Job summary
- Main area
- Skin Cancer
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- 2 years (fixed term)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (8am - 4pm / 8.30am - 4.30pm)
- Job ref
- 151-ES-32
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Heatherwood Hospital (Cross - Site)
- Town
- Ascot
- Salary
- £32,602 - £39,686 per annum incl HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Cancer Nurse (Skin Cancer)
Band 5
Job overview
The post holder will deliver high-quality, holistic, and evidence-based care to patients with skin cancer across both outpatient and inpatient settings. Working collaboratively within a well-established multidisciplinary team, they will be supported by senior clinicians from the Skin Cancer Nursing and Plastic Surgery teams. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to personalised treatment pathways, ensuring compassionate and clinically effective care throughout the patient journey.
Main duties of the job
Provide holistic, evidence based, individualised care for skin cancer patients in an outpatient and inpatient setting
Undertake the nursing care of patients, ensuring privacy & dignity is maintained whilst being aware of physical and psychological needs.
To be aware of the needs of relatives, and to give them support and advice.
Take individual responsibility for the nursing care of a group of patients, as a registered nurse.
To participate in holistic needs assessment of patients
Develop the Skin Cancer Nursing service by becoming knowledgeable in Skin cancer, offering specialist advice, guidance to clinical staff, patients and carers.
Support the MDT with urgent patient queries
Provide remote telephone support and advice to patients with a skin cancer diagnosis. Including holistic needs assessment and patient queries
Act as a specialist resource, communicating with patients, and their family, assessing their needs and providing relevant support, information, education, advice and counselling when necessary.
Facilitate effective communication and signpost patients and carers to appropriate support, tertiary and community services to promote a seamless service and reduce/avoid admissions and length of stay to the acute trust.
Provide Personalised Care and support planning to skin cancer patients including helping patients with self-supported care.
Encourage user involvement in the development of the skin Cancer Service through the use of surveys and audit.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Current NMC Registration
- Diploma or degree in Adult Nursing
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Desirable criteria
- Advanced Communications Skills Training
- Psychology Level 2 training
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates good communication and presentation skills, both verbal and written
- Ability to work independently under supervision, but equally well as a team member
- Copes well with responsibility, pressure and emotional circumstances
- Patient education skills
- Good time management and organisational skills
Professional/ Specialist / Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant post registration experience in Dermatology, Oncology or plastic surgery
- Experience of Multi-professional working
- Ability to work at pace, establish effective working relationships within the team.
- Awareness of the national cancer agenda and guidelines
- Ability to travel and work between sites
- Excellent time management and organisational skills.
- Ability to manage multiple and conflicting priorities and meet specific deadlines
Desirable criteria
- Ability to work occasional flexible hours to meet the needs of the service
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Laura O'Hare
- Job title
- Skin Cancer Nurse Specialist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 613 3535
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