East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
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 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.
Main duties of the job
* 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.
Job responsibilities
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse First Level
* Post registration qualifications relevant to speciality
* Teaching qualification
* Master's degree (or working towards. If not acquired-willing to undertake)
Experience
* Dermatology Experience
* Experience at band 6 level
* Experience of GI nursing
* Skin Cancer Experience
* Experience in research and audit
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.
£43,742 to £50,056 a year Starting salary from £43,742 per annum
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