Senior Dermatology Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Hours / week
- 37.5
- Posted
- 18/09/2026
- Closes
- 27/09/2026
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Role summary
This is a full-time permanent Band 6 Senior Dermatology Nurse role at Ormskirk Hospital. The post involves providing specialised nursing care, leading nurse-led clinics, and supporting patients with various dermatological conditions and treatments. The successful candidate will act as a clinical role model, deputise for the Senior Sister, and take an active role in minor operation theatres, including scrub nursing. Excellent communication and leadership skills are essential for liaising with the multidisciplinary team and supporting junior staff.
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse
- Current NMC registration with no restrictions to practice
- Educated to Degree level, or working towards
- In date with NMC Revalidation
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Mentorship - completion of in house practice assessors workshop for student nurses.
- Specialist training relevant to role including Phototherapy Course, PDT and Patch Testing Course and yearly updates.
Desirable criteria
- Skin surgery course
- Knowledge & Experience
- Able to work as part of a team
- Evidence of leadership / management
- Excellent communication skills
- Experience working in a Dermatology setting
- Ability to prioritise / organise workload
- Able to demonstrate a high level of clinical expertise
- Awareness of current key issues in relation to NHS/TRUST
- Evidence of continued progression
- Research awareness and a commitment to evidence-based practice
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Experience of service improvement and implementation
- Experience of undertaking audit
- Act as clinical/professional role model
- Ability to organise/manage and prioritise own workload effectively
- Able to make decisions for a defined patient group
- Supervise work of others clinical supervision of staff, students and provide training of others.
- Venepuncture competency
- Other
- Frequently required to exert light physical effort for several periods at a time (eg: when scrubbed in theatre)
- Able to assist patients with moving and handling procedures
- Decision making and time management
- Continuous concentration when dealing with difficult situations
- Ability to learn new skills with view to develop role
- Ability to provide care within the healthcare environment within own professional capabilities in times of unpredictable crisis (eg: COVID-19)
- Occasional requirement to calmly and effectively deal with complaints and resolve confrontational situations
- Able to deal with emotional or distressing situations for example patients receiving bad news in diagnosis clinic
- Provide support to other members of the team if appropriate
- Registered Nurse
- Current NMC registration with no restrictions to practice
- Educated to Degree level, or working towards
- In date with NMC Revalidation
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Mentorship - completion of in house practice assessors workshop for student nurses.
- Specialist training relevant to role including Phototherapy Course, PDT and Patch Testing Course and yearly updates.
- Skin surgery course
- Knowledge & Experience
- Able to work as part of a team
- Evidence of leadership / management
- Excellent communication skills
- Experience working in a Dermatology setting
- Ability to prioritise / organise workload
- Able to demonstrate a high level of clinical expertise
- Awareness of current key issues in relation to NHS/TRUST
- Evidence of continued progression
- Research awareness and a commitment to evidence-based practice
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Experience of service improvement and implementation
- Experience of undertaking audit
- Act as clinical/professional role model
- Ability to organise/manage and prioritise own workload effectively
- Able to make decisions for a defined patient group
- Supervise work of others clinical supervision of staff, students and provide training of others.
- Venepuncture competency
- Other
- Frequently required to exert light physical effort for several periods at a time (eg: when scrubbed in theatre)
- Able to assist patients with moving and handling procedures
- Decision making and time management
- Continuous concentration when dealing with difficult situations
- Ability to learn new skills with view to develop role
- Ability to provide care within the healthcare environment within own professional capabilities in times of unpredictable crisis (eg: COVID-19)
- Occasional requirement to calmly and effectively deal with complaints and resolve confrontational situations
- Able to deal with emotional or distressing situations for example patients receiving bad news in diagnosis clinic
- Provide support to other members of the team if appropriate
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Senior Dermatology Nurse
The closing date is 27 September 2026
Job summary
Ormskirk Hospital Dermatology Department are seeking to employ a permanent band 6 Senior Dermatology Nurse.
The post is for full time 37.5 hours and will incorporate a combination of clinical and organisational duties to ensure safe and excellent care in the Dermatology Department.
Excellent communication skills are essential, as the post holder will be required to liaise with the vast Dermatology MDT, including clinical and non-clinical staff. In addition to this, the successful applicant will be required to support the Skin Cancer Specialist Nurses in the care of patients with a Cancer diagnosis, using advanced communication skills to support them in their care.
We are seeking an autonomous practitioner, with proven experience of caring for patients with Dermatology conditions and treatments such as phototherapy UVA/UVB treatments, patch testing, photodynamic therapy and treatment counselling and eczema education.
The Department hosts 2 Minor Operation Theatres. The successful applicant will take an active role in the care of patients attending clinic for these procedures, acting as the Scrub Nurse in theatre and using their clinical expertise to review patients returning with any post procedure issues.
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