Skin Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist

Job summary
NHS Band 7 Salary: £49,387 - £56,515 per annum
Hours Per Week: 37.5 full time
Contract Type: Permanent
Location Base: St Mary's Hospital, Parkhurst Road, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 5TG

The Band 7 Skin Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist is a highly rewarding role at the heart of the patient cancer journey. As the key worker for patients and families across the Isle of Wight and Portsmouth, you will provide expert clinical support, coordinate care across multiple services, and ensure patients receive compassionate, seamless care from diagnosis through treatment and beyond. Working as a core member of the Skin Cancer MDT, you'll combine advanced clinical practice with leadership, service development, education and research.

Main duties of the job
This is an opportunity to join a collaborative and ambitious cancer service where specialist nurses are valued as leaders and innovators. You'll work closely with consultants, oncology teams and regional cancer centres, helping shape and improve skin cancer services while making a genuine difference to patient outcomes and experiences every day.

About us
The Isle of Wight NHS Trust serves a population of approximately 150,000 residents, making the services we offer variable and personalised with a flexible approach to our service users.

Working for our Trust brings a variety of benefits, including an on-site day nursery, cycle-to-work scheme, discounts at local businesses and gyms, and the opportunity to hire the Trust's beach hut in Ryde. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

The isle of Wight is a unique and stunning gem of the south coast off England, a short ferry journey from Portsmouth and Southampton, with journey times taking from as little as 10 minutes. London can be reached in 90 minutes by rail from Southampton or Portsmouth. The Island offers an amazing coastline with beautiful countryside, year round events, festivals and award winning attractions.

Our 2024-2029 'Working Together, Improving Together' strategy sets out our objectives for the next 5 years, setting the framework for our collaboration to deliver our vision of working together to deliver excellence in care for our patients and communities.

Job responsibilities

• The post holder will be the identified joint lead in the development of nursing practice in their own specialist area, working at an advanced level across the healthcare teams, also as a core member of the Skin Cancer multi-disciplinary team (MDT).
• They post holder will be the identified key worker for patients with skin cancer and their families on the IOW and will co-ordinate island patients care throughout their cancer pathway. The post holder will also act as a resource for all health care professionals caring for patients with Skin Cancer, and work in close collaboration with other cancer specialist nurses in mainland cancer centres, especially Portsmouth Hospital University Trust (PHU).
• The post-holder will work across departmental, directorate and trust boundaries to support the delivery of a seamless patient-centred service.
• The post-holder will provide a comprehensive quality service that demonstrates highly specialised clinical knowledge and expertise for the management of patients with Skin Cancer and their carers/family. Making contact with patients from the time of initial diagnosis to provide holistic practical, psychological and emotional support.

Person Specification
Experience
Essential

• At least 5 years post registration experience, preferably in a Oncology setting.

Desirable

• Experience as a band 6, in an Oncology Setting.

Qualifications
Essential

• Current RN registration with the NMC and any other relevant post registration qualifications.
• BSc Degree in relevant field.

Desirable

• Masters degree and evidence of working towards
• Successful completion of the Non-Medical Prescribing (V300) course, or a demonstrated willingness to work towards and achieve this qualification.
• Significant demonstrable experience within specialty with evidence of professional development.
• Post Reg. qualifications for specialist area
• Leadership development programme
• Teaching qualification /experience with an accredited NMC mentorship course
• Evidence of change management with relevant management/leadership course
• Evidence of developing policy, guidelines and managing resources
• Counselling and research awareness
• Clinical supervision where applicable monthly attendance

Skills and Knowledge
Essential

• Clinically competent.
• Clinical decision-making skills
• Advanced Communication Skills Training
• Effective leadership skills
• Organisational skills and forward planning
• Flexibility
• Able to support development of others
• Coaching and mentoring skills
• Critical appraisal skills
• Strong customer service skills.
• IT literate
• Understanding of the principles and application of effective budgetary management
• Understanding of the principles and application of effective staff / HR management
• Understanding of the theory and application of Clinical Governance.
• Demonstrable experience of effective management and supervision of staff and taking charge of ward /unit

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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.