Clinical Nurse Specialist – Plastics
The closing date is 14 April 2026
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and motivated Band 6 Plastic Specialist Dressings Nurse to join the Plastics team at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust. We are looking for an individual with strong interpersonal and communication skills who can contribute to a supportive, forward-thinking nursing culture. The ideal candidate will embrace innovation, promote high standards of care, and reflect the Trust's values and strategic vision.
In this role, you will lead day-to-day operations within our nurse-led plastic dressing clinics, support consultant-led outpatient services, and work closely with the Plastic Surgeons and Plastic Surgery Lead Clinical Nurse, supporting and deputising as needed to ensure excellent patient care and the effective management of resources.
The post also includes reviewing inpatients undergoing plastic surgery across the Trust and offering remote advice to patients and healthcare teams in other settings. You will play an active role in the education and training of staff involved in the care of plastic surgery patients.
If you are passionate about point-of-care delivery and specialised plastics nursing, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
* Work full-time across both Calderdale and Huddersfield hospital sites, delivering specialist care within outpatient settings, Monday to Friday.
* Provide nurse-led clinics, steroid injection clinics and minor operations clinics alongside consultants and surgical plastic clinical lead nurse.
* Responsible for managing nurse‑led minor skin cancer surgery.
* Take overall responsibility for the day‑to‑day running of the Plastic Dressing Clinics, ensuring service continuity, leading development, and implementing changes as required.
* Manage an independent caseload of post‑operative plastic surgery patients, undertaking assessment, treatment planning, wound management, advice, and ongoing monitoring through to discharge. This may occasionally include home visits.
* Participate in patient education, promoting holistic care and supporting individuals to understand and engage with their treatment plans.
* Advocate for patients by clearly representing their views, promoting their interests, and ensuring their dignity is always upheld.
* Maintain consistently high standards of care and take prompt action where these standards are not met.
* Work both autonomously and collaboratively as part of the wider multidisciplinary team.
* Adhere to the NMC Code of Practice and all Trust policies, procedures, and clinical guidelines relevant to the role.
* Maintain an awareness of national and regional initiatives.
About us
CHFT is an integrated Trust of 6,500+ colleagues providing hospital and community services to patients and communities across Calderdale and Kirklees. We are rated as 'Good' by the Care Quality Commission, are a top performing Trust for Elective Recovery, Emergency and Cancer Care and widely acknowledged as a national digital lead when it comes to caring for people across our local and regional systems.
Our people are at the core of everything we do, and we are committed to One Culture of Care. We focus on caring for and supporting each other to provide outstanding compassionate care to our patients. That is why we are looking for an inclusive, collaborative, creative, innovative and compassionate leader to join us in this role.
Person Specification
* Registered with the NMC
* Non-Medical prescriber or willingness to undertake
* Post registration experience/qualification relevant to the specialism or willingness to work toward
* Teaching Qualification
* Evidence of self-development
* Experience of working in Plastics
* Experience of working in Outpatient nursing
* Experience of using EPR
* Excellent verbal, written and listening communication skills
* Ability to foster multi-disciplinary working
* Works within budgetary parameters
* Experience of change management
* Experience of lone working
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.
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
£39,959 to £48,117 a year per annum, pro rata
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