# Clinical Nurse Specialist (Breast)

**Company**: HCA Healthcare UK
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Depending on experience
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Clinical Nurse Specialist (Breast) to join our Breast Care Service at The Wellington Hospital Outpatients.

This is an exciting opportunity for a registered nurse with specialist breast care knowledge and experience to provide expert clinical support to patients with benign and malignant breast conditions. You will play a pivotal role in supporting patients throughout their diagnostic, treatment and recovery journey, ensuring they receive high-quality, individualised and holistic care.

**Main duties of the job**

- Act as a specialist for patients with breast conditions and breast cancer.

- Provide expert clinical, emotional and educational support to patients and their families throughout the patient pathway.

- Coordinate care and act as a key worker, ensuring continuity of care across services.

- Attend and contribute to multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings, providing specialist nursing input into patient management plans.

- Communicate treatment plans and MDT outcomes effectively to patients and relevant healthcare professionals.

- Support patients before, during and following surgery and treatment.

- Work collaboratively with breast surgeons, oncologists, radiologists, pathologists and other healthcare professionals to deliver safe and effective care.

- Maintain accurate clinical documentation and ensure compliance with professional and organisational standards.

- Participate in service development, audit and quality improvement initiatives.

**Person Specification**

- Up-to-date knowledge of breast cancer management and treatment pathways.

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

- Ability to manage a complex caseload and prioritise workload effectively.

- Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team.

- Commitment to evidence-based practice and continuous professional development.

- Significant experience caring for patients with benign and malignant breast disease.

- Experience supporting patients throughout the breast cancer pathway, including advanced breast cancer.

- Experience working within a multidisciplinary team environment.

- Experience providing patient education and psychological support.

- Registered Nurse with current NMC registration.

- Relevant post-registration qualification in Breast Care or Cancer Nursing.

- Completed relevant postgraduate qualification at Level 6 or Level 7

## Skills

### Required
- breast cancer management
- multidisciplinary team working
- patient education
- psychological support
- NMC registration

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