Skin Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist
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Job summary
An exciting opportunity has become available for an enthusiastic experienced Cancer Nurse To help develop and deliver cancer services within Dermatology Colchester.
The candidate will be expected to undertake the master's program including Non-medical prescribing to enable them to develop nurse led clinics with new and follow-up patients.
This will be a demanding role with the expectations that the candidate will continue developing nurse led service within Cancer care in dermatology at a national and international level.
Although previous dermatology experience is desirable many aspects of the role can be undertaken with extensive knowledge of cancer pathways and knowledge of skin cancers can be developed supported through in house competencies and MSc programme.
There will also be the opportunity to develop surgical skills for the management and treatment of skin cancers, supported by academic modules.
Main duties of the job
- Be an autonomous practitioner, responsible for ensuring safe, effective and holistic care of patients with Skin cancer and dermatology conditions
- Prescribe treatments as a non-medical prescriber
- Clinical role in F2F and Telephone clinics
- Nursing development and promotion of dermatology nursing
- Opportunity to develop/continue if experienced in lesion recognition or surgical biopsies.
About us
One of the largest Trust's in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area. We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients' own homes. You will be joining a team of over 11,000 amazing colleagues providing care to 800,000 residents.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a range of services including mental health support. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.
To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship. All successful applicants will be required to undertake a skills review to facilitate this. For full details please see the attached Apprenticeship Handbook
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.
Find out about living and working with us - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkPu7HphU8A
Details
Date posted
25 July 2023
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£43,742 to £50,056 a year Per annum pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
432-HR890-23
Job locations
Colchester
Colchester
CO4 5JL
Employer details
Employer name
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Colchester
Colchester
CO4 5JL
Employer's website
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