Breast Clinical Nurse Specialist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Communication

Always work collaboratively with the MDT ensuring effective teamwork for both breast screening and breast care services at all sites

Provide sensitive and advanced communication to all patients and their significant others with all interactions.

Working with nurses and Allied Health Professionals within the Breast Screening and Imaging Service, Breast Care Services, supporting and developing their skills in caring for patients recalled for further assessment and patients with breast cancer, particularly when communication complex and sensitive issues.

Ensure the delivery of appropriate communication for patients who may have barriers to communication and specific needs such as learning disabilities / difficulties

To consult effectively with internal and external trust staff to ensure the optimal care delivery for patients

To attend daily staff huddles and team meetings and escalate operational, clinical and staffing concerns

To provide clear, concise, and accurate written and digital nursing documentation

To deliver benign results to patients as locally agreed

Provides expert advice to patients and staff on breast cancer and benign breast conditions.

Partakes in formal and informal teaching activities on breast cancer and treatments to trust staff and patients

Service delivery and improvement

Contributes to the risk management and health and safety in the workplace raising concerns appropriately

Demonstrate team cohesion and collaborative working adapting practice to the needs of the service

Flexible approach to working across sites to ensure the service delivery optimisation

To attend team meetings and play an active role in supporting any service changes and improvements within breast screening and breast care

Supports the trust and divisional cancer strategies

Works with the Matrons and Quality Improvement Manager to actively partake in Health Promotion activities relating to Breast Screening and Breast Awareness

Initiative-taking in performing clinical audits and patient experience surveys relating to trust standards and breast services

Supports the development of nurse-led services for service demands

Works within the West Sussex, East Sussex, Brighton and Hove Breast Screening services under the NHS England Quality Assurances guidelines for the CNS in breast screening

Contributes to the development of Standard Operating Procedures and Policies relating to the breast services

Ensures concerns are raised within the trust policy using DATIX, governance and risk frameworks

People management and development

Responsible for performing duties in line with the Trusts e-rostering processes, including managing rosters, supporting staff allocation, and contributing to effective budget reconciliation and workforce planning

Provide support and development training for the Band 6 nurses and HCAs

Performs staff annual appraisals in line with trust guidance and line management

Deputise the Matrons when asked to support the management of staff sickness and absences in line with Trust policy

Provide professional and clinical leadership to enable effective and safe team working

Actively involved in the recruitment process and retention of staff

Acts as a role model for junior staff and partakes in staff clinical supervision

Patient care delivery

Adheres to the NMC Code- Professional standards of practice and behaviour for nurses, midwives and nursing associates always

Responsible for Nurse-in-Charge duties to manage the clinical demands of the service and team to ensure patient care is always delivered to a high standard

The CNS will provide specialist support for patients recalled from breast screening to assessment and specialist nursing advice

Undertakes an assessment of all patients information needs and provides appropriate support and information during the diagnostic process

Use specialist knowledge to deliver evidence-based care to all patients during a cancer and non-cancer diagnosis and treatment

Ensures effective and timely management and response to patients who call the helpline in conjunction with the cancer support workers

Uses effective time management to prioritise and manage patient demands

Contributes to the review and updating of patient information resources used within the services

Learning and development

Attend mandatory training updates as required.

Undertake training as necessary in line with the development of the post and as agreed with the line manager as part of the personal development process.

Achieve and demonstrate agreed standards of personal and professional development within agreed timescales.

Identify own learning needs and jointly plan training requirements with your line manager

Participate in the Trusts appraisal process to discuss how your role will help deliver the best possible care to our patients and help to deliver any changes in service.

Demonstrates a commitment to the 4 pillars of advanced practice.

This job description is an outline of the role and responsibilities. From time to time due to the needs of the service, we may ask you to flexibly undertake other duties that are consistent with your role and banding, including project work, internal job rotation and absence cover.

Person Specification

Experience/ Qualifications

Essential

• UK registered Nurse
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
• Post registration or equivalent experience in Breast screening/ breast cancer
• Advanced Communication skills
• Experience at band 6/7 required in breast screening/ breast care preferably as a CNS

Desirable

• Experience of staff recruitment
• Experience of managing teams
• Experience of staff development and training

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

Essential

• Evidence of having championed diversity in previous roles (as appropriate to role).
• Evidence of having undertaken own development to improve understanding of equalities issues

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust (279)

Address

Worthing Hospital Breast Care Centre & Park Centre for Breast Care

Worthing & Brighton

BN11 2DH

Employer's website

https://www.uhsussex.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)