Job summary
Position Title: Dermatology Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) for Skin Cancer - 1 year fixed Term contractFull-time Equivalent: 37.5 hours per weekWorking Hours: 09:00 am - 17:00 pm
The St John's Institute of Dermatology at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust has a long history of providing specialised skin cancer care for patients diagnosed with skin cancer. An exciting opportunity has arisen within our friendly dermatology skin cancer services at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital. We are looking for two experienced and motivated Clinical Nurse Specialist (Band 7) to join our well-established team. This new role involves working with dermatology clinicians to support the new tele dermatology services, alongside face-to-face follow-ups.
The successful candidate will work closely with the team to ensure that patients receive comprehensive support throughout their cancer treatment journey. The role includes involvement in general dermatology and urgent skin clinics.
As a Clinical Nurse Specialist, you will be responsible for supporting patients through their diagnosis and treatment, facilitating their care pathways. You will also act as a key worker for patients and collaborate with the multidisciplinary teams involved in their care. The post holder must have a willingness to work towards a Nurse Prescribing qualification, and completion of a leadership course is essential.
Advert Closing Date: 08th June 2025Proposed Interview Date: 18th June 2025
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for:
- Managing a caseload of patients with a skin cancer diagnosis undergoing treatment, acting as an experienced and autonomous practitioner.
- Managing a caseload of patients requiring teledermatology follow-ups.
- Delivering teaching, mentoring, and assessment, including the supervision of others in the clinical setting.
- Participating in quality improvement initiatives.
- Providing support, education, and advocacy for patients throughout their care journey.
- Delivering patient information and undertaking care planning.
- Providing leadership and driving innovation within the service.
- Providing psychological support to patients, carrying out Holistic Needs Assessments (HNA), and demonstrating knowledge of survivorship initiatives.
- Working in nurse-led clinics and acting as a non-medical prescriber (desirable).
- Coordinating ward rounds and patient reviews.
- Managing and educating patients on dermatology wound care and skincare.
- Adhering to protocols, policies, peer reviews, audits, and clinical governance standards.
About us
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and - as part of King's Health Partners - we are one of England's eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research's biomedical research centres, established with King's College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.
We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be responsible for:
- Autonomous Patient Care: Managing a caseload of patients within the specialty, delivering individualised and personalised direct patient care, while working collaboratively as part of the multidisciplinary team.
- Emergency Assessment and Action: Assessing and recognising emergencies within the specialty, interpreting information, taking appropriate action, and leading others to do the same.
- Patient Advocacy: Acting as an advocate for patients within the department, ensuring a patient-oriented approach to care delivery, and meeting NHS Plan standards and other relevant guidelines.
- High-Quality Care: Ensuring patients receive high-quality clinical care, respecting their customs, religious beliefs, and cultural doctrines.
- Health and Wellbeing: Recognising and avoiding situations that may be detrimental to the health and wellbeing of patients.
- Engagement: Actively engaging service users through facilitating user groups and open days, promoting patient involvement and feedback.
- Coordinating Specialist Services: Coordinating the provision of specialist services to patients both in the hospital and/or community setting, effectively liaising with multidisciplinary colleagues.
- Nurse-Led Clinics: Developing and running nurse-led clinics, coordinating treatment in conjunction with medical staff.
- Clinical Leadership: Directing, supporting, encouraging, and advising clinical teams by providing specialist knowledge and advice in the care of patients within the specialty.
- Patient-Centered Care: Promoting patient-centred care by establishing and maintaining supportive relationships with patients and their families during the assessment, treatment, and aftercare periods.
- Informed Decision-Making: Supporting and enabling patients and carers to make informed decisions about treatment and management options.
- Clinical Excellence: Promoting high-quality clinical care and assisting in the development of the specialist service through the use of evidence-based practice and clinical standards.
- Professional and Clinical Expertise: Providing professional and clinical leadership, acting as a resource for education and clinical expertise in both hospital and community settings.
- Specialist Practice: Demonstrating expert practice and providing highly specialist advice in the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of patient care, including history taking, physical examination, and the request for diagnostic procedures and clinical investigations.
We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees are central to our organisation's success. Our services are focused on delivering the highest quality, safe, and patient-centred care.
For more details, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be responsible for:
- Autonomous Patient Care: Managing a caseload of patients within the specialty, delivering individualised and personalised direct patient care, while working collaboratively as part of the multidisciplinary team.
- Emergency Assessment and Action: Assessing and recognising emergencies within the specialty, interpreting information, taking appropriate action, and leading others to do the same.
- Patient Advocacy: Acting as an advocate for patients within the department, ensuring a patient-oriented approach to care delivery, and meeting NHS Plan standards and other relevant guidelines.
- High-Quality Care: Ensuring patients receive high-quality clinical care, respecting their customs, religious beliefs, and cultural doctrines.
- Health and Wellbeing: Recognising and avoiding situations that may be detrimental to the health and wellbeing of patients.
