Urology Specialist Nurse / Cancer Nurse Specialist

Transformationunitgm; Stoke-on-Trent; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent NHS Trust in Stoke-on-Trent is looking for a Band 6 Urology Specialist Nurse to join its skilled nursing team. This role involves providing comprehensive care for both benign and cancer patients, requiring advanced communication and urological clinical skills. The ideal candidate should have a degree-level education, NMC registration, and prior urology experience. The Trust values inclusion and supports professional development, offering an environment where staff can thrive. Competitive salary and full-time hours are included.

Benefits

Professional development opportunities

Inclusive workplace culture

Qualifications

• Registered with NMC and relevant clinical experience.
• Evidence of post registration education in a relevant field.
• Prior experience in urology is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide a holistic specialist service for urology patients.
• Work as a key member within the multi-disciplinary team.
• Administer treatments and interpret clinical patient data.

Skills

Advanced communication skills

Urological clinical skills

Ability to interpret clinical information

Teaching and empowering healthcare professionals

Education

Degree level education

NMC registration

Evidence of post registration education

Job description

Main area Urology Grade Band 6 Contract Fixed term: 12 months (12 month contract) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 205-7565768

Employer University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site University Hospital of North Midlands Town Stoke on Trent Salary £38,682 - £46,580 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 23/01/2026 23:59

Band 6

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a band 6 Urology Specialist Nurse – Cancer Nurse Specialist to join an empowered, skilled urological nursing team that work across both acute hospital sites, Royal Stoke & County Hospital.
This post will provide a holistic specialist service for both benign and cancer patients. The post holder will be an empowered and valued member of the multi-disciplinary team, acting as a key worker working across a range of protocol driven services underpinned by theory.
The ability to apply specialist knowledge across a range of procedures is essential as analytical and judgemental skills will require interpreting acute and other conditions, making comparisons of a range of actions required to optimise patient outcomes and, where necessary, liaising with other healthcare professionals to provide the best possible specialist care for urological patients.

Main duties of the job

Communication & Relationship Skills

The post holder will be required to

• Fulfil the role of key worker
• Advanced communication skills
• Run protocol driven nurse led cancer and benign clinics
• Administer intravesical instillations
• Interpret clinical and sensitive patient information
• Utilise Urological clinical skills
• Teach and empower other health care professionals
• Request pertinent investigations that help inform diagnosis and patient surveillance pathways
• Active member of urological cancer patient multi-disciplinary team
• Implement and contribute to the writing of standard operational policies and attend governance meetings
• Remain responsible for producing and updating patient information
• Responsible for holistic needs assessment
• Respond to departmental on-going developments
• Work unsupervised but managed
• Remain responsible for self and delegated tasksRecognise when help and guidance is required
• Direct patient care
• Participate in research and clinical trials
• Supportive of all Urological nursing roles
• Commit to educational programs required to fulfil succession planning departmental objectives

Working for our organisation

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.

UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co‑created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.

At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key Areas/Tasks

Personal/Professional Development

• To take every reasonable opportunity to maintain and improve your professional knowledge and competence

• To participate in personal objective setting and review, including the creation of a personal development plan and the Trust’s appraisal process.

Health and Safety

• To take reasonable care for your own Health and Safety and that of any other person who may be affected by your acts or omissions at work.

• To co‑operate with University Hospitals of North Midlands (NHS) Trust in ensuring that statutory regulations, codes of practice, local policies and departmental health and safety rules are adhered to.

• To comply and adhere to individual and role specific responsibilities as stated in the Trust Health and Safety Policy (HS01) and all other Health and Safety related policies.

Equality and Diversity

UHNM is committed to the implementation of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Policy

Which ensures equal opportunities for all. UHNM is also committed to embracing diversity

and eliminating discrimination in both its role as an employer and as a provider of services.

It aims to create a culture that respects and values each other’s differences, promotes

dignity, equality and diversity and encourages individuals to develop and maximise their

potential. All staff are required to observe this policy in their behaviour to other workers and

Infection Prevention

Infection Prevention is the obligation of every employee both clinical and non‑clinical at the University Hospitals North Midlands NHS Trust. Driving down healthcare associated infection is everyone’s responsibility and all staff are required to adhere to the Trust’s Infection Prevention policy

All staff employed by the UHNM Trust have the following responsibilities:

Trust Dress Code

• Trust approved uniform/dress code must be adhered to

• When in clinical areas all staff must be bare below the elbow, without wrist watches, stoned rings, wrist jewellery, false nails, nail polish or plaster casts

• No personal bags to be worn during clinical duties

Hand Hygiene

• Decontaminate your hands as the per ‘The five moments of hand hygiene’

Own Practice

• Lead by example

• Encourage and praise good practice

• Be prepared to accept advice about your own practice

• Ensure that equipment you have been using or about to use has been decontaminated effectively

• Ensure that you are aware of the Trust approved cleaning products, and follow a safe system of works

Trust Policies

• Ensure that you know and strictly follow relevant Infection Prevention policies for your role and apply standard precautions at all times, which is available in the Infection Prevention Manual on the UHNM intranet

Data Protection Act, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the NHS Code of Confidentiality

All staff are responsible for ensuring they are familiar with and adhere to the Trust’s policies, procedures and guidelines with regards to the Data Protection Act, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the NHS Code of Confidentiality. This includes confidentiality, information security, cyber security, secondary use and management of records.

