proactive, and an excellent communicator who works well within a team, whilst also autonomously managing their own case load.

You will work with patients being investigated and having a confirmed diagnosis of Head and Neck cancers.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

You will be working alongside and supporting the Head and Neck Clinical Nurse Specialist, caring for ENT, Maxillo Facial and Thyroid patients.

You will attend the weekly Head and Neck MDT meeting and be a core member of the Team.

You will be caring and supporting Head and Neck cancer patients and their families. This will mainly be in our clinics or the ward or over the telephone.

You will work closely with all the Team and especially the Speech and Swallowing Therapy Team and the Macmillan Dietitian.

You will provide advice to other health care professionals regarding complex symptoms and concerns.

We facilitate support groups for our patients and carers, which you will be helping with.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient led Trust where dedicated staff provide high quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Person Specification Qualifications / Training

• Evidence of continuous professional development
• Teaching or mentoring qualification
• Post registration qualification in speciality or willingness to complete
• Degree
• Research module

Previous Experience

• Evidence of mentorship/preceptorship roles
• Able to accept personal accountability for own practice
• Experience of formal/informal teaching
• Understanding of evidence based practice
• Understanding of Clinical Governance
• Understanding and knowledge of specialist field

Skills

• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Capable of working as an integral member of a small team
• Flexible and adaptable to changing situations due to both workload and colleagues needs
• Ability to undertake teaching of staff and patients
• Ability to work unsupervised and manage own workload; effective time management; effective interpersonal skills
• Commitment to multidisciplinary working
• Counselling skills

Other Requirements

• Experience and evidence of engagement around equality, diversity and inclusion issues in relation to policy, service development and service delivery in respect of both services to users and the management of staff
• Role model our Trust values every day
• To act in a professional manner at all times in accordance with the NMC Code of Conduct
• Capable of developing liaisons with other practice areas/academic institutions.
• Knowledge of broader issues related to specialty - political and Trust.

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.