Skin Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist | Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 15 Hydref 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £47,810 - £54,710 per annum, pro rata |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 14 Tachwedd 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Swindon, SN3 6BB |
| Cwmni: | The Great Western Hospitals NHS FT |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7495403/249-7495403 |
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The Skin Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) within Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (The Trust) is an experienced member of staff who works within and may lead a team within a defined area of specialist nursing care.
The Skin Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist will act as Key Worker and therefore specialist resource of current clinical information addressing the specific needs of individual patients through direct / indirect interventions. The post holder will liaise across all care settings, referring patients to other relevant Health Care Professionals, when appropriate. A key part of the role will be collaborative working, aiming to provide a seamless service between the Great Western Hospital Foundation Trust, other Hospital Trusts, hospices, Primary Care and the voluntary sector.
Another key objective of the role is to work as part of and contribute to the ongoing development of the site-specific multidisciplinary teams.
The Skin Cancer CNS will be a positive influencer, who has the expertise and highly developed skills to interpret and communicate speciality knowledge. The CNS will ensure that best evidence-based practice within the speciality is promoted throughout the Trust supporting at all times the provision of compassionate, safe and high-quality care for all patients.
The Skin Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) will work within the Skin Cancer CNS Team and alongside Dermatologist, Plastic Surgeons, Oncologists and the wider Multidisciplinary Team supporting patients diagnosed with a skin cancer.
The aim of the post is to enhance the patient quality of life when diagnosed with skin cancer, supporting patients, families and carers. The post holder will act as a key worker identifying the needs of this patient population using his/her expertise in clinical, knowledge and interpersonal skills to support the management of symptoms and treatments.
The post holder will be an autonomous practitioner managing a caseload of patients from diagnosis. This will involve the provision of specialist advice and liaison with appropriate Health Care Professionals across all care settings and Dermatology Multidisciplinary Teams in other Trusts. The CNS will be expected to deliver nurse-led clinics supporting patients with skin cancer.
The post holder will work within the Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist Team, alongside the Cancer Management Team, clinical colleagues in dermatology, oncology, plastic surgery, radiology, palliative care and pathology, to ensure quality of care to the patient is maximised.
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the biggest
healthcare providers and employers in the South West, with over 2.5 million patient contacts a year.
We are currently embedding a continuous improvement methodology we call Improving Together into our organisation. This approach empowers our staff by equipping them with the necessary training and support to transform their ideas into reality.
To guide our endeavours, we have devised a Trust Strategy founded on four pivotal pillars — outstanding patient care, people feeling valued, integrated care and getting value for money. This framework demonstrates our commitment to enhancing patient care and ensuring the sustainability of our services.
We are cultivating a culture that fosters our ambitions, prioritising inclusion, wellbeing, and leadership. We aim to create an environment where every member of our team can truly thrive.
Our 5,500+ devoted staff work hard to provide exceptional patient care everyday.
1. To support, by demonstrating exemplar nursing practice and the implementation of evidence-based care, the provision of a high standard of individualised patient care and experience, upholding the Trust Nursing Strategy which includes the 6Cs.
2. Responsible for ensuring own knowledge of and compliance with appropriate NMC standards and revalidation and Trust professional guidelines and that these are applied to practice.
3. Assess, potentially highly complex, patients, planning, implementing and reviewing care within the hospital environment, both in-patient and out-patient, community or other settings.
4. Ensure accurate and contemporaneous patient, staff and other records are maintained, submitted and stored meeting NMC requirements.
5. Provide and receive highly complex and/or highly sensitive patient/staff related information and ensure this is interpreted and shared, where required, to ensure seamless and effective care, in line with rules of information governance.
6. Ensures clinical governance agenda encompasses continual quality improvement that focuses on safety, reducing risk and developing efficiency and quality in care.
Please see attached Job Description.
This advert closes on Tuesday 28 Oct 2025
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