Breast Clinical Nurse Specialist
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Sutton in Ashfield, NG17 4JLView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£49,387 to £56,515
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
2 November 2026
13 days leftJob description
Join Our Breast Services Team An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Clinical Nurse Specialist - Advanced Breast Practice to join our e...
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 breast benign conditions and breast cancer knowledge and expertise
- Good computer skills
- Good interpersonal and organisational skills
- Team player
- Experience of teaching and assessing healthcare professionals
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 formal training in advanced breast clinical assessment and examination
- Non-medical prescribing (or willingness to undertake)
Further Training
Desirable: - Motivational interviewing / counselling course / training
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience post registration at band 7 in breast clinical practice - assessing patients with breast symptoms, breast sepsis and managing patients with suspected or confirmed breast cancer
- Advanced clinical history-taking and breast and axillary examination skills
- Experience of autonomous clinical decision making
- Experience of primary endocrine treatment for breast cancer
- Ability to request and interpret appropriate investigations and formulate clinical management plans
- Experience of nurse-led and community-based specialist clinics
- Ability to recognise suspected malignancy and appropriately escalate or refer
- Membership of special interest and professional group
- Working within a leadership role
- Change management and leadership skills
- Experience of audit and service improvement
Desirable
- Multidisciplinary team working
- Caseload management
- Demonstrable experience of teaching / training healthcare professionals
- Experience of clinical leadership within a breast cancer service
- Experience contributing to workforce planning, role development or skill-mix transformation
- Experience developing clinical guidelines, protocols or competency frameworks
- Leadership or management qualification, or equivalent experience
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
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First seen
20 October 2026
Last checked
20 October 2026
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