Breast Clinical Nurse Specialist

Job summary

The Breast Care Nurse Specialist is a pivotal member of the multidisciplinary Breast Service Team at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust, providing expert, compassionate, and patient-centred care to individuals diagnosed with both malignant and non-malignant breast conditions.

The role combines advanced clinical expertise with strong leadership, care coordination, and advocacy skills to support patients and their families throughout every stage of the treatment and recovery pathway. Working autonomously and collaboratively within the wider healthcare team, the post holder delivers specialist assessments, nurse-led clinics, education, counselling, and psychosocial support while ensuring care is evidence-based, holistic, and tailored to individual needs.

The role also contributes to service improvement, clinical governance, education, and the ongoing development of high-quality breast care services in line with national standards and best practice.

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

About us

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

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