Band 6 Clinical Nurse Specialist (Skin Oncology) - Dermatology
Requirements
Candidates must be a registered nurse with valid NMC registration and evidence of post-registration qualifications in dermatology or oncology. Significant post-registration experience and a passion for the specialty are essential.
Job Description
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated registered nurse to join the Dermatology Service as a Band 6 Skin Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) based at Solihull and Good Hope Hospital part of UHB.
This is a key role within the skin cancer service, providing expert clinical care and acting as a Key Worker for patients across the cancer pathway. The post holder will manage a specialist caseload, delivering advanced clinical assessment, coordinating care, and supporting patients from diagnosis through treatment and follow-up.
The post holder will liaise with other Health Care Professionals, including the Primary Health Care Team and Tertiary Centres, to provide the best possible care for patients, ensuring co-ordination and continuity of care from initial diagnosis to discharge into the community and throughout the whole patient journey.
The role also contributes to service development, education and quality improvement, ensuring care is delivered in line with national cancer standards and best practice.
The post holder will act as an expert specialist resource for Skin cancer and benign disease, collaborating with all members of the multi-professional team, to facilitate a collaborative approach to patient care. The role involves attending weekly multidisciplinary team meetings and representing MDT as required at local/regional business/expert advisory group meetings.
Main Duties, Tasks & Skills Required
Provide treatment/advice as per speciality and scope of practice, this may be face to face, virtual or telephone and incorporate the use of agreed protocols, clinical and professional guidelines, within an acute secondary healthcare facility.
To operate the Skin cancer nurse-led telephone / email information and support service to provide specialist advice and support for patients with concerns about signs, symptoms, disease management or pathway related issues
Carry out specialist clinical practice within a designated group of patients as part of a multidisciplinary team.
Ensure that high quality, current evidence-based nursing care underpins all actions with patients and is aligned to professional values of care, compassion and respect.
Provide a seamless, high-quality service from referral through to assessment, diagnosis, treatment and review, referring to other specialists as required.
Demonstrate safe, appropriate practice and specialist nursing advice using up to date knowledge and evidence.
Use professional judgment to act as advocate for patients, support and enable patients and carers to make informed decisions.
Supervise, carry out and assist with clinical procedures/practice as required, ensuring optimal recovery to health of the patient.
Ensure effective handover of patients between health care professionals using a range of communication aids.
Undertaking nurse-led clinics working in parallel with multidisciplinary team members.
About Us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Job Description
Please note for a specific detailed job description for this vacancy please see attached job description.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse with valid NMC registration
- Evidence of post registration CPD / post registration qualification in appropriate area of speciality (e.g.Dermatology and/or Oncology) or professional knowledge supplemented by specialist experience and short courses to FHEQ Level 6
- Varied Outpatient experience and undertakes Nurse led Clinics.
- Advanced communication skills or counselling
- Holistic assessment
Essential
- Evidence and ability to revalidate as required by the NMC
- Significant post registration experience, with evidence of passion/ enthusiasm and knowledge for the associated area of specialist practice
- Evidence of achievements and career development in current post and of on-going professional development/ competence
- Demonstrate specialist knowledge underpinned by theory and CPD relevant to speciality
- Experience and enthusiasm for teaching/assessing and supervising others in a clinical setting
- Experience of working in a multi disciplinary and cross agency work environment
- Demonstrate understanding / experience / willingness to be a practice-based supervisor / assessor as detailed in the NMC
- Experience in service development
- Minor skin surgery
- Wound care/tissue viability
- Clinical audit activity
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.
UK Professional Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
For Help With Your Application, Contact
Charlotte Louise Wood
charlottelouise.wood@uhb.nhs.uk
01214244143
Pay scheme
Agenda for Change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£39959.00 to £48117.00 Yearly
Contract
Fixed Term
Duration
12 Month(s)
Working pattern
Full-Time, Flexible Working
Reference number
304-9018175
Job locations
Trustwide
Mindelsohn Way
Birmingham
West Midlands
B15 2TH
Attachments
Job Description
JD PS - B 6 Clinical Nurse Specialist (Skin Oncology) - Dermatology.pdf – 437KB Opens in a new window
Education
Skills
About University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in England, serving a regional, national and international population. It includes Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Solihull Hospital and Community Services, Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield and Birmingham Chest Clinic. We also run a number of smaller satellite units, allowing people to be treated as close to home as possible. We see and treat more than 2.2 million people every year across our sites and our hospitals deliver more babies than anywhere else in Europe. We are a regional centre for cancer, trauma, renal dialysis, burns and plastics, HIV and AIDS, as well as respiratory conditions like cystic fibrosis. We also have expertise in premature baby care, bone marrow transplants and thoracic surgery and have the largest solid organ transplantation programme in Europe. We provide a series of highly specialist cardiac, liver and neurosurgery services to patients from across the UK. We are world-renowned for our trauma care and have developed pioneering surgical techniques in the management of ballistic and blast injuries, including bespoke surgical solutions for previously unseen injuries. As a result of its clinical expertise in treating trauma patients and military casualties, the QEHB has been designated both a Level 1 Trauma Centre and host of the UK’s only £20m National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research Centre (SRMRC). We have over 24,000 members of staff and we are committed to investing in their development and their health and wellbeing. UHB is a Stonewall Diversity Champion and aims to achieve positive change for LGBTQ+ people by creating an inclusive, inspiring and equal environment for both staff and service users.
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