Cancer Nurse (Skin Cancer)

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust; Ascott-under-Wychwood; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a registered nurse to deliver holistic care for skin cancer patients, both outpatient and inpatient. The role includes assessing individual needs, supporting both patients and families, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams. This position promotes flexible working patterns and prioritizes a healthy work-life balance for staff.

Benefits

First-class development opportunities

Flexible working arrangements

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• Registered nurse status required.
• Experience in providing holistic patient care preferred.
• Knowledge in skin cancer management is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality care for skin cancer patients.
• Support patient and family needs during care.
• Assist in holistic needs assessment and clinical support.

Job description

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.

Please note: this role is based on an 8am 4pm or 8.30am - 4.40pm working day, Monday to Friday.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Additional information

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.

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For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.

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