Dermatology Advanced Nurse Practitioner
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 07 Tachwedd 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £55,690 - £62,682 per annum |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 07 Rhagfyr 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Leigh, WN7 1HS |
| Cwmni: | Wrightington, Wigan & Leigh NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7526127/302-25-7526127SS |
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A Vacancy at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
We are looking for an Dermatology Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our team! We are recruiting to a 37.5 hour post, working Monday - Friday (part time hours, will be considered).
The role of the Advanced Clinical Practitioner is to work across professional boundaries, undertaking a variety of clinical duties, within the context of the clinical team and to work within Dermatology. The Advanced Practitioner is required to work as an autonomous clinical professional. Within the multi-disciplinary team, the Advanced Practitioner will support the provision of high-quality patient centred health care. To identify, assess, diagnose and treat adults with various Dermatological conditions.
While this position is advertised as a Band 8a role, applicants who do not currently hold an MSc in Advanced Practice or equivalent qualification may be considered for a Band 7 to Band 8a development opportunity. In such cases, the role would begin as a temporary Band 7 post, with progression to a permanent Band 8a upon successful completion of the MSc qualification. This development pathway would be offered as a fixed-term contract for two years. If you are an internal candidate or employed by another NHS Trust, secondment approval from your current line manager would be required. Please ensure approval is obtained prior to applying as it will be a condition of any offer made.
Please note that this vacancy may close early.
Depending on your knowledge, skills, and experience, you will be a key member of the Dermatology Outpatient Team, providing expert clinical advice to support accurate clinical judgement in the diagnosis, ongoing assessment, decision-making, treatment, and management of dermatology patients within the setting. You will lead the clinical development of the dermatology service in partnership with the Consultant team, contributing expertise in clinical governance and supporting the educational growth of colleagues. Advanced Practice in dermatology is delivered by experienced, registered healthcare practitioners. It involves a high degree of autonomy and complex decision-making, underpinned by a master’s level qualification or equivalent that encompasses the four pillars: clinical practice, leadership and management, education, and research. This includes demonstrating core capabilities and clinical competence specific to dermatology. The post holder will proactively advance the role by applying lessons learned from both the educational programme and practical clinical experience. The aim is to improve patient outcomes by enhancing access to dermatology services.
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that ‘happy staff, makes for happy patients’. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement, and living our values ‘the WWL Way’.
WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.
At WWL we value the benefits a rich and diverse workforce brings to our community and therefore welcome applications from all sections of society.
Key results from the job holder
·Practice at an advanced level of professional autonomy and accountability that is within national guidelines, Trust policies and NMC Codes of Conduct.
· To independently receive and make referrals and lead the management of own caseload for dermatology patient treatment, diagnosis and follow up across health care settings.
·To utilise advanced clinical reasoning skills and evidence-based knowledge in the management of patients with complex presentations and to be clinically competent to utilise skills and knowledge in a variety of clinical settings.
·To make independent clinical decisions and initiate investigations, care/treatment, and technological intervention within an agreed framework.
· To direct and use the results of specialist investigations to assist formulation of diagnosis and plan patient management from a range of interventions.
· To oversee and supervise others in delivery of nurse led clinics applicable to the post and specialty.
· Develop and conduct skilled intervention within a skin disease caseload, addressing issues such as skin assessment, treatment and care, co-morbidities, education within an agreed framework.
· To maintain up to date, client records in accordance with service policy and to contribute to maintaining minimum dataset.
• To monitor, evaluate and review dermatology nursing practice and to modify approaches to clinical care as necessary.
• To take a leadership role in the development of clinical expertise in dermatology nursing enabling nurses to develop advanced assessment, decision-making and prescribing skills.
• To assist in developing nurse-led dermatology care in collaboration with medical and multidisciplinary colleagues.
• To be an authoritative expert assessor/advisor on the management, psychological /spiritual/ social /practical and ethical needs of dermatology patients and to work in partnership with a range of
health professionals to improve skills in these areas.
• To work in close collaboration with dermatology lead consultant colleagues locally, nationally, and internationally.
• To work in collaboration with clinical teams/general management, to ensure there is a define pathway of care for general dermatology patients, facilitating timely care and treatment of patients.
• To utilise expert re-assessment to ensure that the management of planned interventions with other MDT members is maintained via the development of a systematic process of follow-up patients across the Trust and wider health care system.
• Engage with appropriate agencies as a nursing leader in the development of innovative nursing practice and initiatives.
• Enhance dermatology as a nursing specialty within the Trust.
• Develop this pioneering role to strengthen nursing leadership.
• Share knowledge and expertise, acting as an expert resource to others within and outside the organisation.
• Understand national and international standards and advise on shaping of services to meet local need.
• Set local standards promoting best practice, utilising leadership and change management skills.
