Skin Oncology - Clinical Nurse Specialist

Skin Oncology - Clinical Nurse Specialist NHS AfC:
Band 7

Main area Cancer Services Grade NHS AfC:
Band 7 Contract 12 months (fixed term) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (mon-fri) Job  

Site Lister Hospital Town Stevenage Salary £47,810 - £54,710 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 09/03/2026 23:59

Here at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities

Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service

Our values - We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do. Our values are:

Include
We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.

Respect
We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.

Improve
We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.

We are looking to recruit a Skin Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

The CNS will be motivated, proactive and an excellent communicator who works well within a team, whilst also autonomously managing their own case load.

You will be responsible for the day to day delivery of Skin cancer care services within the trust as agreed with the Lead Nurse, in accordance of the Trust and national guidance.

You will work with patients being investigated and having a confirmed diagnosis of Skin cancer, ensuring that national targets are meet in the delivery of the care.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values:

Include,Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

The successful candidate will liaise with all appropriate members of multi-disciplinary team and ensure a seamless service between acute and primary care services.

You will be effective at communicating sensitive, condition-related information to patients and relatives, requiring high levels of empathy and reassurance. This includes highly complex information that needs to be conveyed to non-clinical people (e.g family).

The post holder will ensure the provision of appropriate verbal and written patient information, thus empowering the patient to make informed decisions.

You will maintain your own knowledge, competence and skills through regular clinical supervision, appraisal, personal development plans and appropriate training programmes.

You will also be expected to work in partnership with other professional, health and social care organisations, trade union and voluntary sector organisations to embed these principles.

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but…