An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and experienced nurse to join the Dermatology and Cancer Services team as a Macmillan Skin Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS). This is a rewarding and autonomous role supporting patients from the point of suspicion of cancer throughout their pathway. You will act as a key worker, ensuring patients receive personalised, high-quality care, expert advice and emotional support while contributing to service improvement.
The post holder will be a core member of cancer multidisciplinary team where patients with skin cancer are discussed. Be responsible for the provision of high quality, patient centred care, ensuring those living with a skin cancer have access to expert information, advice and support from the point of suspicion of cancer.
The post holder will act as Key Worker, co-ordinating the patients’ pathway from the point of suspicion of cancer liaising with members of the multidisciplinary team ,other healthcare professionals across primary and secondary care and the voluntary sector to ensure a seamless service for patients and their families.
Responsible for the implementation of personalised care and support for those living with skin cancer in line with National directives , including the implementation of remote monitoring
The post holder will lead and participate in health promotion initiatives related to the prevention of skin cancer.
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University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN) brings together Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust. As a group, we are committed to improving services for our communities through collaboration, modernising care delivery and striving for excellence. Working together enables us to share expertise, strengthen services and create greater opportunities, and there may be a requirement to work across sites depending on service needs.
Our Excellence Values are Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Integrity and Courage. UHN welcomes applications from all backgrounds and is committed to an inclusive working environment. We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and hold the Gold Award under the Employer Recognition Scheme. Candidates who identify as members of the Armed Forces community and meet the essential criteria will be guaranteed an interview.
Supporting Patient Excellence
Ensure everyone diagnosed with a Skin cancer receives a supported conversation about their needs, repeated as their needs change. To include Melanoma and High Risk SCC patients (as per the Nice Guidance)
To undertake a comprehensive holistic assessment of patient’s needs (HNA) at key stages during the illness experience from the point of suspicion of cancer in line with National Directives using a recognised tool that can electronically record the patient’s/carers expressed needs.
To develop a comprehensive care and support plan in consultation with the patient/family, ensuring a written copy is shared with the patient.
To enable patients/carers to navigate to supportive services through referrals and/or sign posting to meet their individual range of needs.
To attend weekly multidisciplinary team meetings and contribute to the discussion and patient assessment/care planning decisions. This is to include specialist meetings where the CNS represents the patient.
To identify patients to be added to multidisciplinary meetings and complete proformas to add patients to specialist meetings, inform the consultants of the outcomes of these meetings.
To act on scan findings and escalate findings to consultants.
To run diagnosis clinics for new melanoma patients.
To support skin cancer patients during significant consultations in Head and Neck, Plastics, and radiotherapy department .
