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Band 7 Skin Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist

On-site in Birmingham·Part-time·Added today (last checked 13 Oct)

University Hospitals Birmingham

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Overview

Salary: £49,387 - £56,515 a year
About £3,260 - £3,610 a month after tax.
Contract: Part-time
Closing date: Apply by Monday 26 October

Skills

The role

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Skin Cancer CNS team.

As the regional centre for skin cancer, we provide support to patients from across the Midlands who have been diagnosed with a skin cancer, including melanoma, non-mealnoma and rare skin cancers.

The CNS role involves providing support and information to patients; ensuring they are kept informed of changes and are seen at appropriate points in their pathway. It involves liaison with the patient, family members, and with a variety of care providers. The weekly multi-disciplinary meeting is an opportunity to put forward the patient's voice as well as an excellent learning environment.

The role is varied, demanding, yet satisfying. The ideal candidate would already be working at Band 6 or above, have relevant experience of working with skin cancer patients and be able to work autonomously and collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality, evidence-based care, ensuring patients receive timely assessment, treatment, education and ongoing support throughout their cancer journey.

Main duties of the job

The role encompasses caring for patients throughout their skin cancer journey and will include supporting them through diagnosis, primary treatment, recurrence/metastatic disease and palliative treatment. The post holder will work closely with the Dermatology, Plastic Surgery and Oncology teams to provide a seamless pathway for the patient across the services.

The post holder will provide expert, autonomous specialist care to patients with complex needs. This will include holistic needs assessments, symptom management advice, supporting patients and families through uncertainty, and coordinating care across the multidisciplinary team, external trusts and community services.

The role requires excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and the ability to discuss highly sensitive matters with patients and relatives to provide a high quality of care.

The post holder is responsible for contributing / leading the on-going development of clinical practice, standards of care within the service including the development of policies, procedures, protocols and guidelines. They will undertake service developments in collaboration with multidisciplinary colleagues.

About us

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

*Registered Adult Nurse on the NMC Register
*Evidence of post registration CPD / Post registration qualification in (appropriate area of speciality or professional knowledge supplemented by specialist experience and short courses to degree / masters level equivalent FHEQ Level 6 /7
*Recognised mentorship course

Desirable

*Advanced health assessment module/ willingness to undertake - where applicable to the role
*Non -- Medical Prescriber/ willingness to undertake - where applicable to the role

Experience

Essential

*Evidence and ability to revalidate as required by the NMC
*Significant years post registration experience as a Clinical Nurse Specialist at B6 or above in Dermatology/Oncology
*Extensive experience of working autonomously at a specialist level
*Evidence of achievements and career development in current post and of on-going professional development/ competence.
*Demonstrate expert knowledge underpinned by theory and CPD relevant to speciality.
*Experience and enthusiasm for developing educational programmes and teaching / assessing and supervising others in a clinical setting.
*Working in a multi-disciplinary and cross agency work environment.
*Experience of patient service user advocacy role
*Can demonstrate expert nursing knowledge with an ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate specialist care delivered to patients and give advice and information to patients / relatives/ care staff
*Awareness of current relevant NHS policy context relating to the speciality
*Has understanding / experience of the principles of Safeguarding
*Knowledge of corporate and clinical governance

Desirable

*Experience of delivering change management both personally and as a facilitator
*Experience in service development Awareness of current research related to the speciality
*Awareness of current research related to the speciality

Additional Criteria

Essential

*Ability to explain the requirement to balance clinical caseload
*Ability to communicate with a wide range of health care professionals, on a variety of complex and sensitive issues which require persuasive and empathetic skills.
*Extensive experience of working autonomously at a specialist level and to manage / prioritise own workload, supervise / appraise and asses junior staff
*Competent in a range of clinical skills and expanded practices relevant to the scope of practice required Ability to work under pressure across competing priorities
*Ability to undertake clinical audit, analyse information and develop robust measurable action plans to support improvement / change
*Evidence of ability to compile reports and documents for internal / external communication
*Knowledge of current evidence-based practice and ability to apply to service and policy development
*Ability to adapt behaviour to changing circumstances
*Positive and enthusiastic attitude
*Ability to communicate articulately and motivate others
* Evidence of flexible and innovative approach to service delivery and development
*Ability to work a varied shift pattern where required
*Ability to act on own initiative

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).