All staff have a responsibility in protecting the “rights and freedom” of natural persons (i.e. live individuals) and to ensure that personal data is not processed without their knowledge, and, wherever possible, that it is processed with their consent. Processing includes holding, obtaining, recording, using and disclosing of information and applies to all forms of media, including paper and images. It applies to both patient and staff information

Hence staff must ensure confidentiality is maintained at all times, data is recorded accurately and you only access this information as part of your job role

Safeguarding Children, Young People and Adults with care and support needs

All staff are responsible for ensuring that they are familiar with and adhere to the Trusts Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and guidelines. All health professionals who come into contact with children, parents, adults with care and support needs and carers in the course of their work have a responsibility to safeguard and promote their welfare as directed by the ChildrenActs 1989/2004 and the Care Act 2014. Health professionals also have a responsibility even when the health professional does not work directly with a child or adult with care and support needs but may be seeing their parent, carer or other significant adult.

All staff are required to attend safeguarding awareness training and undertake any additional training in relation to safeguarding relevant to their role.

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list and may be subject to change from time to time. All documents referred to throughout this Job Description can be found on the Trust’s intranet, or alternatively copies can be obtained from the Human Resources Directorate

Sustainability

Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility are fundamental to the way the University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM) work. The Trust has developed a Sustainable Development Management Plan (SDMP): ‘Our 2020 Vision: Our Sustainable Future’ with a vision to become the most sustainable NHS Trust by 2020. In order to achieve this, we need the support of all staff. As a member of staff, it is your responsibility to minimise the Trust’s environmental impact and to ensure that Trust resources are used efficiently with minimum wastage throughout daily activities. This will include minimising waste production through printing and photocopying less, reducing water waste and when waste is produced, it is your responsibility to segregate all clinical waste correctly and recycle. Switch off lights and equipment when not in use, report all faults and heating / cooling concerns promptly to the Estates Helpdesk and where possible minimise business travel. Where the role includes the ordering and use of supplies or equipment the post holder will consider the environmental impact of purchases.

SWITCH to a Sustainable UHNM is a campaign that focuses on the sustainability of the Trust and how we can use resources more effectively to provide better patient care, improve our health and work place. SWITCH is looking to recruit as many Champions as possible to help to bring the campaign to colleagues in their departments / wards and bring SWITCH to life. If you are interested in becoming a SWITCH Champion please contact [email protected]

Disruptive Incident & Business Continuity

The Trust needs to be able to plan for, and respond to a wide range of incidents and emergencies that could affect health or patient care. These could be anything from severe weather to an infectious disease outbreak or a major transport accident.

All staff are required to have an awareness of the Trust’s business continuity arrangements, as a minimum. All staff will be required to;

• To know how to identify a business continuity incident and the method for reporting;

• To have an awareness of local business continuity arrangements;

• To participate in awareness, training and exercises, as required;

In the event of a disruptive incident, all Trust employees will be required to attend work if they are fit and well and able to do so in line with a Trust risk assessment. Those who are clinically qualified will be required to work flexibly across the Trust to meet the service need in clinical areas. This will include front line clinical staff who will be expected to cover alternative duties as and when required in order to ensure that all essential services are maintained.

Person specification

• NMC registration
• Evidence of post registration education
• Previous urology experience
• Degree level education
• Advanced communication skills
• Previous project work
• Previous leadership experience

Important information about your application

• All correspondence will be sent to you via the email address you applied from. Please ensure you check your emails regularly.
• References - please ensure you provide email addresses for all referees for the last three years of employment.
• We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from everyone regardless of ethnicity, disability, gender, age, faith or sexual orientation. Appointment will be based on merit alone.
• Flexible working will be considered in line with Trust policies
• New recruits are required to pay for their Disclosure and Barring Service check (and admin fee) prior to starting if the role requires a DBS check.
• We work with ‘trac.jobs’ to support out recruitment process. If you have any queries regarding this please read this privacy notice.

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM) has been awarded the Gold Award for proudly supporting those who serve. We actively encourage applications from the Armed Forces community.

We will communicate with you regarding your job application via email. Please be aware that we cannot guarantee the security of any emails sent/received via non encrypted format.

If you would like support completing an application form, please contact the recruitment department on 01782 675533 where one of our trained assistants will be able to help

At UHNM we are fortunate to receive a high volume of applications for many of our roles, on this occasion we would reserve the right to close any advert early, therefore please apply without delay!

If you obtained your qualifications overseas, you will be required to provide an official government translation through ECCTIS (formerly known as NARIC). Please note, this is in addition to any professional registration requirements and not a replacement for your qualifications.

If you are currently in the UK on a visa, you must have at least six months remaining on your visa at the time of your start date to ensure sufficient time for the operational and training process associated with the role. The requirement of at least six months remaining on your visa does not apply to a Skilled Worker Visa, as a new Skilled Worker Visa would be required for a new role.

UHNM supports the responsible use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to assist in preparing your supporting statement. However, we reserve the right to reject applications where AI has been used in a misleading manner, for example, by implying experience or understanding that the applicant does not possess or where its use is excessive or unfair. If AI has been used to support your application, you must declare this within your submission.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.