Breast Clinical Nurse Specialist
Sherwood Forest Hospitals Nhs Foundation Trust
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Job summary
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced Clinical Nurse Specialist – Advanced Breast Practice to join its Breast Services team. The post is senior and autonomous, requiring management of patients across diagnostic, treatment and follow-up pathways alongside a multidisciplinary team.
The role demands substantial breast clinical experience, advanced assessment and decision-making, and the ability to lead clinical care from appointment.
Qualifications
- Registered nurse with NMC Level 1 status.
- Breast clinic experience and advanced practice capability.
- Ability to perform advanced assessments and investigations.
- Experience in autonomous clinical decision-making.
- Experience with nurse-led and community-based clinics.
- Willingness to obtain non-medical prescribing if needed.
Responsibilities
- Undertake advanced assessment and diagnostic reasoning.
- Lead clinical decision-making and treatment plans.
- Manage patient care across breast diagnostic, treatment and follow-up pathways.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary breast team.
Skills
Education
Job description
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Clinical Nurse Specialist - Advanced Breast Practice to join our established Breast Services team at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
This is a senior, autonomous clinical post for an experienced breast clinician who is able to assess, investigate and manage patients across defined breast diagnostic, treatment and follow-up pathways. The successful candidate will work alongside Consultant Breast Surgeons, Breast Radiologists, Oncologists, Breast Care Nurses and the wider multidisciplinary team.
Although the post is substantively badged as a Clinical Nurse Specialist, this is an advanced clinical practice role and is deliberately distinct from the traditional Breast Care Nurse role. The postholder will have direct responsibility for clinical assessment, diagnostic investigation, clinical decision-making, treatment and follow-up.
Applicants must already have substantial experience in breast clinical practice and be able to demonstrate advanced assessment, diagnostic reasoning and autonomous clinical decision-making. This is not a developmental post for a nurse wishing to progress into advanced practice, and the successful candidate will be expected to undertake the clinical responsibilities of the role from appointment, subject to the Trust's usual governance and competency requirements.
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here: Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK. Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.
Date posted: 20 October 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 214-SRG-8344088
Job locations: King's Mill Hospital, Mansfield Road, Sutton in Ashfield, NG17 4JL, United Kingdom
- Excellent communication and listening skills
- Specialist breast benign conditions and breast cancer knowledge and expertise
- Good computer skills
- Good interpersonal and organisational skills
- Team player
- Experience of teaching and assessing healthcare professionals
- Research awareness
- Audit methodologies
- NMC Level One Registered Nurse
- BSc in Nursing
- ENB 998 or equivalent teaching course
- Evidence of post-basic specialist education
- Educated to Masters level (or working towards) or formal training in advanced breast clinical assessment and examination
- Non-medical prescribing (or willingness to undertake)
- Motivational interviewing / counselling course / training
- Significant experience post registration at band 7 in breast clinical practice - assessing patients with breast symptoms, breast sepsis and managing patients with suspected or confirmed breast cancer
- Advanced clinical history-taking and breast and axillary examination skills
- Experience of autonomous clinical decision making
- Experience of primary endocrine treatment for breast cancer
- Ability to request and interpret appropriate investigations and formulate clinical management plans
- Experience of nurse-led and community-based specialist clinics
- Ability to recognise suspected malignancy and appropriately elevate or refer
- Membership of special interest and professional group
- Working within a leadership role
- Change management and leadership skills
- Experience of audit and service improvement
- Multidisciplinary team working
- Caseload management
- Demonstrable experience of teaching / training healthcare professionals
- Experience of clinical leadership within a breast cancer service
- Experience contributing to workforce planning, role development or skill-mix transformation
- Experience developing clinical guidelines, protocols or competency frameworks
- Leadership or management qualification, or equivalent experience
- Flexible approach to working
- Ability to work unsupervised
- Ability to travel between sites
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer name: Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address: King's Mill Hospital, Mansfield Road, Sutton in Ashfield, NG17 4JL, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/
Head of Service (Breast Surgery)
Ellie Gutteridge
eleanor.gutteridge4@nhs.net
01623622515
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