Specialist Breast Care Nurse

Job responsibilities

• Provides professional clinical leadership, guidance, expert advice and support within the Breast Care Nursing team.
• Provides a specialist, continuing, supportive Breast Care Service within the hospital and community setting, offering optimum healthcare to patients, their families and carers.
• Delivers high quality, evidence based, patient centred care within clearly defined guidelines and protocols, this will improve the patients experience and meet local needs.

Qualifications

Essential

• RN with current NMC registration
• Degree/degree pathway in health-related subject or extensive experience {5 years +} as a specialist Breast Care Nurse at Band 6 level with evidence of ongoing CPD
• ENB A11 or equivalent specialist Breast Care qualification.
• Leadership course/degree module or willingness to undertake.
• Teaching qualification/mentorship course.
• Family History training or willingness to undertake

Desirable

• Demonstrate counselling skills experience/qualification
• Oncology qualification e.g. ENB237 cancer course or equivalent.
• Advanced communications skills.
• Experience in arm lymphoedema assessment.

Experience

Essential

• Significant {3+ years} post registration experience at band 6 in Breast Care (if a graduate as above)
• Evidence of professional leadership, leading to innovation in practice.
• Evidence of effective clinical leadership, actively promoting working across professional and organisational boundaries.

Desirable

• Experience of participation in outpatient clinic in this speciality.
• Evidence of involvement in policy development/guidelines.
• Experience in clinical audits

Skills

Essential

• Ability to communicate potentially unpleasant/sensitive information to patients in a variety of settings.
• Able to influence and overcome resistance through application of advanced communication skills.
• Demonstrates: Ability to manage own caseload. Ability to perform assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care. Ability to perform relevant clinic skills. Ability to develop effective interpersonal relationships with colleagues across health and social care settings.
• Basic IT skills.

Desirable

• Intermediate IT skills.
• Able to present information to professional groups.

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of professional and NHS issues and policy relating to breast disease management and implications/application to clinical practice.
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Desirable

• Experience of audit and research.
• Understanding of research management.
• Teaching and assessing knowledge and ability.

Additional

Essential

• Able to facilitate multi-site working
• Flexible approach to work.
• Speak English to an appropriate standard relevant to their role, i.e. with confidence and accuracy, using correct sentence structures and vocabulary, and without hesitation

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

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