Breast Care Nurse

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Job summary

An established NHS trust is seeking a dedicated Breast Care Nurse for a 12-month fixed-term contract. This role offers a unique opportunity to gain invaluable experience in breast cancer nursing, working within a supportive multidisciplinary team. The ideal candidate will possess a strong nursing background, particularly with cancer patients, and be eager to learn and develop skills in a specialized environment. Join a dynamic team committed to providing high-quality care and support to women undergoing breast screening. If you're passionate about nursing and making a difference, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of nursing experience required.
• Experience with cancer patients, especially breast cancer.

Responsibilities

• Provide supportive care for women recalled from screening.
• Work alongside a multidisciplinary screening team.

Skills

Nursing experience

Breast cancer care

Patient support

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Education

Degree in Nursing

Advanced Breast Care Course

Job description

Main area National Breast Screening Programme Grade Band 6 Contract 12 months (12 month Fixed Term) Hours

• Full time
• Part time

37.5 hours per week (days-Full & Part time) Job ref 200-7081637-GO-SMB

Employer St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site St Georges University Hospitals Foundation Trust Town Tooting Salary £44,806 - £53,134 pa inc HCAS PRO RATA Salary period Yearly Closing 11/05/2025 23:59 Interview date 04/06/2025

Breast Care Nurse

Band 6

*The pay scales advertised have been confirmed by NHS England, we are awaiting confirmation of when these will be reflected. The new scales can be found here: Pay scales for 2024/25 | NHS Employers

Job overview

Full Time, Breast Care Nurse in Breast Screening – Band 6

12 month fixed term contract.

South West London Breast Screening Service

Would you like the opportunity to gain experience in breast cancer nursing?

If you are you are currently working as an experienced staff nurse with patients who have cancer we have a unique opportunity to join an established team of experienced Breast Care CNSs.

We are looking for a self motivated nurse, who is eager to learn and keen to develop the skills to work both autonomously and as part of a specialist multidisciplinary team.

This is ideally a full time post (although part time considered for the right candidate) for a 12 month fixed term contract. Secondments considered.

If you are interested in the role and would like to know more please email or telephone Claire Bailey, Lead CNS for Breast Screening on 020 8725 2726 or email [e-mail] .

Main duties of the job

***Please refer to attached job description and person specification for full job main duties:***

To provide a continuing supportive service within the unit and facilitate optimum health care for those who have, or fear they may have breast cancer. After a period of training and supervision the post holder will be responsible for the delivery ofsupportive care to women recalled from screening. Both in person in clinic, during the delivery of diagnostic tests and results and also offering further support by telephone.

The post holder will work alongside members of the multidisciplinary screening team.

Working for our organisation

St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust hosts SWLBSS, which is one of six breast screening services in London and serves a population of over 190,000 women, providing screening with mammography for women aged 50 to their 71st birthday every 3 years. SWLBSS invites over 70,000 women every year for breast screening and diagnoses over 400 cancers per year.

SWLBSS is co-located with the symptomatic breast service which together form the Breast Services Care Group based in The Rose Centre on Perimeter Road at St Georges University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

The service is made up of a supportive multidisciplinary team focused on delivering high quality breast cancer diagnostics. The CNS team provide individualised care, information and support for women who have or fear they may have breast cancer.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

***Please refer to attached job description and person specification for full job main duties:***

The post holder will undertake appropriate training with the necessary supervision, to provide specialist-nursing interventions; ensuring specific needs of individual women are addressed.
Provide telephone support for highly anxious women recalled from screening offering the appropriate information and psychological support.

Person specification

• 5 years of nursing experience minimum
• Experience of working with patients with cancer
• Experience of working with Breast Cancer Patients
• Experience of working in Cancer Out Patients
• Degree or equivalent in Nursing related field
• advanced breast Care Course

We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the trust – being excellent, kind, responsible and respectful – and behave in a way that reflects these. More information on the vision and values of St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is attached below.

Please note that this vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient applicants are received. Please check your email regularly as all candidates shortlisted for interview will be contacted and informed by email.

If you are appointed to the post, as part of your pre-employment check we will be required to verify your identity. The document/s you present for this purpose will be checked for their authenticity by scanning all known security features. These features will include:

- The machine readable zone
- An ultra violet image
- An infra red image

As part of your pre-employment checks, we will also be required to obtain satisfactory, written references. Please ensure that the referee details which you provide on your application form are correct. We require at least one written reference from your current or most recent line manager. We are only able to accept references from a professional work email address.

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Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.