Skin Cancer CNS

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Skin Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist, to join a 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.

Communication & Relationship Skills

The post holder will be required to

• Running follow-up clinics
• Providing education and counselling to patient, carers ad their families
• Attending MDT meetings
• 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
• Fulfil the role of key worker
• Advanced communication skills
• Utilise Skin clinical skills
• Teach and empower other health care professionals
• Active member of Skin cancer patient multi-disciplinary team
• Implement and contribute to the writing of standard operational policies and attend governance meetings
• Remain responsible for producing and updating patient information
• Respond to departmental on-going developments
• Work unsupervised but managed
• Remain responsible for self and delegated tasks
• Recognise when help and guidance is required
• Participate in research and clinical trials
• Instigate nursing audit / research
• Supportive of all Skin nursing roles
• Commit to educational programs required to fulfil succession planning departmental objectives

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 or 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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Kerry Rigby Job title: Leas Skin Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist Email address: ***email_hidden*** Telephone number: 01782 674699