• Act as a role model and advisor for staff within the Trust and the wider arena as appropriate i.e. primary care/other Trusts/national meetings
Planning and Organisational Duties
• To lead in the implementation of dermatology nursing strategy across the Trust incorporating national and international standards into local practice.
• To inform and influence local management teams to ensure that the service responds to relevant
dermatology national initiatives and directives (e.g. NICE, IOG, Peer Review).
• To work in partnership with the team and other areas in the Trust on the strategic and operational
planning of the dermatology service and to be responsible for the developments of nursing practice.
• To create, develop and implement guidelines and protocols of care relevant to medical dermatology in partnership with local/national /international agencies.
• To contribute to and influence the national dermatology policy agenda
• To provide expert input to the Trust’s quality strategy by expressing the needs of the patient via a whole system approach rather than a unilateral professional view.
• To develop innovative models of dermatology service delivery, challenging organisational and professional boundaries.
• To develop innovations between the Trust and other agencies to ensure equity and access to the dermatology service.
• To initiate and respond to dermatology user feedback by ongoing evaluation and identification of
emerging trends, leading service development and redesign.
• To lead and interpret clinical policy change as it relates to dermatology and provide expert recommendations to managers, the Trust, local and national policy working parties
• To be responsible for the maintenance of accurate written records.
• To identify appropriate outcome measures and service impact measures, which evaluate accurately patient response and service development needs.
• To maintain accurate statistical information in dermatology using databases as necessary to inform management team and drive audit programme.
• To maintain accurate statistical information in dermatology using databases as necessary to inform management team and drive audit programme.
• To flexibly manage responsibility for own complex clinical caseload, Trust and external teaching/lecturing. To be research active and contribute to service development and quality assurance.
• In collaboration with management and external agencies, to identify clinically focused research priorities.
• To use excellent prioritising and time management skills to meet the unpredictable and conflicting needs of the service.
• To develop own managerial and administrative functions in conjunction with role developments.
• To work in a stressful environment with intense concentration for periods of up to 40 minutes at a time throughout the day.
Communications and Key Working Relationships
• To demonstrate an expert ability to communicate highly complex and sensitive information to patients, carers, and other staff, where there may be barriers to communication or may include information
about long-term/permanent disabilities. This must be done whilst always ensuring confidentiality and ensuring sensitivity to the audience’s level of understanding and prior knowledge.
• To be able to motivate and persuade others through advanced communication skills, using written and electronic information where needed.
• To effectively articulate their expert perspective on a patient’s condition with colleagues when various management options are available.
• To diffuse potentially hostile and antagonistic situations with staff, patients, and relatives, using highly developed negotiation and interpersonal skills.
• To make reasonable efforts to resolve verbal complaints and to be well versed with the Trust’s formal complaints procedure.
• Contribute to clinical governance arrangements by providing expert input and securing quality improvement, including influencing other disciplines, to help deliver quality services.
• Promote best practice, utilising local and regional benchmarking groups for the generation and promotion of standards and clinical guidelines
• To carry out daily assessments and treatments of patients with moderate intense physical effort involved.
• To comply with the Trust’s Manual Handling Policy and local therapeutic handing guidelines
• To work in an environment where the work patterns are disrupted by frequent demands from patients,
clinical staff, students and administrative support staff and any emergency arising.
• To support staff when indicated in the management of challenging situations.
• To manage patients where their clinical condition may lead to anxiety and aggressive behaviour.
• To sensitively explain the results of investigations including the possible need for surgery, poor prognosis and occasionally the existence of possibly fatal pathology.
• To work in a stressful environment with intense concentration for periods of up to 40 minutes at a time throughout the day.
• To cope with occasional exposure to unpleasant working conditions (i.e. body fluids, incontinence, verbal abuse act).
Responsibility for Financial
• To propose the use of new equipment relevant to dermatology, which will develop practice, and to appraise and evaluate its’ use in the clinical setting demonstrating the need for the purchase of physical assets.
• Contribute to business planning process for dermatology, initiating bids for resources where appropriate.
• Support the Dermatology Team in identifying financial concerns and developments.
• Contribute to Departmental and Divisional cost improvement programmes.
• Utilise Trust resources in a responsible manner.
Responsibility for Human Resources
• With service matron / DDON /DON, participate in regular skill mix reviews ensuring the established figures meet the needs of the dermatology service.
• To participate in workforce planning to meet service development and policy change.
• To appraise the nurse practitioners / clinical nurse specialists in dermatology and support their
professional development.
• To have a key responsibility for dermatology clinical teaching and staff development of peers, other
health professionals within the clinical area, across the Trust and outside the organisation.
• To develop formal links through partnerships with local universities and relevant professional bodies.
• To assist in the local and national recruitment of staff as a clinical expert panel member.
