Skin Cancer - Clinical Nurse Specialist

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Band 7 Skin Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) to join our dynamic nursing team at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the ongoing development of our Skin Cancer service on a 2-year fixed term contract.

As a Skin Cancer CNS, you will play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred care. You will work autonomously in a nurse-led environment, using your specialist knowledge and advanced clinical skills to support patients across all stages of the skin cancer pathway. Working closely with a well-established multidisciplinary team, you will act as a key worker for patients, providing expert assessment, education, psychological support, and care coordination.

You will be responsible for promoting evidence-based practice, leading on service improvement initiatives, and supporting education and training for both patients and staff. The role also includes contributing to audit, data collection, and clinical governance to ensure safe and effective service delivery. This is a fantastic opportunity to enhance your specialist expertise in skin oncology and make a significant impact on patient outcomes within a supportive and forward-thinking team.

If you are passionate about skin cancer care and are ready to advance your career in a challenging yet rewarding specialist role, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job:

• The post holder will manage a defined caseload of patients requiring ongoing monitoring, surveillance, and follow-up care for skin cancer, demonstrating advanced clinical expertise and autonomous decision-making.
• They will deliver high-quality, evidence-based care across all stages of the skin cancer pathway, acting as a key worker and advocate for patients and their families.
• A key responsibility will be providing day-to-day clinical leadership and support to junior members of the Skin Cancer Nursing team, fostering professional development and ensuring the delivery of safe, compassionate, and effective care.
• The post holder will actively contribute to the development and implementation of clinical policies, protocols, and educational resources, promoting continuous service improvement.
• The role will involve leading initiatives to improve patient experience by actively encouraging service user feedback through surveys, audits, and patient forums.
• The post holder will represent the service at local and national meetings, including Cancer Alliance networks, to influence and support the development of skin cancer services in line with best practice and national guidance.
• In addition, they will contribute to data collection, service evaluation, and clinical governance activities to maintain high standards of care and ensure compliance with national targets and Trust objectives.

Working for our organisation:

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too. We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities:

For a detailed description of role and responsibilities please see the attached Job Description and Personal Specification.

Person specification:

Qualifications:

• Essential criteria: Postgraduate qualifications relevant to the specialism e.g. Oncology, dermoscopy, skin lesion recognition, minor surgery. Degree in Nursing, Masters degree (level 7), or equivalent education / professional development in advanced practice or willingness to complete this.
• Desirable criteria: Leadership/management qualification.

Experience:

• Essential criteria: Relevant senior post registration experience in cancer care at band 6. Leadership and management of staff. Ability to work at pace, establish effective working relationships and develop strong team working. Patient education/counselling skills.
• Desirable criteria: Demonstrate involvement in recent research. Experience of working as a clinical expert/leader.

Skills & Knowledge:

• Essential criteria: Understanding of the national cancer agenda and skin cancer guidelines. Ability to serve on project groups and/or committees.
• Desirable criteria: Experience of leading patient involvement/patient feedback initiatives.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities. We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other: Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.