Clinical Nurse Specialist

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 our Guildford Hospital for an experienced Clinical Nurse Specialist in Breast Care . Continue your journey with us whilst we'll support you to be your best.

The opportunity 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 our Clinical Nurse Specialist - Breast care you 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

To succeed as a Clinical Nurse Specialist - Breast care , you will need:

•  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-registration training, 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/management experience.

• 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 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.