Nuffield Health

Clinical Nurse Specialist - Breast Care

The closing date is 30 January 2026

Job summary

Job Description Clinical Nurse Specialist - Breast Care Guildford | Nursing | Permanent | Full time Up to £50,560 per annum depending on experience 37.5 hours per week

Main duties of the job

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

About us

Nuffield Health Guildford Hospital Nuffield Health Guildford Hospital provides high-quality healthcare working with leading Consultants to offer a range of services and treatments for preventing, diagnosing and treating a wide array of medical conditions and offer a wide range of complex surgery and services. We are proud to have received a "good" rating from the health care regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Our facilities include 49 en-suite patient bedrooms, 4 operating theatres, acute dependency and oncology units. We've been awarded the Macmillan Quality Environment Mark for cancer care and our Endoscopy service has achieved JAG accreditation. Our site is shared with an NHS Trust hospital, giving us access to their facilities. The working atmosphere is highly professional and stimulating, yet friendly and collaborative like that of a large family unit. The hospital is easily accessible from the A3 or M25 and we are located about 1.5 miles from Guildford town centre.

Date posted

07 January 2026

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£45,560 to £50,560 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

JR0093327

Job locations

Stirling Road Guildford Surrey GU2 7RF

Guildford

GU2 7RF

Job description

Job responsibilities

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. 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:

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

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. Nuffield Health Guildford Hospital Nuffield Health Guildford Hospital provides high-quality healthcare working with leading Consultants to offer a range of services and treatments for preventing, diagnosing and treating a wide array of medical conditions and offer a wide range of complex surgery and services. We are proud to have received a "good" rating from the health care regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Our facilities include 49 en-suite patient bedrooms, 4 operating theatres, acute dependency and oncology units. We've been awarded the Macmillan Quality Environment Mark for cancer care and our Endoscopy service has achieved JAG accreditation. Our site is shared with an NHS Trust hospital, giving us access to their facilities. The working atmosphere is highly professional and stimulating, yet friendly and collaborative like that of a large family unit. The hospital is easily accessible from the A3 or M25 and we are located about 1.5 miles from Guildford town centre. 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.