Skin Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist

Job overview

The post-holder will act as keyworker for patients diagnosed with a skin malignancy and core member of the MDT, 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:

Provide an holistic, patient focused service delivering evidence based information and advice to patients with skin cancer, supporting them and their families throughout pre-diagnosis, diagnosis, treatment and follow-up care. To ensure the provision of high quality specialist nursing care to all patients with skin cancer who are being treated at Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

Establish follow up outpatient clinics for newly diagnosed patients, patients undergoing treatment and at point of discharge, implementing holistic needs assessments (HNA)

Be involved in establishing and delivering health and wellbeing events

Deliver a minor surgical clinic in line with service requirements.

Contribute to continually development, implementation and evaluation of 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, act as a resource to, the multidisciplinary team, other health care professionals and the general public. The role requires the ability to work autonomously and independently but within an integrated collaborative team.

Main duties of the job

Attend skin cancer MDT

• Be involved in establishing and delivering health and wellbeing events
• Deliver a minor surgical clinic in line with service requirements.
• Contribute to continually development, implementation and evaluation of the Skin Cancer Service to improve and maintain standards of patient care and promote a seamless service within a multi-professional framework

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached supporting document which contains more and person specification information about the role.

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.