Job overview

The Surgical Care group is looking to recruit a dedicated and highly skilled Band 7 Breast  Nurse Specialist to support the Breast pathway , in main supporting the Breast Mastalgia pathway.  

You would need to be an experienced Breast nurse acting within your professional boundaries and willing to develop your skills. As a Breast CNS you will play a vital role in delivering specialised nursing care to the patients with Breast conditions. Your expertise will contribute to a high quality care and positive patient experience.

You should have excellent communication skills both verbally and in written. You will be proactive in ensuring that your clinical expertise is up to date to contribute as a role model to the service. You will be a member of the Trust's Breast team and undertake the role of the CNS supporting and facilitating the patients journey. You would be working in a collaborative manner, providing clear decision making skills in consultation with medical and nursing staff. You will ensure that they protect and promote patient safety at all times.

Although this position is a 12 months fixed-term contract, the actual contract duration will be adjusted to account for the time taken to advertise the post, complete the hiring process, and finalise pre-employment checks. This means the contract will begin when the candidate starts the role and may be slightly shorter than 12 months

Main duties of the job

You will work as an integral member of the Multidisciplinary Team within Barking Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust. You will acknowledge and provide the overall responsibility for the provision of specialist nursing advice and support to patients throughout their treatment pathway, predominantly focusing on the Breast Mastalgia pathway. You will be provided with the support to achieve the clinical leadership, coordination and the delivery and development One Stop Breast Service, Breast Pain Service, Breast Follow up Clinics and if desired Breast Care Nurse service provision alongside the current lead specialist nurse. Support will be provided in order for the applicant to achieve the clinical skills necessary for initial patient consultation, clinical assessment, radiology investigation requesting.
You will be supported to be able to provide expert clinical advice and support to clinical staff within the organisation and primary services on the management of patients requiring breast care and treatment. 

You would effectively liaise with multidisciplinary teams and service maintaining a good rapport to ensure excellent working relationships are maintained with other departments. Demonstrate personal strength and effectiveness with professional behaviour under stressful and difficult situations. 

Working for our organisation

We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with. 

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission. 

We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care. 

We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance. 

We run a Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.  

The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.