Employer: University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: University Hospital North Midlands
Town: Stoke on Trent
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 19/02/2025 23:59
Skin Cancer Clinical Nurse
Band 6
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Skin Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist to join a small nursing team delivering care to patients with a skin cancer diagnosis. This is an interesting and varied post involving face to face and telephone care, management of patients with skin cancer including being there at diagnosis to support and supporting them through their journey. Your skills and knowledge should also enable you to undertake nurse led follow up clinics of patients with a skin cancer diagnosis, under the care of a doctor. At band 6 entry level you will have support from the existing Lead Skin Cancer Nurses and the wider nursing team. Regular in-house teaching and appropriate external conferences also support essential knowledge in this fast moving field. Personal attributes you will need are excellent communication and interpersonal skills with an ability to maintain accuracy and attention to detail even when working under pressure. You must also be proactive and motivated to learn this specialist field to high standard and deliver high-quality, safe, evidence based and compassionate patient care, with excellent organisational skills and be computer literate.
Main duties of the job
* Running follow-up clinics
* Providing education and counselling to patients, carers, and their families
* Working alongside and liaising with the Multidisciplinary team
* Answering the phone and triaging calls
* Supporting patients face to face and by telephone
* Ensuring timely care for patients
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 our 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
For further information on this vacancy, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification or contact the Hiring Manager.
Person specification
Shortlisting
* Registered Nurse RGN
* Minimum of 3 years relevant experience
* Attended an advanced communication skills course and up to date
Nursing
* Registered Nurse RGN
* 5 years post registration experience
* Minimum of 3 years relevant experience
* Willing to undertake a qualification or competence in dermoscopy and/or lesions recognition
* Current qualification or competence in dermoscopy and/or lesions recognition
* Evidence of masters level study
* Experience in skin cancer nursing
* Experience in dermatology, plastic surgery and/or oncology
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse on the NMC register with a minimum 5 years post registration
* Attended an advanced communication skills course and up to date
* Evidence of masters level study in relevant field
* Current qualification or competence in dermoscopy and/or lesion recognition
Experience
* Minimum 3 years experience in a relevant area
* Experience in dermatology, plastic surgery and/or oncology
* Experience in skin cancer nursing
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.
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 application to ensure sufficient time for the recruitment 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.
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.
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