Job summary

The post holder will act as a keyworker for the patients diagnosed with skin cancer. Providing a link between patients and healthcare professionals across primary, secondary and tertiary care and act as an advocate for patients and families. The post holder will continually develop, implement and evaluate the skin cancer service to improve and maintain standards of patient care and promote a seamless service within a multi-disciplinary team framework. Be a clinical expert in skin cancer with excellent communication skills. the role requires ability to work autonomously and independently but within an integrated collaborative team. Ensuring that the user of the service is actively involved in the development of the service and that their recommendations are disseminated to the MDT team.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will act as Keyworker for patients diagnosed with skin cancer providing a link between patients and health care professionals across primary, secondary and tertiary care and act as an advocate for patients/families

The post-holder will continually develop, implement and evaluate the Skin Cancer Service to improve and maintain standards of patient care and promote a seamless service within a multi-professional framework

Be a clinical expert in skin cancer with excellent communication skills. The role requires the ability to work autonomously and independently but within an integrated collaborative team

Ensure that the users of the service are actively involved in the development of the service and that their recommendations are disseminated to the MDT and the Cancer Management Team ensuring appropriate actions are devised

Establish follow up nurse led clinics for newly diagnosed patients and skin cancer patients undergoing treatment

Ensure their role reflects the core components of the clinical nurse specialist which includes clinical practice, management, organisation, education, research and audit, taking into account the national cancer agenda and its impact on service delivery.

About us

We're an organisation that is getting better and better. We were the most improved Trust in England for A&E performance in 2023/24; we're no longer in special measures; and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal. Our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and that our patients are happy with.

Many of our 8,000 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and the majority are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. More than 400 of them are on apprenticeship programmes and we're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

We operate from two main sites - King George Hospital (KGH) in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two of the busiest emergency departments in London - more than 300,000 people visited our A&Es in 2023.

Patients across north east London are benefitting from two new state of the art theatres at KGH and our Community Diagnostic Centres at Barking Community Hospital and St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub will significantly increase the number of scans that can be carried out.

We're looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record next year. This will mean the records of any patient visiting one of the seven hospitals run by BHRUT and Barts Health will be accessible to the clinical teams. It'll make things easier for staff and will be better for patients.