Breast Cancer Care Specialist

6 days ago


Doncaster, Doncaster, United Kingdom Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time
Job Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our well-established team as a Breast Clinical Nurse Specialist in the Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Main Responsibilities

The role involves offering specialist information and providing psychological support to patients and families who have been diagnosed with breast cancer, through breast screening and symptomatic pathways.

This challenging role includes working with the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) to provide advice, holistic care, and support to patients attending the breast services.

Candidates should have a high level of independence, excellent communication skills, and the ability to work autonomously and as part of the Breast CNS team.

There is also a requirement to work across sites.

Previous experience in the care and management of breast disease or oncology is desirable. Specialized training will be provided by the Breast CNS team in-house and externally.

Main Duties

Leadership and Clinical Expertise

Provide clinical expertise, with high standards of person-centered care.

Promote a culture that supports/enables self-management.

Education and Training

Deliver education and training to other professionals involved in patient care.

Multi-Professional Working

Active member of the multi-professional meeting - patient advocate.

Communication and Conflict Resolution

Role model with excellent communication skills.

Has conflict resolution, negotiation skills when dealing with challenging situations.

Patient-Focused Education

Support patient-focused education, i.e., train self-manage for ongoing consequences of treatments.

Personal and Professional Development

Develops clinical, technical, and research skills.

Demonstrates evaluation of nursing practice and suggests changes.

Personal responsibility for life-long learning/personal development through clinical supervision, appraisal, and Knowledge and Skills Framework.

Key Worker and Care Management

Act as a Key Worker for a clinical caseload.

Work to proactively manage care and provide easy access for ongoing support for patients.

Information and Support

Assesses people's information needs and provide relevant information.

Provide clinical expertise, specialist advice, and support across services.

Follow an agreed care pathway, refer to other professionals, and sign-post to other agencies as appropriate.

Self-Management and Risk Stratification

Promote self-management, risk stratification to determine who can self-manage, those who will need guided support, and those who will require ongoing face-to-face support, to live with and beyond cancer and its treatment.

Working for Our Organisation

All staff working within the trust have a duty to be aware of their own and the organisation's roles and responsibilities for safeguarding and protecting children and young people, and vulnerable adults.

You must be competent to recognise abuse, respond appropriately, and contribute to the processes for safeguarding, accessing training and supervision as appropriate to your role.

The prevention and control of infection is an integral part of the role of all healthcare personnel.

Staff members, in conjunction with all relevant professionals, will contribute to the prevention and control of infection through standard infection control practices and compliance with the trust's infection control policies, in order to ensure the highest quality of care to patients.

You must be aware of and adhere to Health and Safety legislation, policies, and procedures, to ensure your own safety and that of colleagues, patients, visitors, and any other person who may be affected by your actions at work.

You are reminded of your duty under the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 to take reasonable care to avoid injury to yourself and others; to officially report all incidents.



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