The closing date is 24 January 2026
Salary: £38,682 to £46,580 a year per annum
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our breast cancer nursing team. The role involves supporting the Breast Care Clinical Nurse Specialists in delivering high-quality, holistic care to patients with breast cancer, as well as their relatives and carers. This support spans the entire pathway–from diagnosis through treatment, survivorship, and metastatic disease.
Job responsibilities
1. Ensure that a high personal profile is maintained with staff and patients and contribute personally to the delivery of direct patient care.
2. Develop nursing practice skills, competence and advanced practice within the area of responsibility.
3. Act as a professional role model and provide facilitative and effective clinical leadership
4. To be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care for patients with breast cancer, in line with research based evidence.
5. Develop own knowledge and competence in breast cancer care in a demonstrable and evidence based practice base
6. To attend and be a core member of Breast MDT meeting in accordance the national guidance.
7. To manage own workload across a wide range of specialist activities which includes planning throughout the patient pathway, and directly liaising with other healthcare professionals and agencies.
8. To facilitate the total patient experience, co-ordinating the medical and nursing care of the patient, referring concerns to the consultant as necessary.
9. To provide psychological and emotional support, advice, counselling, information and education to all breast cancer patients, their partners and families during diagnosis treatment and surveillance periods.
10. Use the electronic holistic needs assessment tool to assess support required for individual patients, pre-treatment, end of treatment and provide a care plan to meet the patients concerns
11. Provide highly specialised direct clinical care to patients with a breast cancer, giving specialist advice and support to nursing staff to ensure ongoing care provision.
12. Promote patient self-management, undertaking risk stratification to determine those who can self-manage, following appropriate education, those who will need guided support to self manage and those who will require on-going, face to face support, as per national and local guidance.
13. To undertake End of Treatment Summaries in an End of treatment clinic.
14. Provide support as required for patients with recurrent or progressive disease and referring to other appropriate specialities.
15. Give advice and psychological support to patients undergoing Radiotherapy or Chemotherapy, and referring to other appropriate specialities.
16. Ensure attendance at surgical, and oncology clinics as requested by medical or nursing staff, or patients and their families.
17. To maintain accurate documentation in nursing and medical records for all inpatients and those attending specialised nurse led clinics
18. To ensure consultants and GPs are informed of patients progress, who attend clinic
19. In partnership with cancer services, maintain a data-base of all breast cancer activity and audit effectiveness on a regular basis.
20. To participate in an annual review of patient information for breast cancer services involving all members of the multi-disciplinary team.
Qualifications
Essential
- registered nurse
- Mentorship or teaching qualification
- Evidence of continuous Professional development
Desirable
- Degree in nurse related speciality or working towards
- Advanced communication skills
- IRMER Qualified
Experience
Essential
- Substantial clinical experience within acute hospital setting
- Working collaboratively across professions, organisations and services
- teaching staff/ patients/relatives within the working environment
Desirable
- Expereince within the speciality of breast care and/or oncology
- Participation in service development
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of professional and NHS issues.
- knowledge and application of Clinical Governance
- knowledge of Clinical audit and research
- Knowledge of NHS IT Systems
Desirable
- knowledge of oncology, breast care and research within the specialist field
Skills
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Able to prioritise, organise and manage own workload and work with minimal supervision.
- Able to be a positive and effective team worker in the multidisciplinary team.
- Able to analyse complex patient conditions and take appropriate action
- Able to perform assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of specialist care
- Intermediate IT skills
Desirable
- Able to analyse data and provide and present written reports
- Team Leadership & motivational skills
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).