Specialist Breast Care Nurse

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Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Location:

Wigan, United Kingdom

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Other

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Job Reference:

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Posted:

28.04.2025

Expiry Date:

12.06.2025

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Job Description:

Choose Well - Choose WWL

Job overview

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Foundation Trust breast care services, have an exciting opportunity to join our multi-disciplinary breast care team, as a 12 month secondment.

Our team are looking for a motivated individual with a keen interest in breast care, to work within the screening and symptomatic service. We are looking for somebody with Surgical and Oncology Services experience. We provide a wide range of oncoplastic surgical techniques, and work closely with the oncology and research teams.

We are a friendly forward thinking team, working together using a multi-disciplinary approach to achieve the best outcome for our patients.

This vacancy is open to all internal candidates. NHS Employees should ideally secure their manager’s agreement for a secondment arrangement ideally prior to applying, as this will be a condition of any offer made. This vacancy is advertised on a fixed term basis as it has been established to provide cover for an employee on secondment for 12 months or when the substantive post holder returns. Whilst this post is advertised on an acting / secondment basis there is the potential that this post may become permanent in the future.

Main duties of the job

• Provides a specialist, continuing, supportive Breast Care Service within the hospital and community setting, offering optimum healthcare to patients, their families and carers.
• Manages and organises own case load.
• To work along side and support the lead Specialist Breast Care Nurse.
• Provides specialist breast care education, training and imparts sensitive information for patients, their carers and other healthcare professionals, ensuring that patient confidentiality is maintained.

Working for our organisation

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that ‘happy staff, makes for happy patients’. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement, and living our values ‘the WWL Way’.

WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.

At WWL we value the benefits a rich and diverse workforce brings to our community and therefore welcome applications from all sections of society.

On-Call

Please note that senior positions (AFC band 8A or above) may be expected to participate in an on-call rota, if the role is predominantly operational.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Provides professional clinical leadership, guidance, expert advice and support within the Breast Care Nursing team.
• Provides a specialist, continuing, supportive Breast Care Service within the hospital and community setting, offering optimum healthcare to patients, their families and carers.
• Delivers high quality, evidence based, patient centred care within clearly defined guidelines and protocols, this will improve the patients experience and meet local needs.
• Provides specialist breast care education, training and imparts sensitive information for patients, their carers and other healthcare professionals, ensuring that patient confidentiality is maintained.

Person specification

Qualifications

• First level registered nurse
• Degree/degree pathway in health related subject/willing to work towards
• ENB A11 or equivalent specialist qualification or willingness to work towards
• Teaching qualification/mentorship course or equivalent experience
• Demonstrate counselling skills, experience/qualification.
• Oncology qualification, e.g. ENB237 cancer course or equivalent
• Advanced communication skills

Experience

• Significant post registration proven experience within this clinical speciality.
• Experience of participation in outpatient clinics in this specialty.
• Evidence of involvement in policy development /guidelines.
• Experience in clinical audit
• Experience of audit and research

Skills

• Ability to communicate potentially unpleasant/ sensitive information to patients in a variety of settings
• Able to influence and overcome resistance through application of advanced communication skills.
• Ability to manage own caseload.
• Ability to perform assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care.
• Ability to perform relevant clinical skills
• Ability to develop effective interpersonal relationships with colleagues across health and social care setting
• Basic IT Skills
• Advanced Communication Skills

Knowledge

• Knowledge of professional and NHS issues and policy relating to Breast Disease management and implications / application to clinical practice
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Understanding of research management
• Teaching and assessing knowledge and ability

Additional

• Flexible approach to work
• Speak English to an appropriate standard relevant to their role, i.e. with confidence and accuracy, using correct sentence structures and vocabulary, and without hesitation