• To lead relevant departmental, nursing, Trust, and regional meetings.
• To provide clinical supervision to other staff and engage in own supervision.
This advert closes on Thursday 20 Nov 2025
We are looking for an Dermatology Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our team! We are recruiting to a 37.5 hour post, working Monday - Friday (part time hours, will be considered).
The role of the Advanced Clinical Practitioner is to work across professional boundaries, undertaking a variety of clinical duties, within the context of the clinical team and to work within Dermatology. The Advanced Practitioner is required to work as an autonomous clinical professional. Within the multi-disciplinary team, the Advanced Practitioner will support the provision of high-quality patient centred health care. To identify, assess, diagnose and treat adults with various Dermatological conditions.
While this position is advertised as a Band 8a role, applicants who do not currently hold an MSc in Advanced Practice or equivalent qualification may be considered for a Band 7 to Band 8a development opportunity. In such cases, the role would begin as a temporary Band 7 post, with progression to a permanent Band 8a upon successful completion of the MSc qualification. This development pathway would be offered as a fixed-term contract for two years. If you are an internal candidate or employed by another NHS Trust, secondment approval from your current line manager would be required. Please ensure approval is obtained prior to applying as it will be a condition of any offer made.
Please note that this vacancy may close early.
Depending on your knowledge, skills, and experience, you will be a key member of the Dermatology Outpatient Team, providing expert clinical advice to support accurate clinical judgement in the diagnosis, ongoing assessment, decision-making, treatment, and management of dermatology patients within the setting. You will lead the clinical development of the dermatology service in partnership with the Consultant team, contributing expertise in clinical governance and supporting the educational growth of colleagues. Advanced Practice in dermatology is delivered by experienced, registered healthcare practitioners. It involves a high degree of autonomy and complex decision-making, underpinned by a master’s level qualification or equivalent that encompasses the four pillars: clinical practice, leadership and management, education, and research. This includes demonstrating core capabilities and clinical competence specific to dermatology. The post holder will proactively advance the role by applying lessons learned from both the educational programme and practical clinical experience. The aim is to improve patient outcomes by enhancing access to dermatology services.
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that ‘happy staff, makes for happy patients’. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement, and living our values ‘the WWL Way’.
WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.
At WWL we value the benefits a rich and diverse workforce brings to our community and therefore welcome applications from all sections of society.
Key results from the job holder
·Practice at an advanced level of professional autonomy and accountability that is within national guidelines, Trust policies and NMC Codes of Conduct.
· To independently receive and make referrals and lead the management of own caseload for dermatology patient treatment, diagnosis and follow up across health care settings.
·To utilise advanced clinical reasoning skills and evidence-based knowledge in the management of patients with complex presentations and to be clinically competent to utilise skills and knowledge in a variety of clinical settings.
·To make independent clinical decisions and initiate investigations, care/treatment, and technological intervention within an agreed framework.
· To direct and use the results of specialist investigations to assist formulation of diagnosis and plan patient management from a range of interventions.
· To oversee and supervise others in delivery of nurse led clinics applicable to the post and specialty.
· Develop and conduct skilled intervention within a skin disease caseload, addressing issues such as skin assessment, treatment and care, co-morbidities, education within an agreed framework.
· To maintain up to date, client records in accordance with service policy and to contribute to maintaining minimum dataset.
• To monitor, evaluate and review dermatology nursing practice and to modify approaches to clinical care as necessary.
• To take a leadership role in the development of clinical expertise in dermatology nursing enabling nurses to develop advanced assessment, decision-making and prescribing skills.
• To assist in developing nurse-led dermatology care in collaboration with medical and multidisciplinary colleagues.
• To be an authoritative expert assessor/advisor on the management, psychological /spiritual/ social /practical and ethical needs of dermatology patients and to work in partnership with a range of
health professionals to improve skills in these areas.
• To work in close collaboration with dermatology lead consultant colleagues locally, nationally, and internationally.
• To work in collaboration with clinical teams/general management, to ensure there is a define pathway of care for general dermatology patients, facilitating timely care and treatment of patients.
• To utilise expert re-assessment to ensure that the management of planned interventions with other MDT members is maintained via the development of a systematic process of follow-up patients across the Trust and wider health care system.
• Engage with appropriate agencies as a nursing leader in the development of innovative nursing practice and initiatives.
• Enhance dermatology as a nursing specialty within the Trust.
• Develop this pioneering role to strengthen nursing leadership.
• Share knowledge and expertise, acting as an expert resource to others within and outside the organisation.
• Understand national and international standards and advise on shaping of services to meet local need.
• Set local standards promoting best practice, utilising leadership and change management skills.
• Act as a role model and advisor for staff within the Trust and the wider arena as appropriate i.e. primary care/other Trusts/national meetings
Planning and Organisational Duties
• To lead in the implementation of dermatology nursing strategy across the Trust incorporating national and international standards into local practice.
