Breast Clinical Nurse Specialist
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Sutton-in-Ashfield, NG17 4JL
Salary
£49,387 to £56,515
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
13 September 2026
12 days left
Job description
Join Our Breast Services Team An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experiencedClinical Nurse Specialist (CNS)to join the Breast Services team atS...
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
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Knowledge Requirements
Essential
- Excellent communication and listening skills
- Specialist knowledge and expertise
- Good computer skills
- Good interpersonal and organisational skills
- Team player
- Team player Demonstrable teaching skills
Desirable
- Research awareness
- Audit methodologies
Qualifications
Essential
- NMC Level One Registered Nurse
- BSc in Nursing
- ENB 998 or equivalent teaching course
- Evidence of post-basic specialist education
- Educated to Masters level (or working towards) or equivalent demonstrable experience and learning within breast services
- Non-medical prescribing (or willingness to undertake)
Further Training
Desirable
- Motivational interviewing / counselling course / training
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience post registration at band 7 with experience in working with patients in breast services
- Membership of special interest and professional group
- Working within a leadership role
- Change management and leadership skills
Desirable
- Multidisciplinary team working
- Caseload management
- Demonstrable experience of teaching / training healthcare professionals
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Flexible approach to working
- Ability to work unsupervised
- Ability to travel between sites
How to apply
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Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
28 August 2026
Last checked
1 September 2026
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