Nursing

Clinical Nurse Specialist - Breast care

Clinical Nurse Specialist - Breast Care

Guildford | Nursing | Permanent | Full timeUp to £50,560 per annum depending on experience37.5 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.

The opportunity
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:

• 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

The person
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.

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. 

Rewards & Benefits

Helping you be and feel your best.

Annual Leave

25 days + Bank Holidays, increasing to 27 days after 5 years and to 30 days after 10 years of service.

Nuffield Health Healthcare Plan

Membership is free for employees and you can add partner and dependants at your own cost.

*eligibility criteria applies.

Financial Wellbeing

A range of employee benefits through a Financial Wellbeing provider – including affordable loans repaid through salary, access to your pay when you need it, simple savings, a government Help to Save scheme and money insights.

Cycle to Work Scheme

Save money, get fit and reduce your carbon footprint by taking advantage of this tax-efficient scheme to get a new bike.

Gym Membership

Free membership to any Nuffield Health gym, plus discounted memberships for family members.

Online GP

Discounted access to secure video and telephone GP consultations and a suite of healthcare management tools, provided by digital healthcare company Doctor Care Anywhere.

Emotional Wellbeing Support

Access to our Emotional Wellbeing services and discounted virtual, telephone, and face-to-face treatment.

Healthcare Scheme

Provides you with access to treatment in our own hospitals (or other Nuffield Health approved facilities).

Overtime

For clinical roles grade 9 and below, the overtime is at a standard rate of pay. For unsocial hours, you’ll be paid an additional enhancement to your salary at the following rates: Nights Hours worked between 7pm and 7am on any day of the week, 30% of basic hourly rate. Weekends Hours worked between 7am and 7pm on a Saturday or Sunday, 20% of basic hourly rate. Bank Holidays Hours worked between midnight and midnight of a bank holiday, 100% of basic hourly rate.

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Hints & Tips

Help with your application.

Once you’ve found the right role for you, you can apply online. All you need to do at this stage is submit your CV, a covering email, and a few personal details.

Our recruitment team screens all of the applications we receive. So, if they see that you’ve got the right sort of skills and experience needed for the role, your details will be passed on to the relevant hiring manager. Then, if you fit all the criteria at this stage, you’ll be invited to take part in a video, telephone or face-to-face interview.

CV

Think about the skills and qualities asked for in the job description and show how you’ve applied those same skills and qualities in other roles. Focus on the things that will make us want to see more of you.

Covering email

Your CV will contain details about why you’d be a good fit for the role, but it’s well worth adding a short, snappy paragraph pulling out the two or three most compelling reasons as to why you’d be perfect for the job in your covering email..

Video interview

The video interview lasts 15-20 minutes if you get to this stage. On the day, look the part, be aware of your surroundings and practice your answers to feel prepared. Most of all, relax and be yourself.

DBS Checks

Some of our roles require a DBS check and they are processed through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) as part of the recruitment process. These checks are to assist employers in making safer recruitment decisions. However, a check is just one part of robust recruitment practice.

Documents

You could be asked to provide proof of vaccinations as part of our Occupational Health pre-employment screening. We know it can be time consuming to get this information if you don’t already have it to hand, so we encourage you to start preparing this information to avoid any delays to the onboarding process.

Your current studies

If you are currently undertaking any strudies, education or apprenticeships, its worth noting there are some training provider we're not partnered with, and therefore potentially unable to support your continued learning. Ensure you share this at interview and for queries contact psc@nuffieldhealth.com

Feedback on applications

Due to the volume of applications we receive we are unable to provide individual feedback from an inital application.