Specialist Breast Care Nurse

Wwl; Wigan; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Wigan seeks a motivated Breast Care Nurse to provide specialized services within the hospital and community settings. The role involves managing patient caseloads, providing education, and delivering high-quality nursing care. Candidates should hold a professional nursing qualification with experience in oncology nursing.

Qualifications

• First level registered nurse with oncology qualifications.
• Experience in managing clinical specialities and outpatient clinics.
• Advanced communication and counselling skills essential.

Responsibilities

• Provides specialist Breast Care Service within hospital and community.
• Manages and organizes own caseload effectively.
• Delivers high-quality, patient-centered care.

Skills

Counselling skills

Advanced communication skills

Ability to manage own caseload

Ability to perform clinical skills

Education

First level registered nurse

Degree in health related subject

ENB A11 or equivalent

Teaching qualification

Oncology qualification, e.g. ENB237

Job description

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.

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.

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

Our Trust prefers candidates to submit applications online. Please contact the Recruitment Team on 01942 244000 if you have difficulty applying online.

The Trust reserves the right to close adverts earlier than the stated closing date if there is a high volume of applications.

We endeavour to inform all applicants of the outcome of their application by email or SMS text message.

Guidance on Completing Your Application

Applications are scored against the person specification, therefore we recommend that you use the supporting information section of your application form to demonstrate how you meet the essential and desirable criteria for the role, providing illustrative examples where possible.

On-Call

Please note that some roles may require you to participate in an on-call rota, if the role is predominantly operational.

WWL has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. and will recognise your continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester Local Authority or NHS organisation, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority; giving you access to our service-related benefits.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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