Job summary
- Main area
- Plastic Surgery
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 390-B&D-BR-3249
- Employer
- Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Broomfield
- Town
- Chelmsford
- Salary
- £38,682 Per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Skin Cancer Nurse Specialist
Band 6
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is the only acute hospital provider in the Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System (ICS), which is a system of health and care partners working together for our local population.
Within Mid and South Essex there are 149 GP practices, operating from over 200 sites, forming 27 Primary Care Networks and one Ambulance Trust. There are also three main community and mental health service providers who work together through a community collaborative.
We collaborate with other valuable partners, including three Healthwatch organisations, nine voluntary and community sector organisations and three top tier local authorities, with seven district, borough and city councils, as well as our local universities.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Plastic Surgery Skin Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS)Team
As a Skin Cancer CNS your role is to provide comprehensive nursing support to patients and their carer's with a diagnosis of skin cancer. The ideal candidate will work as an autonomous clinical expert in assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating expert nursing care given to skin cancer patients.
The successful candidate will join a well-established team and will need to be flexible and adaptable, a good team player with the ability to work well on their own initiative and willing to take on a variety of duties, whilst having the ability to maintain attention to detail.
The successful Candidate will need to have knowledge or experience within cancer services
Excellent communication skills will be required as well as the ability to work with different computer programmes.
This role will be across multi-sites working in our satellite clinics so the successful candidate will need to have access to a car and be able to drive.
Main duties of the job
Work autonomously to manage his/her own caseload of patients, whilst working as part of the multidisciplinary team. Maintain effective communication with out patients, relatives and professionals to ensure seamless service delivery.
Provide support, verbal and written information on Skin cancer's newly referred patients and their families enabling patients to make an informed decision on their treatment.
Assess new and follow up patients in the nurse led clinics to identify their psychological, physiological, emotional needs in relation to their disease and treatment.
Travel to satellite clinics provided within Skin cancer and offer support and clinical knowledge to patients and their relatives.
Reporting to the Band 7 CNS and Matron on all aspects of clinical activities, including significant changes affecting provisions of nursing care.
Working for our organisation
Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.
We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We look forward to your application. Please refer to attached Job Description for full list of responsibilities.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- 2 years post qualifying experience
- Evidence of post registration development/ course in plastic surgery, dermatology/or cancer care
Desirable criteria
- Consultation and Assessment experience
- Clinical experience in plastic surgery or dermatology nursing
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel between trusts
- SSSA qualification
Desirable criteria
- Nurse Prescribing
- Awareness of political and professional agenda in cancer care
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Marianne Horne
- Job title
- Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03004435298
- Additional information
For further information and informal visits please contact Skin Cancer CNS's or Marianne Horne - Matron
Deborah Gallagher- [email protected]
Marianne Horne - [email protected]
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