Macmillan Breast Clinical Nurse Specialist

NHS; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits for an enthusiastic nurse to join a dedicated Breast Clinical Nurse Specialist Team. This role involves providing expert care and support to patients undergoing breast reconstruction surgery, ensuring personalized care through holistic assessments. Working in a dynamic environment, the successful candidate will collaborate with a motivated team to enhance patient outcomes and contribute to ongoing clinical excellence. If you are passionate about making a difference in patient care and enjoy working in a supportive team, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with experience in Breast Care.
• Educated to degree level or currently on a degree pathway.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert advice and manage a patient caseload.
• Support patients through decision-making and treatment.
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team for patient care.

Skills

Leadership skills

Enhanced communication skills

Motivating multidisciplinary teams

Basic IT skills

Advanced clinical skills

Education

First-level Registered Nurse

Degree level education

Teaching Qualification

Job description

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and experienced nurse to join our Breast (and Endocrine Surgery) Clinical Nurse Specialist Team as a Breast Reconstruction Clinical Nurse Specialist.

The successful candidate will join a very busy, well-established, and motivated team providing an excellent service to patients undergoing breast reconstruction surgery following previous breast cancer surgery, as part of risk-reducing pathways and benign surgery.

This post is permanent, 37.5 hours per week.

The successful candidate will have previous post-registration clinical experience in caring for patients with breast cancer. Applicants should possess excellent IT, literacy, communication, and organizational skills and be prepared to work flexibly.

Main duties of the job

As part of the Breast Specialist Nursing Team, you will be supported by a dedicated team.

You will provide expert advice to patients, supporting them through decision-making, treatment, and beyond. This includes managing a caseload and delivering follow-up services across the Royal and Aintree Breast Units:

• Nurse-Led Breast Prosthesis Clinic
• Nurse-Led Nipple Tattoo Clinic
• Attending Joint Genetics Clinic
• Nurse-led follow-up clinic
• Complex wound management and review
• Management of post-op complications such as seromas

You will develop skills to personalize care through undertaking Holistic Needs Assessments and encouraging patient-supported self-management.

You will work as part of a well-established team but also have the ability to work autonomously.

About us

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, and Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group aims to improve patient care.

UHLG is one of the largest regional employers, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities—from birth onwards.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general, emergency, and highly specialized regional services for over two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts regional services, including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital offers elective surgical, diagnostic, and treatment services, along with specialist rehabilitation. Liverpool Women's Hospital specializes in women's and babies' health, delivering over 7,200 babies annually. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

For roles at Liverpool Women's, visit their careers page.

Date posted: 29 April 2025

Pay scheme: Agenda for Change

Band: Band 7

Salary: £46,148 to £52,809 per annum

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time

Reference number: 287-RSUR-40-25

Job locations: Royal Liverpool Hospital, Mount Vernon Street, Liverpool, L7 8YE

Job description

Job responsibilities

1. Perform specialist personalized assessment and higher-level discussion of patients' holistic needs.
2. Demonstrate higher-level clinical care by managing a patient caseload, providing expert assessment, planning, and evaluation.
3. Contribute to a multi-professional approach in managing patients, especially regarding ongoing care needs and discharge arrangements, including access to community cancer support.
4. Establish and maintain effective communication with patients and carers/relatives.
5. Support patients and their families, ensuring they receive the information needed to self-manage and participate in their care.
6. Recognize changes in patients' conditions requiring intervention and case manage/refer as appropriate.
7. Support, assist, and encourage the multidisciplinary team in resolving patient problems.
8. Deliver high standards of patient care.
9. Work in partnership with the Lead Cancer Nurse, clinicians, and the wider team to ensure high standards of care.
10. Collaborate with team members to promote development and provide training to other nurses.

A full job description is attached.

Person Specification

Qualifications (Essential)

• First-level Registered Nurse with demonstrable experience in Breast Care.
• A recognized qualification in cancer or Breast Care nursing, e.g., RGN N09.
• Educated to degree level or currently on a degree pathway or equivalent.
• Relevant Teaching Qualification or equivalent.

Qualifications (Desirable)

• Masters Study.
• Counselling Certificate or relevant post-registration Cancer Nursing qualification.

Experience (Essential)

• Significant post-registration experience in Breast Cancer Care.
• Experience in Audit.
• Multidisciplinary team working.
• Relevant Clinical Management experience.
• Teaching and learning skills.
• Experience working in a multidisciplinary team.

Knowledge (Essential)

• Evidence of continuing study.
• Understanding of contemporary issues in breast cancer patient care.
• Knowledge of research methodology.
• Understanding of current national cancer policy and its implications.
• Understanding of professional nursing issues in Breast nursing and the wider nursing agenda.

Knowledge (Desirable)

• Relevant publications.

Skills (Essential)

• Leadership skills.
• Enhanced communication/counselling skills.
• Motivate, inspire, and support a multidisciplinary team.
• Basic IT/Computer Skills.
• Effective communication in clinical and professional settings.
• Competence in advanced clinical skills.
• Ability to develop and maintain professional networks.
• Work effectively under pressure to meet targets and goals.

Other (Essential)

• Ability to travel across the geographical area covered by this post.