Breast Clinical Nurse Specialist

Forest Hospitals Nhs Foundation Trust; Sutton-in-Ashfield; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust seeks a senior, autonomous breast clinician to assess, investigate and manage patients across defined breast pathways. The post works alongside Consultant Breast Surgeons, Breast Radiologists, Oncologists, Breast Care Nurses and the wider MDT.

While badgeed as a Clinical Nurse Specialist, the role is an advanced clinical practice post with direct responsibility for clinical assessment, diagnostics, decision-making, treatment and follow-up from appointment.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in breast clinical practice with advanced assessment and autonomous decision-making.
• Ability to assess, investigate, and manage patients across diagnostic, treatment and follow-up pathways.
• Experience working in an NHS trust with multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Assess, investigate and manage patients across defined breast diagnostic and treatment pathways.
• Make autonomous clinical decisions and oversee follow-up within agreed governance.
• Collaborate with Consultant Breast Surgeons, Radiologists, Oncologists and Breast Care Nurses.

Job description

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.

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.

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