• To inform and influence local management teams to ensure that the service responds to relevant
dermatology national initiatives and directives (e.g. NICE, IOG, Peer Review).
• To work in partnership with the team and other areas in the Trust on the strategic and operational
planning of the dermatology service and to be responsible for the developments of nursing practice.
• To create, develop and implement guidelines and protocols of care relevant to medical dermatology in partnership with local/national /international agencies.
• To contribute to and influence the national dermatology policy agenda
• To provide expert input to the Trust’s quality strategy by expressing the needs of the patient via a whole system approach rather than a unilateral professional view.
• To develop innovative models of dermatology service delivery, challenging organisational and professional boundaries.
• To develop innovations between the Trust and other agencies to ensure equity and access to the dermatology service.
• To initiate and respond to dermatology user feedback by ongoing evaluation and identification of
emerging trends, leading service development and redesign.
• To lead and interpret clinical policy change as it relates to dermatology and provide expert recommendations to managers, the Trust, local and national policy working parties
• To be responsible for the maintenance of accurate written records.
• To identify appropriate outcome measures and service impact measures, which evaluate accurately patient response and service development needs.
• To maintain accurate statistical information in dermatology using databases as necessary to inform management team and drive audit programme.
• To maintain accurate statistical information in dermatology using databases as necessary to inform management team and drive audit programme.
• To flexibly manage responsibility for own complex clinical caseload, Trust and external teaching/lecturing. To be research active and contribute to service development and quality assurance.
• In collaboration with management and external agencies, to identify clinically focused research priorities.
• To use excellent prioritising and time management skills to meet the unpredictable and conflicting needs of the service.
• To develop own managerial and administrative functions in conjunction with role developments.
• To work in a stressful environment with intense concentration for periods of up to 40 minutes at a time throughout the day.
Communications and Key Working Relationships
• To demonstrate an expert ability to communicate highly complex and sensitive information to patients, carers, and other staff, where there may be barriers to communication or may include information
about long-term/permanent disabilities. This must be done whilst always ensuring confidentiality and ensuring sensitivity to the audience’s level of understanding and prior knowledge.
• To be able to motivate and persuade others through advanced communication skills, using written and electronic information where needed.
• To effectively articulate their expert perspective on a patient’s condition with colleagues when various management options are available.
• To diffuse potentially hostile and antagonistic situations with staff, patients, and relatives, using highly developed negotiation and interpersonal skills.
• To make reasonable efforts to resolve verbal complaints and to be well versed with the Trust’s formal complaints procedure.
• Contribute to clinical governance arrangements by providing expert input and securing quality improvement, including influencing other disciplines, to help deliver quality services.
• Promote best practice, utilising local and regional benchmarking groups for the generation and promotion of standards and clinical guidelines
• To carry out daily assessments and treatments of patients with moderate intense physical effort involved.
• To comply with the Trust’s Manual Handling Policy and local therapeutic handing guidelines
• To work in an environment where the work patterns are disrupted by frequent demands from patients,
clinical staff, students and administrative support staff and any emergency arising.
• To support staff when indicated in the management of challenging situations.
• To manage patients where their clinical condition may lead to anxiety and aggressive behaviour.
• To sensitively explain the results of investigations including the possible need for surgery, poor prognosis and occasionally the existence of possibly fatal pathology.
• To work in a stressful environment with intense concentration for periods of up to 40 minutes at a time throughout the day.
• To cope with occasional exposure to unpleasant working conditions (i.e. body fluids, incontinence, verbal abuse act).
Responsibility for Financial
• To propose the use of new equipment relevant to dermatology, which will develop practice, and to appraise and evaluate its’ use in the clinical setting demonstrating the need for the purchase of physical assets.
• Contribute to business planning process for dermatology, initiating bids for resources where appropriate.
• Support the Dermatology Team in identifying financial concerns and developments.
• Contribute to Departmental and Divisional cost improvement programmes.
• Utilise Trust resources in a responsible manner.
Responsibility for Human Resources
• With service matron / DDON /DON, participate in regular skill mix reviews ensuring the established figures meet the needs of the dermatology service.
• To participate in workforce planning to meet service development and policy change.
• To appraise the nurse practitioners / clinical nurse specialists in dermatology and support their
professional development.
• To have a key responsibility for dermatology clinical teaching and staff development of peers, other
health professionals within the clinical area, across the Trust and outside the organisation.
• To develop formal links through partnerships with local universities and relevant professional bodies.
• To assist in the local and national recruitment of staff as a clinical expert panel member.
• To lead relevant departmental, nursing, Trust, and regional meetings.
• To provide clinical supervision to other staff and engage in own supervision.
This advert closes on Thursday 20 Nov 2025