Skin Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist (NHS AfC: Band 7) - Skin Cancer - East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust – Colchester, Essex
An exciting opportunity has become available for an enthusiastic experienced Cancer Nurse to help develop and deliver cancer services within Dermatology Colchester.
You will be expected to undertake the master’s program including non-medical prescribing to enable you to develop nurse-led clinics with new and follow-up patients.
This will be a demanding role with the expectations that you will continue developing nurse-led service within Cancer care in dermatology at a national and international level.
Although previous dermatology experience is desirable, many aspects of the role can be undertaken with extensive knowledge of cancer pathways, and knowledge of skin cancers can be developed supported through in-house competencies and MSc programme.
Responsibilities:
* Be an autonomous practitioner, responsible for ensuring safe, effective and holistic care of patients with Skin cancer and dermatology conditions.
* Prescribe treatments as a non-medical prescriber.
* Clinical role in Face to Face and Telephone clinics.
* Nursing development and promotion of dermatology nursing.
* Opportunity to develop/continue if experienced in lesion recognition or surgical biopsies.
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 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 offers a variety of services.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
#J-18808-Ljbffr