Skin Oncology - Clinical Nurse Specialist in Stevenage

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 ref: 361-7647048

Employer: East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

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 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 about 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.

Job overview: 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 with 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 met in the delivery of the care.

Main duties of the job: The successful candidate will liaise with all appropriate members of the 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.

Working for our organisation: 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities: Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Person specification:

• Registered nurse education to Degree level or willingness to undertake
• Evidence of continuous professional development
• Advanced communication skills/counselling qualification or willingness to undertake
• Advanced clinical assessment skills
• Teaching qualification
• Research Module
• Master’s Degree

• Significant relevant experience in the Specialty and ability to demonstrate expert nursing skills
• Accept personal accountability for own practice
• Experience of formal/informal teaching
• Experience of initiating change
• Understanding evidence‑based practice
• Experience of Clinical Governance
• Understanding of patient pathways and its complexities and how to support patients through this

• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Capable of working as an integral member of a small team
• Flexible and adaptable to changing situations due to workload and colleague’s needs
• Ability to undertake teaching of staff and patients
• Ability to work unsupervised and manage own workload; effective time‑management
• Effective interpersonal skills
• Ability to lead developments in practice
• Commitment to multi‑disciplinary working
• Demonstrate analytical and judgemental skills
• Ability to quickly appraise situation and act accordingly
• Advanced communication skills

• Understanding of evidence based practice
• Understanding of Clinical Governance
• Experience and Knowledge of specialist field

When you apply: Please note we do not offer visa sponsorship for roles unless clearly stated in our adverts. This means even if you have the right to work currently but will require a new sponsorship to work for our Trust your application will not be considered. Vacancies may close earlier than the advertised closing date where a high volume of applications are received. We therefore encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to avoid missing out on the opportunity to join the Trust or develop your career with us. While we recognise that AI can support in drafting an application, you are encouraged to clearly demonstrate your personal skills, experience and behaviours that align with the role, and this is usually best done in your own words. We reserve the right to review all applications for the use of AI tools and where this is inconsistent with our values and standards of behaviour your application may be rejected. All correspondence relating to vacancies will be via the e‑mail address you have provided on your application form. Some servers automatically send e‑mails to your junk mail so please check as well as your inbox.

Secondments/Fixed term: Where a vacancy is advertised as a temporary position, the duration will be specified in the advert. If the vacancy becomes permanent towards the end of the specified duration, the successful applicant may not be required to re‑apply and can be slotted into the role on a permanent basis if appropriate. If you are an internal applicant applying for a temporary working arrangement, please see the attached notes on secondments.

Committed to our Community: East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for all job applicants, staff, patients and the wider community. We want to create a workforce which represents the communities we serve. We are on a journey to become a more inclusive organisation and we welcome applications from everyone regardless of their background. In particular we encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, and candidates from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds who are currently under‑represented in various parts of our workforce. We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to support flexible working for our staff wherever possible and all our employees are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working. We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and achieved our status in 2019. We will remove barriers that prospective candidates might face at any stage of our recruitment process. If you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact us by emailing resourcing.enh-tr@nhs.net.

We are also proud to support our UK armed forces by supporting Reservists, Cadet Instructors, Veterans and military spouses/partners into employment and offering supportive policies that value their contribution to the community and to our Trust. We are committed to being a carer‑friendly environment, addressing the complex needs of families with caring responsibilities. In partnership with Carers in Hertfordshire, all our working carers have access to support from recruitment. We are also a member of Carers UK, providing resources to make balancing work and caring easier.

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Employer certification / accreditation badges: You must have appropriate UK professional registration. The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Name: Joseph R Mazivanhanga

Job title: Lead Skin Oncology - Clinical Nurse Specialist

Email address: joseph.mazivanhanga@nhs.net

Telephone number: 07990566198