Clinical Nurse Specialist in Breast Care
Band 6
Main area: Breast Clinical Nurse Specialist Grade Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 27 hours per week (no weekend cover required)
Job ref: 339-ANJ5315-A
Site: Weston General Hospital (cover at Southmead Hospital as required)
Town: Weston-Super-Mare
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 05/01/2025 23:59
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Job overview
Clinical Nurse Specialist in Breast Care, NHS, Southmead Hospital (Band 6) + excellent NHS benefits
There is an exciting opportunity to join our small, dedicated team of Breast Care Clinical Nurse Specialists at North Bristol NHS Trust. The Clinical Nurse Specialist will be a key member of the North Bristol Trust Breast care CNS team that provides services across Southmead Hospital and Weston General Hospital.
They will work as an important member of the Cancer multidisciplinary Team within North Bristol NHS Trust collaborating with a range of Health care providers in the local community and across the regional Network. The post holder will provide high quality, specialist, expert nursing care and support for patients with a cancer diagnosis throughout the care pathway.
The post holder will utilize skills of clinical expertise, education and management to ensure a seamless service for patients, carers and staff. They will provide advice, support and information from the time of referral through to diagnosis and throughout the cancer pathway.
Based at Weston General Hospital site you will have the opportunity to work between both surgical centres, at Southmead and Weston, enabling you to feel part of the whole Breast care service.
You will get a fantastic opportunity to develop your skills and clinical practice in an important and well-supported specialty as a key part of a close-working multi-disciplinary team.
Main duties of the job
1. To provide highly specialist nursing care for a patient case load ensuring everyone receives a high standard of care, working to co-ordinate care and provide easy access to services and ongoing physical and emotional support for patients and their families.
2. To participate in clinical audit and research.
3. To promote a culture of evidence-based practice.
4. To be involved in health promotion.
5. To plan the provision of day-to-day organisational tasks in the absence of band 7 breast cancer CNS.
6. To participate in quality improvement, using improvement methodology to motivate and reassure staff through negotiation and training, to facilitate service improvement.
7. To act as an autonomous practitioner, independent planning, implementing and evaluating a program of care achieved through systematic and holistic assessment skills and personalised care planning including the management of wounds and seroma care.
8. Demonstrate highly developed communication skills to provide guidance, advice and support to the individual and the carer regarding their holistic care.
9. To demonstrate the ability to work well within the team and maintain professional relationships and communication.
10. To lead on the implementation of clinical competency, supervision and assessment framework in place to assure a consistently high standard of nursing care for cancer patients.
11. To collate and record quantitative and qualitative data that provides evidence of productivity, outcomes and quality through audit and research.
Working for our organisation
North Bristol NHS Trust employs over 12,000 staff providing healthcare to the residents of Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset from our award-winning hospital building at Southmead. We are the regional Major Trauma Centre, and an internationally recognized Centre of excellence in a range of services and major specialties.
Our vision is that by enabling our teams to be the best that they can be, we will provide exceptional healthcare, personally delivered.
We commit to treating each patient as an individual with respect and dignity, aiming to deliver excellent clinical outcomes and a first-class experience for everyone who uses our services.
North Bristol NHS Trust values all people as individuals. We aim to be an anti-discriminatory organisation and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We welcome applicants from all underrepresented groups.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be responsible for working collaboratively with a range of health-care providers providing care and support for patients with a diagnosis of breast cancer in both the primary and metastatic settings. A responsibility of the role will be to ensure patients receive specialist information, support, advice and education to both them and their family from the point of diagnosis throughout the cancer pathway on treatment/management of their cancer.
Please refer to the job description for detailed responsibilities of the role.
Although if having read the job description and you would like to understand more about the role please do get in touch for an informal enquiry.
Person specification
Experience and qualifications
* Registered General Nurse/Current NMC registration
* Degree level qualification in relevant subject
* Evidence of formal ongoing professional development
* Significant post-registration experience in cancer nursing or breast care
* Evidence of study at Masters level or willingness to work towards
* Specialist training in relevant cancer specialty
* Relevant teaching, mentoring and presentation experience
If you apply for this vacancy and have not received a communication from North Bristol NHS Trust within three weeks of the closing date, please assume that on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.
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North Bristol NHS Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
The successful applicant(s) will normally commence at the minimum of the scale unless they have previous NHS service at the same band. Progression through the scale is by annual increments.
At North Bristol Trust (NBT), we know diverse and inclusive environments lead to happier and healthier teams and improved patient care and outcomes. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are currently underrepresented in NBT’s workforce at Band 8a and above. These include people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people and LGBTQIA+ people.
Please note that stringent pre-employment checks are undertaken on all successful applicants prior to commencement in post.
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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Caroline Eden
Job title: Lead Clinical Nurse Specialist, Breast care
Email address: caroline.eden@nbt.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 0117 4147018
Additional information:
Siny Thankachan
Clinical Matron
Breast care, Southmead Hospital
Email: siny.thankachan@nbt.nhs.uk
Ext: 43239
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