Dermatology Lead Nurse / ACP

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Dermatology Lead Nurse / ACP

The closing date is 05 October 2025

Are you an experienced and enthusiastic Nurse with significant knowledge and skills in Dermatology, and looking for a new challenge to lead our Dermatology Department at UHD?

We are seeking applications for a Band 8a Dermatology Lead Nurse who is a qualified ACP (this is not a trainee post) on a permanent contract.

This role requires an active Professional registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)

Base Location: Cross site working between Poole Hospital and Christchurch Hospital

Interview Date: TBC

Main duties of the job

This post offers the opportunity to deliver operational management to a multi-disciplinary team, service development, and clinical leadership whilst maintaining a clinical role.

This is an exciting time within the Dermatology Department, with opportunities for service development as part of UHD Transformation.

The post holder will:

• Cross site work between Poole Hospital and Christchurch Hospital.
• Be the operational line manager for members of the Dermatology Teams team.
• Drive service improvement, innovation and staff skill and knowledge acquisition for the benefit of patients within the pathway.
• Seek opportunities to continuously develop the service to always ensure the delivery of safe, patient-centred care.

About us

Our values define who we are as . They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues.

UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.

This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have about this at interview.

It is planned that Dermatology Department will continue to have services on both the Poole and Christchurch sites.

Job responsibilities

For a more detailed job description and person specification, please refer to the documents attached to this advert.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Professional registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
• Recognised teaching of mentoring qualification
• Masters level Advanced Clinical Practice/Equivalent Masters
• Non-medical prescriber
• Budget Management
• Recognition as Advanced Practitioner by the National Centre for Advancing Practice

Experience

• Demonstrable experience of working independently at a Band 7 Clinical role within relevant specialty; minimum of 3 years experience.
• Experience of leading a team and working in partnership with all levels of staff
• Service and practice development and managing change
• Experience in education, mentoring, audit
• Experience of leading & developing people
• Publication/conference experience
• Team leader

Knowledge and Technical Skills

• Demonstrable theoretical and practical knowledge of dermatology specialty common presentations.
• Ability to work unsupervised and on own initiative and as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Clinical reasoning, problem-solving and decision-making skills at an advanced level
• Demonstrable ability to work in a busy environment and resilience when the service is under pressure.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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