Breast Care Support Nurse

NHS; Luton; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Luton is seeking a Breast Care Support Nurse to enhance the quality of care for breast cancer patients. The role involves collaborating with multiple disciplines, ensuring compliance with clinical governance, and supporting educational needs. Candidates should be Registered Nurses with significant clinical experience. Join a team committed to patient care and professional development.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with NMC and degree or working towards in nursing specialty.
• Substantial clinical experience in an acute hospital setting.
• Experience of teaching staff/patients in the working environment.

Responsibilities

• Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate programmes of care.
• Manage patient care according to agreed protocols.
• Demonstrate clinical knowledge relevant to the clinical specialty.

Skills

Clinical knowledge and expertise

Advanced communication skills

Ability to evidence professional development

Education

Current Registered Nurse with the NMC

Degree in Nurse related specialty or working towards

Mentorship or teaching qualification

Tools

NHS IT Systems

Job description

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Breast Care Support Nurse

The closing date is 03 November 2025

Pay Band: Band 6 - Fixed term 1 year/Secondment

Working with the Breast cancer CNS team, you will support Service development and improve patient experience based on emerging and best practice models of care, which is responsive to patient feedback and audit findings.

You will be expected to play a supportive role in ensuring the team comply with local and national policy, clinical governance and Peer review.

You will work collaboratively with referring GPs and all members of the extended multidisciplinary team including imaging departments, medical and surgical consultants, clinical nurse specialists, research teams, acute oncology, specialist palliative care, ward nursing teams and administrative teams.

Integral to you your role, you will support the educational needs of staff working in the breast and oncology departments to ensure your and your team's expertise has maximum impact.

As a band 6 you will be expected to meet the essential criteria, possess the relevant post registration experience as outlined in the person specification.

Main duties of the job

To support the symptomatic breast clinical services in providing supportive care for patients with breast cancer, their relatives and carers, from diagnosis, throughout treatment, survivorship pathways, and metastatic disease.

To provide a high standard of care to patients who attend for treatment and supportive care.

The postholder will be expected to work closely with the Breast Care Clinical Nurse Specialists, the Breast Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT), and the Acute Oncology team, in order to implement National Guidance, and ensure patients receive the best care.

To be part of an established, integrated cancer and palliative care service that influences care by specialist practice, encompassing advanced clinical practice, education, and evidence based learning.

About us

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.

Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job.

Job responsibilities

1. To assess, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of care, providing specialist advice and actively seeking evidence based practice which will improve the quality of care and meet the needs of a delegated group of patients. A holistic approach to caring should be planned that will include the appropriate level of physiological, pathological, spiritual, socio- economic and cultural aspects which influence the care of clients within your specific speciality.

2. Manage patient care according to agreed protocols, taking appropriate action, seeking advice from other members of the multi-disciplinary team as appropriate.

a. Carry out planned care for a group of patients without direct supervision.

b. Ensure the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of evidence based, individualised patient care.

3. Demonstrate clinical knowledge and expertise at the level of advanced practice relevant to the clinical speciality.

4. Act as a source of Breast Care nursing expertise within the Division, across the Trust and as a representative of the Trust.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• oCurrent Registered Nurse with the NMC oDegree in Nurse related specialty or working towards oMentorship or teaching qualification oAble to evidence recent and continuing professional development relevant to the department
• oDegree in related speciality or working towards oAdvanced communications skills IRMER Qualified

Experience

• oSubstantial clinical experience within acute hospital setting oExperience of working collaboratively across professions, organisations and services oExperience of teaching staff/ patients/relatives within the working environment oExperience within the speciality
• oParticipation in service development and implementation oExperience of managing a patient caseload.

knowledge

• oKnowledge of professional and NHS issues. oDemonstrates knowledge of oncology, XXXX and research within the specialist field oDemonstrate knowledge and application of Clinical Governance oDemonstrate knowledge of Clinical audit and research oKnowledge of NHS IT Systems
• oDemonstrate having research in practice.

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.

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust