Job Description
Job summary
Cancer care is about far more than treatment alone. It's about helping patients navigate uncertainty, making complex decisions feel clearer, and ensuring they never feel alone throughout their journey.
As a Macmillan Urology Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist at The Christie Private Care, you will become a trusted source of expert guidance, support and advocacy for patients and their families. Combining specialist clinical expertise with compassion and personalised care, you will play a pivotal role in supporting patients from diagnosis through treatment and recovery.
Working within a highly specialised and growing multidisciplinary team, you will manage a diverse caseload across the urology cancer pathway, caring for patients undergoing surgery, radiotherapy, systemic anti-cancer therapies and other specialist interventions. This varied role offers the opportunity to develop advanced specialist knowledge while making a meaningful impact on patient outcomes and experience.
The Christie Private Care is a unique partnership between HCA Healthcare UK and The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-renowned cancer expertise and exceptional private patient care. With diagnostics, surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and specialist support services available on one site, you'll be part of a service committed to delivering seamless, patient-centred care at every stage of the cancer journey.
Main duties of the job
As a Macmillan Urology Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist, you will provide expert clinical leadership, support and advocacy for patients throughout their cancer journey. Acting as a key worker across the urology cancer pathway, you will help patients and their families navigate diagnosis, treatment and recovery, ensuring they receive seamless, personalised and compassionate care.
You will:
- Manage a specialist caseload of patients with urological cancers, providing continuity of care throughout diagnosis, treatment and follow-up.
- Undertake holistic assessments and deliver expert clinical advice, education and emotional support to patients and their families.
- Act as a trusted point of contact, supporting patients to navigate complex treatment decisions and access appropriate services and support.
- Coordinate care across the multidisciplinary team, working closely with consultants, surgeons, oncologists, allied health professionals and wider healthcare colleagues to deliver evidence-based, patient-centred care.
- Support patients undergoing surgery, radiotherapy, systemic anti-cancer therapies and other specialist urology cancer interventions.
- Advocate for patients and their families, ensuring their individual needs and preferences remain central to all aspects of care delivery.
- Act as a specialist resource for colleagues, promoting best practice and supporting the education and development of the wider clinical team.