Clinical Nurse Specialist in Breast Care

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

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.

To participate in clinical audit and research.

To promote culture of evidence based practice.

To be involved in health promotion.

To plan the provision of day to day organisational tasks in the absence of band 7 breast cancer CNS.

To participate in quality improvement, using improvement methodology to motivate and reassure staff through negotiation and training, to facilitate service improvement.

To act as autonomous practitioner, independent planning, implementing and evaluating  program of care achieved through systematic and holistic assessment skills and personalised care planning including the management of wounds and seroma care.

Demonstrate highly  developed communication skills to provide guidance, advice and support to the individual and the carer regarding their holistic care.

To demonstrate the ability to work well within the team and maintain professional relationships and communication.

To lead on implementation of clinical competency, supervision and assessment framework in place to assure a consistently high standard of nursing care for cancer patients.

To collate and record quantitative and qualitative data that provides evidence of productivity, outcomes and quality through audit and research.

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 detail 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