Breast Care Clinical Nurse Specialist

3 months ago

Colchester, United Kingdom East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

Would you like to progress your career in a specialist field as part of a team who have an excellent reputation for delivering a high standard of care, working innovatively and progressing changes locally and nationally?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Breast Clinical Nurse Specialist. This post is full time hours per week, however we may be able to accept part time or a job share. Whilst based in Colchester there may be occasional need to work across ESNEFT sites. Significant previous breast clinical nurse specialist experience and attainment of a breast care qualification is essential.

You will be a key member of the team and make an important contribution to the care and management of patients with breast problems including those undergoing treatment for primary breast cancer, by providing support and specialist nursing advice to the patients, their relatives and other health care professionals. Following the national initiative, you will be fundamental to providing patient centred follow up and be able to contribute to service development in line with local and national initiatives.

We require someone who is caring and compassionate with a committed attitude to be able to respond positively and flexibly to the challenges of delivering this service. You must be able to work autonomously, as part of a small team and collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team, be enthusiastic, motivated and driven to provide high quality and high standards of care.

Main duties of the job

To provide a highly developed standard of specialist breast care knowledge, advice, clinical expertise and education, underpinned by theoretical knowledge and practical experience, to patients, families, and other health care professionals regarding the management of breast disease.

To have continuing responsibility for providing co-ordinated, holistic care for patients with breast disease from diagnosis, throughout treatment and specified follow up pathway.

To participate in aspects of clinical governance and implement quality initiatives as part of the audit process to both set and evaluate standards of care and service delivery within the nursing team and when appropriate the multidisciplinary team.

To contribute to the development of the breast care service within the Trust, demonstrating and raising awareness of the contribution of expert nursing to patient care.

About us

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you

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Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Nurse (level 1) 1st level degree in a relevant subject Relevant specialist long course in breast care at degree level Evidence of mentoring and coaching Advanced communication course Psychological level 2 training

Desirable

Evidence of working at Masters degree level Evidence of clinical history taking skills Clinical breast examination course or willingness to undertake Training and competence in micro-pigmentation or willing ness to undertake

Experience

Essential

Registered Nurse with proven relevant experience at Band 6 caring for patients with breast disorders Ability to empathise and provide advice to patients and their families Ability to manage a caseload of patients Extensive experience of working autonomously at an advanced level within specialist area delivering effective patient focused care

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