Band 6 Breast Nurse SpecialistNHS

Job summary

The Surgical Care group is looking to recruit a dedicated and highly skilled Band 6 Breast Nurse Specialist who is also personalised stratified Cancer follow up CNS to support the Breast pathway.

You would need to be an experienced nurse with experience in the breast field ,acting within your professional boundaries and willing to develop your skills. As a Breast clinical nurse specialist 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.

The ideal candidate would 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. The post holder will be a member of the Trust's Breast team and undertake the role of the specialist Nurse 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. The post holder will ensure that they protect and promote patient safety at all times. You would effectively liaise with multidisciplinary teams and service maintaining a rapport to ensure working relationships are maintained with other departments.

Demonstrate personal strength and effectiveness with professional behaviours under stressful and difficult situations.

Main duties of the job

Carry out planned care for a group of patients within independent clinical setting.

Ensure the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of evidence based individualised patient care.

Perform telephone triage of remotely monitored patients, escalating to the clinical service, as appropriate.

Using protocols ensure the appropriate investigations are ordered and performed.

Managing clinical risk relating to individuals, through the use of RMS tracking to a group of patients care, reporting issues to appropriate senior staff.

Review and act on all investigations requested via service.

Job description

For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.

Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.

Applications should be made online, however, queries regarding the application process or assistance with completion of the form (for applicants with a disability) can be made to Rachna Srivastava, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 ext. 5904. Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details below

About us

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.