Band 8b/8C Lead Specialist Dermatology Nurse -Depends on experience

Job overview

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced and dynamic Lead Dermatologist Nurse to join our progressive and multidisciplinary Dermatology team.

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated professional to take a leadership role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred care to people living with dermatology conditions across our diverse North London population.

As the Nurse lead, you will be responsible for the coordination and development of specialist nurse dermatology services across all RFL sites, providing expert clinical care, education, and support to patients, families, and healthcare professionals. You will play a key role in service innovation and quality improvement, working closely with consultants, GPs, primary care teams, and community partners to ensure seamless, evidence-based care across the patient pathway.

Main duties of the job

• To lead the multi-disciplinary team, providing specialist education and advice to patients ensuring provision of NICE recommended structured education to support safe diabetes care and self-management programmes.

• To line manage and lead Dermatology Nursing across the 4 sites of the RFL Trust and to support integrated care teams with specialist advice
• To enhance joint working between hospital and community to enable patients to access their care seamlessly close to home from diagnosis to lifelong management
• To provide expert autonomous nursing care, advice and support to dermatology patients providing advanced assessment, complex clinical decision making, diagnosis and treatment including non-medical prescribing for patients referred
• To manage patients appropriately through the specialist patient pathways supporting inpatient services, outpatient and telephone clinics and MDT review
• To undertake nurse led clinics and to be responsible for excellent standards of care to patients through the planning, coordinating, delivering and evaluating clinics and services including complex dermatology conditions
• To take responsibility for own evidence-based practice
• To develop and work inside clear advance practice policies and evidence-based guidelines to support the service

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.