Clinical Nurse Specialist - Breast care

Nuffield Health Brentwood; Guildford; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 51,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Guildford is seeking a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Breast Care who will act as a key worker for breast cancer patients. This role requires excellent clinical knowledge, leadership abilities, and strong communication skills to ensure the highest quality patient care throughout the breast care pathway. The ideal candidate will have experience in both oncology and patient advocacy and will support professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Free gym membership

Health assessments

Retail discounts

Pension options

Qualifications

• Registered clinical practitioner with appropriate governing body.
• Experience in Surgery and/or Oncology.
• Evidence of continued professional development.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the delivery of care for breast cancer patients.
• Coordinate care management and delivery.
• Support the pathway from diagnosis to treatment.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical knowledge in Breast Care

Communication skills

Patient advocacy

Education

Registered clinical practitioner

Degree or equivalent qualification in specialist area

Postgraduate training in Breast Care

Job description

Clinical Nurse Specialist - Breast Care

Guildford | Nursing | Permanent | Full time – Up to £50,560 per annum depending on experience – 37.5 hours per week

An exciting opportunity has arisen in ourGuildford Hospitalfor an experiencedClinical Nurse Specialist in Breast Care. Continue your journey with us whilst we’ll support you to be your best.

Theopportunity is for a skilled, motivated, confident nurse to join our new team. We are looking for a Clinical Nurse Specialist who is experienced in both Breast Care, Oncology and leadership.

This is a position to support the breast care pathway. For patients from Imaging and diagnosis through to surgery, oncology and onwards.Supporting your nursing colleagues, breast surgeons, oncologists, out-patient team, theatre, and ward manager, by providing a high standard of care both within the outpatient setting and visiting patients on the ward post-procedure.

There are plenty of opportunities for staff to develop their knowledge and skills and you will be offered support for your on-going professional development.

The opportunity

As a Clinical Specialist in Breast Care, you will need to operate autonomously with an extended and advanced scope of practice, providing clinical leadership, specialist knowledge and skills that enable the delivery of the highest quality patient care.

As ourClinical Nurse Specialist - Breast careyou will:

• 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 are required in a kind and compassionate manor, demonstrating knowledge and skills of breast cancer, its treatments and side effects.

• To partner and collaborate with other specialist clinicians and clinical leaders within the organization to develop and implement new ideas, protocols and pathways to improve the Breast Service, enabling seamless patient care.

• To seek opportunities to evaluate patient experience, learning from complaints, accolades and feedback and continually striving towards the delivery of seamless patient care

• To identify opportunities and drive quality improvement and assurance activity in specialist area, supporting the delivery of Nuffield Health’s clinical audit schedule and continuous improvement cycle.

• To support patients during normal hours and out of hours being part of the oncall rota system to support our 24hour patient advice line

The person

• Registered clinical practitioner with the appropriate governing body.

• A degree / equivalent qualification or proven post-registration/post- qualification experience in own specialist area.

• Postgraduate/post-registrationtraining, qualifications and accreditations as appropriate to Breast Care.

• Evidence of stretching continued professional development.

• Recognized 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/managementexperience.

• Flexible working- ability to work some evening clinics/ support other team members on leave.

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.

Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today.

If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as wereceive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it’s a good idea to apply right away to ensure you’re considered for this role.

It starts with you.