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Job overview

The Nurse Consultant will practice autonomously at an advanced level to promote clinical pathways across the medical and general Dermatology service. This is a key post within a specialist area and will have a clear role in defining, shaping and developing the Dermatology cancer service across all sites in the Trust including community settings.

The role will be to provide system leadership and to support Clinical Nurse specialists to realise their full potential as autonomous practitioners to ensure seamless delivery of patient care ensuring high quality clinical outcomes.

Main duties of the job

The role will be to provide system leadership and to support Clinical Nurse specialists to realise their full potential as autonomous practitioners to ensure seamless delivery of patient care ensuring high quality clinical outcomes.The post holder will act as an innovator, motivator, key change agent and role model in order to support and influence clinical pathway redesign within Dermatology services including quality improvement, implementation of national initiatives, service reconfiguration and new digitally enabled models of care.The post holder will work closely with the Divisional Clinical Director, Deputy Director of Nursing, Senior Operations Manager, Head of Nursing, Senior Matron, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Clinical Lead Nurses, patients and wider MDT teams to develop a Dermatology Service responsive to the needs of patients and staff. The role blends a significant proportion of direct, higher level clinical care with education, research and management activities.

The post holder will have an educational commitment to ensure Dermatology clinical pathways and practices are enveloped in all staff training programmes.

Working for our organisation

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester.  Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.