Prostate Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist

Prostate Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist

The closing date is 30 July 2026

We have an exciting opportunity to join our dynamic Prostate Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) team. The team provides specialist support to patients across Hampshire Hospitals sites, including Basingstoke, Winchester, and Andover.

This Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist post (dependent on experience) will:

• Work as an autonomous practitioner, delivering expert, specialist care to patients diagnosed with prostate cancer.
• Collaborate with the Prostate Cancer CNS team to coordinate the diagnostic pathway, including prostate biopsies for individuals referred with suspected prostate cancer, ensuring high-quality care in line with national and local standards.
• Provide evidence-based care for a designated caseload of patients, working alongside the Lead Prostate Cancer Consultant. This includes running nurse‑led active surveillance and post‑treatment clinics, assessing patients either remotely or face‑to‑face using a range of communication methods.
• Act as a key point of contact between patients and the multidisciplinary team, ensuring clear and effective communication across professional boundaries.
• Support Cancer Support Worker‑led clinic activity, including workshops and patient assessments for those enrolled in the Prostate Cancer Personalised Stratified Follow‑Up pathway.

Main duties of the job

• High standards of Professional Practice to ensure quality and safety of the patients experience of care when referred via the suspected prostate cancer pathway
• Assess, plan and implement necessary diagnostic investigations following receipt of primary care referrals.
• Exercise clinical judgement relating to individuals complex care needs, including those where factors may be conflicting, requiring high level analysis and interpretation skills, comparing a range of options to achieve effective treatment or discharge planning.
• Specialised clinical practice, knowledge, skills and experience.
• To promote an innovative and progressive attitude to the continual improvement of patient care, through reviewing the evidence base and embedding this through clinical audit and research engagement
• Leading by example
• Ensuring clinical services are delivered to a high quality of care and that all compliance requirements such as CQC and contractual requirements are achieved
• Effective leadership

Person Specification

• Evidence of management skills within current banding

Interest in field of prostate cancer

• Working within field of prostate cancer as a band 6
• Evidence of reading around specialism

Qualified Nurse

• Achieved entry to NMC register and studied at degree level or equivalent qualification

Managing own workload

• Evidence of managing own workload, and participation in service redesigns.

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.

£49,387 to £56,515 a year Band 7 dependent on experience

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