Breast Clinical Nurse Specialist

Job description

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Job overview

Are you passionate about making a real difference in patient care? We're looking for an experienced Breast Clinical Nurse Specialist to provide leadership and guidance within the speciality. In this role, you'll be a trusted source of knowledge and support for patients, their families, and carers, as well as a key resource for our multi-professional team.

You'll play a vital part in coordinating care, ensuring patients experience seamless support throughout their journey. Your insight and expertise will help shape and develop our service to meet the evolving needs of the people we care for.

This is a great opportunity to demonstrate your experience, lead with confidence, and share your knowledge through education and mentorship. You'll also drive improvements in care standards through audits and research, and carry out specialist clinical procedures within your scope of practice.

Main duties of the job

Offer holistic support to patients diagnosed via both the Symptomatic Breast Service.

Act as a support mechanism to patients in their treatment choice and entry into clinical trials, while maintaining research-based practice.

Provide education and advice to patients and their relatives in this patient group.

Know how to resource appropriate information literature for this patient group.

Attend weekly multi-disciplinary breast meetings.

Under the direction of the Breast Care Nurses to assist with the development and implementation of integrated care pathways.

Provide an accessible telephone contact service for Breast patients concerned about their symptoms or treatment.

Work with colleagues to maintain a comprehensive service which provides optimum care for patients with Breast disease.

Act as the patients' advocate in association with relevant members of the multi-disciplinary team, when informed discussion may assist them in understanding and deciding upon treatment plans.

Ensure that the rights of the patient are respected and assist in the provision of information enabling informed decisions to be made about their care.

Working for our organisation

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Are you looking for an exciting Breast Clinical Nurse Specialist role using your unique qualities, then we want to hear from you.

For full details about this varied and rewarding role, please see attached job description.

We look forward to your application.

Please be aware that we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a suitable number of applications.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered Nurse on appropriate part of the NMC register

Desirable criteria

• Post registration qualification relevant to the specialism
• communication course

Knowledge and Experience

Essential criteria

• Two years post- registration Experience

Desirable criteria

• Previous experience working in an acute healthcare setting

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is the only acute hospital provider in the Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System (ICS), which is a system of health and care partners working together for our local population.

Within Mid and South Essex there are 149 GP practices, operating from over 200 sites, forming 27 Primary Care Networks and one Ambulance Trust. There are also three main community and mental health service providers who work together through a community collaborative.

We collaborate with other valuable partners, including three Healthwatch organisations, nine voluntary and community sector organisations and three top tier local authorities, with seven district, borough and city councils, as well as our local universities.

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