Lead Clinical Nurse Specialist Breast Screening
Band 8a
Main area: Clinical Nurse Specialist Breast Screening
Grade: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday-Friday)
Job ref: 213-CAX-6868256
Employer: King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: King's College Hospital
Town: London
Salary: £61,927 - £68,676 per annum including HCA
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 30/12/2024 23:59
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1.7 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.
Job overview
Kings College Hospital is looking for an enthusiastic, knowledgeable and motivated Clinical Nurse Specialist to lead the Nursing team for the South East London Breast Screening Service. The post holder will oversee and line manage the breast screening nursing team, ensuring high-quality patient care and innovative service delivery throughout the breast screening patient pathway.
The post holder will work collaboratively with the screening service leads, cancer treatment teams across South East London and breast screening health promotion specialists.
This is a demanding role therefore we are seeking a very well organised, energetic and self-motivated person who is able to manage their own time and workload. You must have current professional registration and recent relevant clinical experience. You will be required to demonstrate excellent clinical, professional, communication, IT/data analytical, and persuading/influencing skills.
If you have a strong clinical background in breast screening/breast care with exceptional leadership skills and a commitment to excellent patient care delivery we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
1. To lead the delivery of a high quality specialist nursing service for clients within the South East London Breast Screening Service.
2. To be responsible for the professional leadership of the Specialist Nurses within Breast Screening, demonstrating a supportive and flexible leadership approach.
3. To contribute to the strategic development of Breast Radiology and the National Breast Screening Programme.
4. Advise the directorate on matters pertaining to the provision of the specialist Breast Care Nursing Service across the Trust.
5. To provide professional and clinical leadership and expertise in the speciality of Breast Care Nursing within Breast Screening.
6. To set and monitor standards of care and to be responsible for a high quality patient experience through the Breast Screening trajectory.
7. To explore current practice, identifying areas for development, and planning the appropriate changes using research and experience to evaluate the outcomes.
8. To work closely with Radiology Clinical Leads and Matrons to support service delivery across the speciality.
Person specification
Qualifications
* NMC Registered Nurse
* UK recognised degree in Nursing/equivalent
* Post registration qualification in breast cancer/breast care
* Advanced Communication Skills Course
* Masters level qualification in relevant subject or equivalent professional knowledge acquired through specialist training or working towards Masters level
* Management or leadership course
Knowledge and Experience
* In-depth knowledge of the National Breast Screening Programme, discipline roles and expectations within breast screening
* Experience of working in a CNS post, band 7 or above in breast screening and/or breast care
* Proven experience and ability to assess, plan, deliver and evaluate individualised and evidence based nursing care to screening patients and patients diagnosed with breast cancer
* Proven advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of breast cancer diagnostic and treatment pathways
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* Please note that the closing date is given as a guide. On occasion, we might close a vacancy early due to a high number of applications being received.
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