Skin Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist - Team Leader

York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; York and North Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent NHS Trust in York is seeking an experienced Band 7 Skin Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist Team Lead. You’ll provide expert care and leadership, helping to shape high-quality, patient-centred services for individuals with skin cancer. The ideal candidate is a registered nurse with strong communication skills, organizational abilities, and a passion for cancer care. This role includes generous benefits and opportunities for personal development.

Benefits

Access to the NHS Pension Scheme

27 days holiday rising to 33 days

Confidential Employee Assistance Programme

Discounts on restaurants and shopping

Learning and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Ability to work autonomously within scope of practice and job description.
• Experience in cancer care and skin cancer services is preferred.
• Commitment to personal development.

Responsibilities

• Work within a high-quality specialist service to meet the needs of patients with skin cancer.
• Provide specialist knowledge and support for patients and multidisciplinary staff.
• Assess educational needs of staff and develop educational programmes.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Ability to work in a diverse multidisciplinary team

Self-motivated

Organised

Computer literate

Education

Registered nurse

Job description

Overview

A Vacancy at York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Are you an experienced and motivated cancer nurse looking for the next step in your career? The Cancer Nursing Team at York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a dynamic and dedicated Band 7 Skin Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist Team Lead to join our team. In this pivotal role, you’ll provide expert care and leadership within the skin cancer service, helping to shape high-quality, patient-centred care across the Trust. Based at York Hospital, the role also requires the flexibility to travel as part of your responsibilities. If you're passionate about cancer care and ready to take on a leadership role within a supportive and forward-thinking team, we’d love to hear from you.

The role requires a registered nurse who can work autonomously within their scope of practice and of the job description and support the team to deliver safe effective care to our patients. Furthermore, the appointee must be equipped with excellent communication skills and the ability to work within a diverse multi-disciplinary group of clinicians, patients, and allied healthcare providers. You must be self-motivated, enthusiastic, organised, computer literate and able to demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills with a commitment to continued personal development.

We would strongly encourage anyone interested in this exciting opportunity to contact us for further details. Please ring – Tracey Doherty - 01904 21822

We look forward to receiving your application!

Responsibilities

• Work within a high-quality specialist service to meet the needs of patients with skin cancer and contribute to the continual development of patient pathways for assessment, implementation and management of care for this patient group.
• Provide specialist knowledge and information resources for multidisciplinary staff, colleagues, patients and families; support the physical, emotional, psychological, social and spiritual needs of patients with a diagnosis of skin cancer.
• Assess educational needs of staff and develop, deliver programmes of education to multidisciplinary team members.
• Inform service development needs and initiate and implement service development and delivery; act as a key link within the Cancer Alliance to enhance communication and continuity of care between the cancer unit and the centre.
• Based at York Hospital with ability to travel as required to fulfil duties.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Registered nurse with the ability to work autonomously within scope of practice and job description.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work in a diverse multidisciplinary team.
• Self-motivated, enthusiastic, organised, computer literate and committed to personal development.
• Experience in cancer care and skin cancer services is preferred.

Benefits

• Access to the NHS Pension Scheme, with generous retirement benefits, plus lump sum and pension for dependants.
• 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service).
• Various paid and unpaid leave options for emergency and planned leave.
• Confidential Employee Assistance Programme, 24/7 support for personal, work, family and relationship issues.
• NHS Car Lease scheme and Cycle to Work scheme.
• Learning and development opportunities.
• Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping, motoring, cinema and finance from a range of providers.

For further information on benefits, please visit the Trust's Staff Benefits pages. A full description of the role is available in the attachment: job description.

Interviews for this position will be held in person ONLY and remote interviews will not be offered. Validity of the NMC pin will be checked at shortlisting; inaccuracies may mean we are unable to progress your application further.

Working for the Trust

Across our organisation, people are guided by values that were co-developed with staff: we are kind; we are open; and we pursue excellence. Our values support a more diverse workforce and involve Staff Networks (including Race Equality, LGBTQ+, Disability and Carers Networks). If you need accessibility adjustments for the application process, please contact: [e-mail]. We are also an Armed Forces Friendly Employer and hold the Gold Award from the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme to support Defence personnel in applications for employment.

This advert closes on Sunday 12 Oct 2025