- Engagement: Actively engaging service users through facilitating user groups and open days, promoting patient involvement and feedback.
- Coordinating Specialist Services: Coordinating the provision of specialist services to patients both in the hospital and/or community setting, effectively liaising with multidisciplinary colleagues.
- Nurse-Led Clinics: Developing and running nurse-led clinics, coordinating treatment in conjunction with medical staff.
- Clinical Leadership: Directing, supporting, encouraging, and advising clinical teams by providing specialist knowledge and advice in the care of patients within the specialty.
- Patient-Centered Care: Promoting patient-centred care by establishing and maintaining supportive relationships with patients and their families during the assessment, treatment, and aftercare periods.
- Informed Decision-Making: Supporting and enabling patients and carers to make informed decisions about treatment and management options.
- Clinical Excellence: Promoting high-quality clinical care and assisting in the development of the specialist service through the use of evidence-based practice and clinical standards.
- Professional and Clinical Expertise: Providing professional and clinical leadership, acting as a resource for education and clinical expertise in both hospital and community settings.
- Specialist Practice: Demonstrating expert practice and providing highly specialist advice in the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of patient care, including history taking, physical examination, and the request for diagnostic procedures and clinical investigations.
We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees are central to our organisation's success. Our services are focused on delivering the highest quality, safe, and patient-centred care.
For more details, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person Specification
Qualification
Essential
- BSC/1st degree (health related) or equivalent qualification/training and experience
- Your professional knowledge acquired at degree level will be supplemented by specialist training, experience and short courses to Masters level equivalent.
- Post registration qualification in appropriate area of speciality or equivalent post qualification experience.
- Leadership course
- Mentorship course
- RN1 or RN Child Registered Nurse on the NMC register. To hold the appropriate level for the area of speciality.
Desirable
- To have or working towards a masters degree
- To have or working towards a non medical physical assessment course
Skills
Essential
- Advanced clinical, managerial and leadership skills in specialty.
- Proven listening / counselling skills with the ability to manage complex situation and appropriately deliver sensitive and difficult outcomes.
- Evidence of teaching skills in particular teaching patients in how to manage their conditions and raise their awareness of their condition.
- Ability to clinically lead & influence staff
- Up to date knowledge of current clinical and professional issues
- Sound knowledge of current issues in the profession and practice of nursing
- Able to use skills of history taking and physical assessment to direct patient care
- Time management and organisation skills
- Ability to conduct & evaluate own projects successfully
- Demonstrate an understanding of: the National agenda for speciality. Knowledge of quality standards & NICE recommendations/NSF
- Knowledge of current clinical & nursing research
- Ability to carry out audit and research
- IT Skills
- Presentation skills
Desirable
- Ability to interpret and analyse complex data and findings
- Undertaken clinical & nursing research
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of working autonomously at a level within the specialist area delivering effective patient focused care.
- Proven evidence of management and leadership skills
- Previous experience of student supervision and clinical education at undergraduate level
- Experience of delivering patient advocacy
- Experience of audit, research & evidence based care- essential
- Experience of delivering change management both personally and as a facilitator
Values & Behaviours
Essential
Person Specification
Qualification
Essential
- BSC/1st degree (health related) or equivalent qualification/training and experience
- Your professional knowledge acquired at degree level will be supplemented by specialist training, experience and short courses to Masters level equivalent.
- Post registration qualification in appropriate area of speciality or equivalent post qualification experience.
- Leadership course
- Mentorship course
- RN1 or RN Child Registered Nurse on the NMC register. To hold the appropriate level for the area of speciality.
Desirable
- To have or working towards a masters degree
- To have or working towards a non medical physical assessment course
Skills
Essential
- Advanced clinical, managerial and leadership skills in specialty.
- Proven listening / counselling skills with the ability to manage complex situation and appropriately deliver sensitive and difficult outcomes.
- Evidence of teaching skills in particular teaching patients in how to manage their conditions and raise their awareness of their condition.
- Ability to clinically lead & influence staff
- Up to date knowledge of current clinical and professional issues
- Sound knowledge of current issues in the profession and practice of nursing
- Able to use skills of history taking and physical assessment to direct patient care
- Time management and organisation skills
- Ability to conduct & evaluate own projects successfully
- Demonstrate an understanding of: the National agenda for speciality. Knowledge of quality standards & NICE recommendations/NSF
- Knowledge of current clinical & nursing research
- Ability to carry out audit and research
- IT Skills
- Presentation skills
Desirable
- Ability to interpret and analyse complex data and findings
- Undertaken clinical & nursing research
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of working autonomously at a level within the specialist area delivering effective patient focused care.
- Proven evidence of management and leadership skills
- Previous experience of student supervision and clinical education at undergraduate level
- Experience of delivering patient advocacy
- Experience of audit, research & evidence based care- essential
- Experience of delivering change management both personally and as a facilitator
Values & Behaviours
Essential
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
