Job summary
Are you an experienced surgical nurse looking for a new challenge in a dynamic, supportive environment?
Join our friendly and expanding Dermatology & Skin Cancer Surgery service, the main provider of dermatological care in North and North-East Lincolnshire.
As a Band 6 Surgical Nurse, you will work across all three sites across Scunthorpe and Grimsby providing minor skin surgery including punch biopsies, curettage, and minor excisions under local anaesthetic. Youll be a key part of the multidisciplinary team, ensuring safe, efficient, and high-quality patient care.
Youll be directly managed and supported by the Lead Nurse and have the opportunity to contribute to service development, audit, clinical governance, and training initiatives.
As this role involves travel across our sites, a driving license and access to a car will be a requirement for the role.
Interviews are likely to commence week commencing 2nd June.
Main duties of the job
As a Surgical Nurse you will:
Perform minor skin surgical procedures under local anaesthetic, following PGDs and Standard Operating Procedures.
Maintain patient safety and a clean, well-stocked procedure area.
Keep accurate and contemporaneous electronic patient records.
Undertake audits and participate in clinical governance meetings.
Attend Skin Surgery Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) meetings as required.
Supervise and support junior staff, including involvement in appraisals and staff development.
Monitor and act upon histology results post-training, liaising with the MDT Co-ordinator and Skin Cancer Specialist Nurse.
Complete annual mandatory training and support quality improvement efforts.
For a full list of responsibilities, please see attached job description
About us
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services.Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2
Job description
Job responsibilities
Our ideal candidate will:
Be a NMC-registered nurse with surgical/dermatology experience
Have confidence and competence in performing minor procedures or a willingness to be trained
Be organised, flexible, and committed to continuous learning
Have an excellent communication and teamwork skills
Have willingness to undertake Non-Medical Nurse Prescribing course if required
A proactive approach to patient care and service improvement
A UK driving license and access to a car for work purposes are essential for this role
Please see attached Job description for a full list of criteria.
Within this role, you will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Salary of £39,400 pro rata with group pension and HCRG Care Group Terms and Conditions
- Free tea and coffee at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission
Job description
Job responsibilities
Our ideal candidate will:
Be a NMC-registered nurse with surgical/dermatology experience
Have confidence and competence in performing minor procedures or a willingness to be trained
Be organised, flexible, and committed to continuous learning
Have an excellent communication and teamwork skills
Have willingness to undertake Non-Medical Nurse Prescribing course if required
A proactive approach to patient care and service improvement
A UK driving license and access to a car for work purposes are essential for this role
Please see attached Job description for a full list of criteria.
Within this role, you will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Salary of £39,400 pro rata with group pension and HCRG Care Group Terms and Conditions
- Free tea and coffee at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission
Person Specification
General Requirements
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Person Specification
General Requirements
Essential
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Desirable
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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.
