Skin Cancer Nurse Specialist

NHS; Chelmsford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Skin Cancer Nurse Specialist to provide comprehensive nursing support for skin cancer patients. The ideal candidate will work autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary team, ensuring seamless service delivery and support for patient decision-making. This role involves collaboration in satellite clinics, requiring strong communication skills and the ability to adapt to various duties.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years post qualifying experience required.
• Experience in cancer services essential.
• Excellent communication skills required.

Responsibilities

• Manage own caseload of skin cancer patients autonomously.
• Provide support and information to patients and families.
• Assess psychological, physiological, and emotional needs in nurse-led clinics.

Skills

Nurse Prescribing

Awareness of political and professional agenda in cancer care

Ability to travel between trusts

Education

2 years post qualifying experience

Evidence of post registration development/course in plastic surgery, dermatology/or cancer care

Consultation and Assessment experience

Clinical experience in plastic surgery or dermatology nursing

Job description

Go back Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Skin Cancer Nurse Specialist

The closing date is 22 June 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Plastic Surgery Skin Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS)Team

As a Skin Cancer CNS your role is to provide comprehensive nursing support to patients and their carer's with a diagnosis of skin cancer. The ideal candidate will work as an autonomous clinical expert in assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating expert nursing care given to skin cancer patients.

The successful candidate will join a well-established team and will need to be flexible and adaptable, a good team player with the ability to work well on their own initiative and willing to take on a variety of duties, whilst having the ability to maintain attention to detail.

The successful Candidate will need to have knowledge or experience within cancer services

Excellent communication skills will be required as well as the ability to work with different computer programmes.

This role will be across multi-sites working in our satellite clinics so the successful candidate will need to have access to a car and be able to drive.

Main duties of the job

Work autonomously to manage his/her own caseload of patients, whilst working as part of the multidisciplinary team. Maintain effective communication with out patients, relatives and professionals to ensure seamless service delivery.

Provide support, verbal and written information on Skin cancer's newly referred patients and their families enabling patients to make an informed decision on their treatment.

Assess new and follow up patients in the nurse led clinics to identify their psychological, physiological, emotional needs in relation to their disease and treatment.

Travel to satellite clinics provided within Skin cancer and offer support and clinical knowledge to patients and their relatives.

Reporting to the Band 7 CNS and Matron on all aspects of clinical activities, including significant changes affecting provisions of nursing care.

About us

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.

Job responsibilities

We look forward to your application. Please refer to attached Job Description for full list of responsibilities.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• 2 years post qualifying experience
• Evidence of post registration development/ course in plastic surgery, dermatology/or cancer care
• Consultation and Assessment experience
• Clinical experience in plastic surgery or dermatology nursing

Skills

• Ability to travel between trusts
• Nurse Prescribing
• Awareness of political and professional agenda in cancer care

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust