Main area Breast Cancer Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 30 hours per week (Monday to Friday) Job ref 241-428-S-25
Employer Bolton NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Bolton NHS Foundation Trust Town Bolton Salary £47,810 - £54,710 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 28/10/2025 23:59
Macmillan Breast Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
Part time 30 hours per week, permanent post.
The successful candidate, in partnership with the other existing post holders, will have a key leadership specialist role at a senior level to support the organisation in the delivery of breast cancer care for patients and their families.
The post holder will be keen to face challenges, be well organised and enthusiastic in participating with service development through audit and peer review. Helping to drive and sustain new initiatives to meet local and national standards, as well as ensuring care meets our own Trust values.
Main duties of the job
You will play a fundamental role in leading collaboratively on the development and effective delivery of a specialist breast cancer nursing service to reflect the evolving health care agenda developing and maintaining robust working relationships across primary, secondary and tertiary care to ensure a coordinated patient pathway.
As a Breast Care Clinical Nurse Specialist you will provide ongoing support to patients through diagnostics and treatment of breast cancer.
Working for our organisation
We have a rare and exciting opportunity for an experienced Breast Care nurse to join our existing skilled nursing team within a comprehensive Breast MDT offering a range of surgical and oncological treatments for patients diagnosed with breast cancer.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Breast Care Clinical Nurse Specialist will be responsible for the provision and development of a high quality, cost effective specialist Breast Care nursing service that meets the needs of patients in accordance with national and local policies and initiatives.
Assess, treat and review patients with a diagnosis of Breast cancer providing appropriate disease related highly specialist advice, information and support and promote health education.
The post holder will be expected to carry out specialist nursing and clinical procedures and refer patients appropriately and timely to other service providers.
Act as a link between primary, secondary and tertiary care, assist in the development and delivery of staff education programmes, ongoing advice and clinical supervision to other health professionals.
Accept referrals from other health care professionals; work unsupervised and manage their own clinics.
Person specification
Qualifications/Training
* First level Registered Nurse
* First level Degree in Nursing/Health subject
* Evidence of CPD
* Teaching qualification
* Level 2 psychological training
* Non medical prescribing or willingness to work toward
* MSc level learning
* Leadership/Management Qualification
* clinical exam skills
Experience
* Experience at band 6
* Breast cancer experience
* Audit and research
* Nurse led clinics
* Across organisational boundaries
Skills
* IT literate
* Advanced communications skills
* Leadership and motivational skills
* Implementing change
* Dealing with complaints
Knowledge
* Upto date with breast cancer care
* Governance awareness
* Quality Improvement
The vision of this Trust is to be recognised by the people of Bolton and beyond as an excellent provider of health and care services and a great place to work. We are striving to attract, recruit and retain high calibre skilled staff which reflect our communities. We are an inclusive employer who trains and develops our staff in a positive learning environment.
We thrive on cultivating cultural architecture, if you have the right skills, attitudes and behaviours, in line with our Trust values, we welcome and appreciate the diversity you bring to our organisation.
We offer a wide range of staff benefits please click on the link below to see what current benefits we have.
From time to time we may need to close a vacancy early when in receipt of a sufficient number of applications. If you are interested in this post and wish to be considered, we strongly advise you to complete and submit your application as soon as possible.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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 Louise Porritt Job title Macmillan Deputy Lead Cancer Nurse Email address Louise.Porritt@boltonft.nhs.uk Telephone number 01204 390390
Additional information
Sarah Taylor and Vicki ODonohue Breast Care Nurses
Victoria.Odonohue@boltonft.nhs.uk
Sarah.Taylor@boltonft.nhs.uk
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