Job overview
The successful applicant will work primarily within the 2 week wait skin cancer pathway in Plastic Surgery.
The practitioner role is to provide independent advanced clinical assessment and management of patients from referral to discharge, diagnosis and beyond. This role involves working independently of medical staff or with remote assistance.
This post will include triage of skin referrals from General Practitioners (GPs), communication directly with GPs, outpatients’ clinics for new referrals, diagnosis clinics and aftercare or follow up, treatment room and minor surgical sessions.
This post holder will also support the team of clinical nurse specialists, assist with ward rounds and complex wound support.
The practitioner will provide senior clinical and non-clinical leadership to the team.
Main duties of the job
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
