Clinical Nurse Specialist - Breast Care

NHS; Guildford; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Guildford is seeking a Clinical Nurse Specialist for Breast Care. The role involves overseeing compassionate care delivery, coordinating management for patients, and collaborating with specialists to enhance service quality. Applicants should be registered and possess postgraduate training in Breast Care, alongside leadership experience. This is a permanent full-time position offering a competitive salary up to £50,560 depending on experience.

Qualifications

• Registered clinical practitioner with appropriate governing body.
• Experience working in Surgery and/or Oncology.
• Demonstrable specialist experience as a Subject Matter Expert.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the delivery of care in breast cancer management.
• Coordinate care management, providing support and advocacy.
• Implement quality improvement initiatives in the specialist area.

Skills

Expert communication skills

Leadership/management experience

Education

Registered clinical practitioner

A degree or equivalent qualification

Postgraduate training in Breast Care

Job description

Job Title & Details

Clinical Nurse Specialist – Breast Care – Guildford, Nursing – Permanent – Full time – Up to £50,560 per annum depending on experience – 37.5 hours per week

Main duties of the job

• Oversee the delivery of care, acting as a key worker in breast cancer, ensuring that all team members treat patients, families, friends and representatives with kindness, dignity, respect and compassion while supporting them emotionally with care, treatment or condition.
• Coordinate care management and delivery; offering patients and their carers care, advocacy, information, education and psychological support.
• Support the pathway from our Breast One Stop clinics, imaging and diagnosis through treatment planning, implementation, surgery and oncological treatments.
• Expert communication skills required in a kind and compassionate manner, demonstrating knowledge and skills of breast cancer, its treatments and side effects.
• Partner and collaborate with other specialist clinicians and clinical leaders within the organisation to develop and implement new ideas, protocols and pathways to improve the Breast Service, enabling seamless patient care.
• Seek opportunities to evaluate patient experience, learning from complaints, accolades and feedback and continually striving towards the delivery of seamless patient care.
• Identify opportunities and drive quality improvement and assurance activity in the specialist area, supporting the delivery of Nuffield Health's clinical audit schedule and continuous improvement cycle.
• Support patients during normal hours and out of hours as part of the on‑call rota system to support our 24‑hour patient advice line.

About us

Nuffield Health Guildford Hospital provides high‑quality healthcare working with leading consultants to offer a range of services and treatments for preventing, diagnosing and treating a wide array of medical conditions and offer a wide range of complex surgery and services. We are proud to have received a "good" rating from the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Our facilities include 49 en‑suite patient bedrooms, four operating theatres, an acute dependency and oncology units. We’ve been awarded the Macmillan Quality Environment Mark for cancer care and our endoscopy service has achieved JAG accreditation. Our site is shared with an NHS Trust hospital, giving us access to their facilities. The working atmosphere is highly professional and stimulating, yet friendly and collaborative like that of a large family unit. The hospital is easily accessible from the A3 or M25 and we are located about 1.5 miles from Guildford town centre.

Qualifications & requirements

• Registered clinical practitioner with the appropriate governing body.
• A degree or equivalent qualification or proven post‑registration/post‑qualification experience in own specialist area.
• Postgraduate/post‑registration training, qualifications and accreditations appropriate to Breast Care.
• Evidence of continued professional development.
• Recognised advanced practice.
• Experience working in Surgery and/or Oncology.
• Specialist, senior level post‑registration experience gained through formal training required to meet registration requirements.
• Demonstrable specialist experience as a Subject Matter Expert.
• Leadership/management experience.
• Flexible working – ability to work some evening clinics / support other team members on leave.

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.