Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a Dermatology Skin Cancer CNS to join our team.
We’re looking for enthusiastic, committed and hardworking individuals who are eager to develop their skills and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
You will act as a keyworker for the patients diagnosed with skin cancer. Providing a link between patients and healthcare professionals across primary, secondary and tertiary care and act as an advocate for patients and families.
You will continually develop, implement and evaluate the skin cancer service to improve and maintain standards of patient care and pd that their recommendations are disseminated to the MDT team.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will act as Keyworker for patients diagnosed with skin cancer providing a link between patients and health care professionals across primary, secondary and tertiary care and act as an advocate for patients/families
The post-holder will continually develop, implement and evaluate the Skin Cancer Service to improve and maintain standards of patient care and promote a seamless service within a multi-professional framework
Be a clinical expert in skin cancer with excellent communication skills. The role requires the ability to work autonomously and independently but within an integrated collaborative team
Ensure that the users of the service are actively involved in the development of the service and that their recommendations are disseminated to the MDT and the Cancer Management Team ensuring appropriate actions are devised
Establish follow up nurse led clinics for newly diagnosed patients and skin cancer patients undergoing treatment
Ensure their role reflects the core components of the clinical nurse specialist which includes: clinical practice, management, organisation, education, research and audit, taking into account the national cancer agenda and its impact on service delivery.
Working for our organisation
We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with.
They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission.
We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care.
We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance.
We run a Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.
Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.
All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. •Registered General Nurse
Skills/ Abilities
Essential criteria
2. •Ability to work independently, but equally well as a team member
Desirable criteria
3. •Previous experience of working as a Clinical Nurse Specialist
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
4. •Previous experience in skin cancer nursing
Desirable criteria
5. •Previous experience of running nurse led clinics
Applicant requirements
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.
If you have problems applying, contact
Address Queen's Hospital
Rom Valley Way
Romford
Essex
RM7 0AG
Telephone 01708 435000 5936