South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust
Interview date - Tuesday 13th May 2025 AM
The post-holder will play an essential role in developing our ambition to continue to build a high-quality clinical Dermatology service. The successful applicant will be a committed clinician with specialist training in Dermatology and a commitment to excellent clinical service delivery, service improvement, teaching, training and other qualities as identified in the person specification.
Main duties of the job
Working for SWUFT you will work between our newly refurbished Warwick Dermatology Centre based on Cape Road Warwick and Stratford Hospital with commitment to attend Warwick main site for any urgent in-patient referrals. Our centre undertakes all assessments, therapeutic treatments and minor operations for general dermatology and cancer patients. We have a team of dedicated dermatology nurses, cancer nurse specialists and support workers within the centre and medical secretarial support.
This is a tentative job plan and the department will be flexible to meet the appointee needs to agree on a flexible job plan to ensure health and wellbeing and achieve work life balance.
About us
Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
Job responsibilities
This is an especially exciting time to join the team as we have just relocated to newly refurbished premises in the centre of Warwick. This is a unit purely dedicated to the Dermatology department housing consultants, nurses and the secretarial team.
We provide a comprehensive General Dermatology and Skin Cancer Service to the patients of South Warwickshire. The majority of the Outpatient Clinics take place at Warwick Hospital (which will relocate to the new premises), with some clinics being at Stratford Hospital. We also provide Inpatient Dermatology Services at Warwick Hospital, and take referrals from patients under other teams who have skin problems.
Skin surgery is provided at Stratford Hospital and in the Dermatology Jephson Unit. Dr B Gee provides an Advanced Skin Surgery Service. Several Nurse Led Biopsy Lists operate each week at Warwick and Stratford Hospitals.
Person Specification
Satisfactory Occupational Health Clearance
* Satisfactory Occupational Health Clearance
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust
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