Dermatology & Skin Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist Nurse

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Job summary

A leading NHS Foundation Trust in London seeks an experienced Clinical Nurse Specialist for Dermatology, responsible for delivering expert clinical care and managing patient caseloads. This role requires a Registered Nurse with advanced clinical skills and strong leadership qualities. Candidates will manage various dermatology clinics and collaborate closely with multidisciplinary teams to ensure high standards of care.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse status required.
• Advanced practitioner qualification or extensive clinical experience in Dermatology.
• Degree or working towards a health-related qualification.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of patients and provide effective nursing expertise.
• Conduct nurse-led clinics and ensure high-quality patient care.
• Support skin cancer patients and maintain compliance with national standards.

Skills

Leadership skills

Communication skills

Clinical governance understanding

Safeguarding procedures understanding

Education

Registered Nurse

Degree (BSc) in health-related subject

Non-Medical Prescribing course

Dermatology N25 Course

Phototherapy Course

Job description

Employer St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site St George's Hospital Town London Salary £54,320 - £60,981 per annum inc HCAS (pro-rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 30/06/2025 23:59

Dermatology & Skin Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist Nurse

Band 7

Job overview

• The post holder will be expected t o work as an autonomous, advanced practitioner and effectively deliver an expert nursing service within Dermatology.
• This includes effectively managing a caseload of patients and ensuring that patients and their families are fully informed and supported by providing clinical and social support.

Main duties of the job

• Provide effective nursing expertise with in the dermatology team and ensure the provision of high quality care to patients and carers.
• Carry out nurse-led acne clinics and Systemic drug monitoring clinics including Biologics Clinics (St Georges’ site).
• Systemic monitoring clinics have clinical supervision provided by Consultant or Registrar.
• Carry out virtual results clinics.
• Carry out skin education clinics for patients with chronic skin disease eczema, psoriasis, this will include adults and paediatrics.
• Conduct photodynamic therapy clinics for patients with non-melanoma skin cancer.
• The nurse may be asked to be involved in our newly launched Teledermatology service if the service needs require it.
• Support patients diagnosed with skin cancer as keyworker and attend skin cancer MDT.
• Ensure standards for skin cancer keyworker are adhered to.
• Carry out nursing keyworker skin cancer audits to meet national and local standards.
• Collect skin cancer data in line with trust and national skin cancer standards.
• Participate in Skin Cancer Well Being Events.
• Support the two Skin Cancer CNS’s ensuring the Dermatology unit is compliant with Skin Cancer annual peer review.

Working for our organisation

St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey.Our sites include St George’s Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).

After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Please see the attached supporting document which contains more and person specification information about the role.
• This post is based at Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton but the post holder will be expected to travel to the trust's other site.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse
• An advanced practitioner either through formal qualification (Degree) and/or extensive clinical experience pertinent to the area e.g Dermatology N25 Course
• Non Medical Prescribing course or working towards
• Degree (BSc) or equivalent in a health related subject, or working towards
• Phototherapy Course ( Gwent or St Thomas’s) and relevant Phototherapy experience

Knowledge and Skills

• Strong leadership skills
• Up to date knowledge and understanding of local and national specialist guidelines
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to build up a rapport with patients and the MDT
• Ability to impart complex information to patients, relatives and carers, with different levels of understanding
• Clear understanding of safeguarding procedures
• Understanding of clinical governance and risk assessment
• Experience of running research and audit programmes

Other

• Basic Counselling skills
• Experience of delivering presentations

We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the trust – being excellent, kind, responsible and respectful – and behave in a way that reflects these. More information on the vision and values of St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is attached below.

Please note that this vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient applicants are received. Please check your email regularly as all candidates shortlisted for interview will be contacted and informed by email.

If you are appointed to the post, as part of your pre-employment check we will be required to verify your identity. The document/s you present for this purpose will be checked for their authenticity by scanning all known security features. These features will include:

- The machine readable zone
- An ultra violet image
- An infra red image

As part of your pre-employment checks, we will also be required to obtain satisfactory, written references. Please ensure that the referee details which you provide on your application form are correct. We require at least one written reference from your current or most recent line manager. We are only able to accept references from a professional work email address.

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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.