Breast Clinical Nurse Specialist

Breast Clinical Nurse Specialist

Nuffield Health St Barts | Cancer Services | Permanent | Full Time

Salary: based on experience.

37.5 hours per week

Nuffield Health is the UK's largest Healthcare Charity. From our innovative healthcare and leisure facilities to our community access programmes, we're committed to building a healthier nation. Inside our award-winning hospitals, this starts with commitment to quality and the highest standards of patient care. It starts with you.

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, motivated and dynamic individual to join our Cancer team as a Breast Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS). As a Breast Cancer CNS, you will work as part of the multidisciplinary team, ensuring that patients with breast cancer receive the highest standard of evidence-based care and support from the time of diagnosis and throughout the cancer pathway. You will work autonomously with an extended and advanced scope of practice, providing clinical leadership and specialist knowledge and skills that enable the delivery of the highest quality, patient care: care that is patient-centred, evidence-based, brand-defining and innovative; delivered in line with organisational, regulatory and governance requirements. You will manage your own clinical caseload taking a holistic approach towards care management and delivery, solving complex care dilemmas with dynamic and innovative solutions and leading and developing the service in line with own specialist knowledge and expertise.

Who we are looking for:

Educational Qualifications – Essential:

• Registered clinical practitioner with the appropriate governing body.
• A degree / equivalent qualification or proven post-registration/post-qualification experience in own specialist area.
• Advanced Communication course.

Educational Qualifications – Desirable:

• Postgraduate/post-registration training, qualifications and accreditations as appropriate to the specialism.
• Evidence of stretching continued professional development.

Experience, Knowledge & Expertise:

• Recognised advanced practice.
• Specialist, senior level, post-registration experience gained through formal training required to meet registration requirements.
• Demonstrable specialist experience as a Subject Matter Expert.
• Leadership/management experience.
• Compassionate, empathetic and able to showcase excellent patient care.

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.

Nuffield Health Barts Hospital

We've opened the doors to Nuffield Health at St Bartholomew's Hospital: The City of London's only independent hospital, situated next to St Bartholomew's NHS hospital. This is our flagship center for cardiac services and will also provide a full range of surgical and medical services, including: orthopaedics, oncology, general surgery, gynaecology and urology services.

Our hospital consists of 55 beds, including 7 Specialist intensive care beds, four of the most advanced digital operating theatres and Endoscopy and minor ops theatre. With 28 consultation rooms, a Cardiac catheterisation lab, an Oncology Day unit and a full diagnostic imaging suite including MRI, CT, ultrasound, mammography and general X-ray.

If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive 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.