Lead Clinical Nurse Specialist - Breast Care
The closing date is 09 November 2025
Job summary
Warwick Breast Care Team is seeking a Breast Clinical Nurse Specialist Lead. The successful candidate will have sound experience, at band 7 or above, of working within an NHS breast care service. The candidate should have experience of managing a team and working strategically within a multi-disciplinary team.
The team's ethos is one of providing compassionate and holistic care for patients receiving treatment in both the primary and secondary settings throughout the treatment pathway. We have developed a service that is highly regarded within the Trust and region.
You will have evidence of working at Masters Level, or be willing to do so. Ideally you will have the ability to undertake breast clinical assessment and the requesting of ultrasounds and mammograms.
The team currently holds nurse led clinics including extended adjuvant patients and patients taking CDK4/6 medication in the secondary setting, as well as Two Week Wait and Patient Centred Follow-up nurse lead clinics.
We are seeking someone dynamic with enthusiasm and expert clinical judgement to lead the team in delivering the highest standards of holistic care.
Please contact Sian Corrie on 01926 495321 ext. 4503 or sian.corrie@swft.nhs.uk if you would like any further information
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide strategic nursing leadership to the delivery of Breast Care services across the organisation.
The post holder will work collaboratively with the Breast multi-disciplinary team (MDT) and with other internal and external stakeholders to ensure efficiency and effectiveness in the delivery of Breast Care services. The post holder will use improvement tools and practice development techniques to drive forward service quality for Breast Care.
In partnership with the MDT the post holder will oversee the co-ordination of services to ensure the timely provision of accessible high-quality services for people with Breast Care needs and their families/carers.
Using advanced nursing practice; take personal responsibility for managing a caseload of patients referred for specialist intervention, care and support. This would include undertaking clinical palpation and requesting imaging for patients who require an unscheduled review whilst on Patient Centred Follow-up.
The post holder will exercise professional autonomy, making critical judgements demonstrating highly developed and advanced specialist knowledge and expertise. The role will be responsible for contributing to the ongoing development of innovative practice, research and standards of care.
About us
Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
As part of our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion we encourage all applicants to complete a short survey. This can be accessed via the link below:
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Details
Date posted
22 October 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8a
Salary
£55,690 to £62,682 a year pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
203-EL991
Job locations
Warwick Hospital
Warwick Hospital, Lakin Road,
Warwick,
CV34 5BW
Employer details
Employer name
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Warwick Hospital
Warwick Hospital, Lakin Road,
Warwick,
CV34 5BW
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