Job overview

The Royal Marsden Pain Management Service is excited to offer an excellent opportunity for an experienced and motivated nurse to join our specialist team.

As a Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist or Band 6 (developing role), you will play a key role within a dynamic multidisciplinary team, delivering expert assessment, management, and coordination of care for patients across our Chelsea (London) and Sutton (Surrey) sites. You will contribute to the delivery of safe, effective, and compassionate care in both inpatient and outpatient settings.

This is a varied and rewarding role that combines advanced clinical practice with leadership and service development. Alongside providing high-quality patient care, you will support the growth of colleagues through teaching and mentorship, both formally and informally. You will also take an active role in service improvement, leading audits, contributing to research, and driving initiatives that enhance patient care and outcomes.

The successful applicant will be based primarily at their preferred site, with flexibility to work across both locations in line with service needs.

For further details or an informal discussion, please contact:
Roya Hejazi, Lead Nurse in Pain Management – [email protected] (02089156899 Ext 1715)

or

Yara Osman De Oliveira, Matron – CCU, Outreach, Resus and Pain Team – [email protected] (Ext 1679)

Main duties of the job

The Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) in Pain Management plays a pivotal role in delivering and enhancing specialist pain management services across The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, supporting both inpatient and outpatient care at the Chelsea and Sutton sites. This advanced clinical role focuses on the assessment and management of acute, chronic, and complex pain in patients with cancer, including those referred to specialist clinics such as chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy, neuromodulation, and capsaicin services. As an expert practitioner, the CNS will provide direct patient care while also leading service development initiatives, promoting excellence in cancer pain management through clinical leadership, innovation, education, and research. 

Working for our organisation

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is a world-leading cancer centre. Our role is to offer our patients the best cancer care available anywhere in the world, and to continue to make a global contribution to finding better ways of diagnosing and treating cancer. We employ over 4,500 staff in a diverse range of careers including nursing, medical, science, radiography, pharmacy, occupational therapy, finance and administrative services. We have two hospitals – one in Chelsea, London, and one in Sutton, Surrey – as well as a Medical Daycare Unit in Kingston Hospital.

At The Royal Marsden, we deal with cancer every day, so we understand how valuable life is. When people entrust their lives to us, they have the right to demand the very best. That's why the pursuit of excellence lies at the heart of everything we do.

At the heart of the hospital is our dedicated team. We offer a stimulating and dynamic working environment, a wide range of staff benefits, learning and development opportunities and clear career pathways. There are opportunities to work flexibly across a range of areas and specialities and we welcome flexible working requests from point of hire to support employees work life balance. We are looking for employees who aspire to excellence, share our values and can play a crucial role in our on-going achievements.