Specialist Breast Care Nurse

4 weeks ago

Wigan, Wigan, United Kingdom Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time
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 is 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.

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 alongside 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.'

At WWL We Value the Benefits a Rich and Diverse Workforce Brings to Our Community and Therefore Welcome Applications from All Sections of Society.

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

Essential Criteria

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

Desirable Criteria

Demonstrate counselling skills, experience/qualification
Oncology qualification, e.g. ENB237 cancer course or equivalent
Advanced communication skills

Experience

Essential Criteria

Significant post-registration proven experience within this clinical speciality

Desirable Criteria

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

Essential Criteria

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 settings
Basic IT skills

Desirable Criteria

Advanced communication skills

Knowledge

Essential Criteria

Knowledge of professional and NHS issues and policy relating to breast disease management and implications/application to clinical practice
Evidence of continuing professional development

Desirable Criteria

Understanding of research management
Teaching and assessing knowledge and ability

Additional

Essential Criteria

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

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