Lung Cancer Screening Nurse | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£39,959 - £48,117 per annum
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Colchester, CO4 5JL
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	21 Jul 2026
Closing date:	20 Aug 2026

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Summary

We are seeking a compassionate, motivated, and forward‑thinking Lung Cancer Screening Support Nurse to join our expanding multidisciplinary team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in improving early detection, supporting high‑risk individuals, and delivering personalised care to people affected by lung cancer.

You will work at the forefront of targeted lung health interventions, supporting patients through screening pathways, diagnostic investigations, and onward referral. Your expertise will help reduce health inequalities, promote prevention, and ensure that every person receives timely, high‑quality, evidence‑based care.

If you’re passionate about targeted health interventions, early diagnosis, and delivering exceptional patient‑centred care, we’d love to hear from you. This is your opportunity to help shape a service that saves lives and transforms outcomes for our community.

• Provide specialist nursing expertise across the Lung Cancer Screening (LCS) pathway.

• Undertake holistic assessments, risk evaluations, and personalised support for individuals identified through screening.

• Act as a key point of contact for patients, families, and carers, offering clear information, emotional support, and guidance.

• Work collaboratively with respiratory physicians, radiologists, cancer nurse specialists, and primary care colleagues.

• Support shared decision‑making and promote smoking cessation, health improvement, and early intervention.

• Contribute to service development, audit, and quality improvement initiatives.

• Participate in MDT meetings and ensure seamless coordination of care.

• Maintain accurate clinical documentation and uphold the highest standards of professional practice.

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

This advert closes on Tuesday 4 Aug 2026

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