Cancer Nurse Specialist

Join our fantastic Dermatology team as a Skin Cancer Nurse Specialist within our North and North East Lincolnshire service. This is an exciting new post within our growing dermatology service. With incidence of skin cancers increasing over the entire country and within our region, we are looking to develop this new post within the service. In line with the British Association of Dermatologists, NICE and the British Dermatological Nursing Group guidelines we are looking for a person who is willing to go the extra mile for their patients.

You will be working closely with our the Surgical Lead Nurse and Dermatology Lead Nurse, along with our MDT Coordinator.

We hold clinics at the Ironstone Medical Centre, Scunthorpe, Cromwell Medical Centre, Grimsby, and Freshney Green Medical Centre, Grimsby. We are all expected to work across all three sites as required.

Our service runs: Monday to Friday
Package DescriptionYou will feel valued as a Cancer Nurse Specialist, within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

£33,706.00 annual salary + group pension and benefits
Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday 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 life’s 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 you’re 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
Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location

Main ResponsibilitiesYour days will be rewarding and fulfilling and some of your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• Attending the weekly Skin MDT meetings

• Meeting patients to discuss their diagnosis and attending appointments with the dermatology consultants for more serious diagnosis

• To provide emotional support to patients throughout their time in our care

• Post operative wound care as required

• Pre-operative assessments as required

A full description of responsibilities can be found in the attached job description.
The Ideal CandidateThe ideal candidate will be NMC registered and have experience of working with cancer patients and is willing to work across all sites. You must be an excellent team player, with written and verbal skills.

You will need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel and have a valid UK driving license and access to a vehicle for work purposes.
About The CompanyWe change lives by transforming health and care. 

Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's 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.  

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, di-verse range of people who want to join our team. We’re 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 doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.  

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people, and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance, so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and every-one who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.  

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