Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to join and be an integral member of a friendly and supportive multi-disciplinary specialist team working alongside consultants, nurses, pharmacists, health care assistance and admin and operational staff to provide safe, effective and efficient care for patients.

The post is for 30 hours 0.8WTE. To be discussed with the successful applicant, can be worked across either 4 or 5 days and as the unit manager, you will hold both clinical and operational responsibility over a busy dermatology outpatient department comprising of consultants, specialty doctors, GPwSI, nurses, health care assistants, pharmacist, cancer nurse specialist, admin and operational colleagues. 

The dermatology services provides suspected cancer and routine outpatient clinics, phototherapy, a biologics service and minor surgery. 

Main duties of the job

Further details of the post are available within the attached job description and person specification.

• Staff management including rosters, sickness, personal development plans, appraisals, disciplinaries and training
• The post holder needs to be a v3000 non-medical prescriber in order to autonomously run routine follow-up clinics for specific conditions such as eczema, acne and mild psoriasis.  

The dermatology department implemented a biologics service in the summer of 2025. Dermatology supports the Trust to be the 3rd highest performing hospitals with GM for cancer performance. 

Working for our organisation

Bolton is a thriving and progressively minded town, based just off the M61, 20 minutes from the centre of Manchester and with excellent transport links to the rest of the North West and further afield e.g. Lake District and Yorkshire Dales.

We have a truly unique family feel across the Trust and this was reflected in the last national Staff Survey results which showed that our staff feel that Bolton NHS FT is the best place to work in Greater Manchester; we are so proud that they feel this way.

Royal Bolton Hospital has a catchment population of approximately 300,000 people. Operationally we are rated overall 'Good' by the CQC.

Further details of the post are available within the attached job description and person specification.

The vision of this Trust is to be recognised by the people of Bolton and beyond as an excellent provider of health and care services and a great place to work. We are striving to attract, recruit and retain high calibre skilled staff which reflect our communities. We are an inclusive employer who trains and develops our staff in a positive learning environment. We aim to be consciously inclusive and therefore applications from all sectors of the community are welcomed. We would particularly encourage candidates from a black and minority ethnic (BAME) background and candidates with health conditions or impairments.