Senior Breast Care Nurse

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a qualified and experience Breast Care nurse to join our team in breast surgery as a Senior Nurse Specialist. We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Nurse to join our team as a lead. This is a role which will be primarily focussed on supporting patients once on the patient initiated follow up pathway, however, there will be some job planned low risk and one-stop clinics.
We are looking for a dynamic experienced individual who is productive and patient focused, and as centred as us in our purpose to treat our patients with exceptional care. The individual will need excellent communication skills to network and interact with staff and colleagues at all levels. You will need experience in supporting patients at diagnosis and through the cancer pathway and post treatment.
We are seeking to maintain and expand our team of Clinical Nurse Specialist's as we move into an exciting new future. This is a great opportunity to work within a fantastic team where you will be working very closely with Nurse Specialists, Doctors, Consultants, Radiologists and the wider MDT.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received, This exciting role will give the post-holder the opportunity to contribute to the specialist care and management of patients, mainly in the outpatient setting, who have been referred with a suspected diagnosis, diagnosed or treated for cancer. This team are passionate about using their expertise to offer a very high standard of care and emotional support to patients.
A period of supernumerary practice will be given and your development will be through a competency-based framework which you will complete whilst in post. There will be plenty of opportunities to develop your knowledge and skills with support for on-going professional development to advance your clinical skills and practice.

Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England., To assess patients, plan and implement care including emotional and psychological needs.
Provide education and training to other staff.
Within the focus of Specialist Practice ( Breast Care):
Assist in specialist nursing procedures and clinical support for this
designated group of patients.
As a member of the breast sub unit will be involved in the planning, delivery and evaluation of the service and the specialist nursing care provided, for this designated group of patients. This input is maintained throughout the patient journey from initial assessment, throughout surgical treatment and until discharge following patient initiated follow up.
Assist in specialist education and training to members of the multidisciplinary team, nursing colleagues and others external to the organisation.
Participate in research and clinical audit in own specialist area of practice.
This post is both a senior clinical post and a leadership role.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams/departments and across organisational boundaries.
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
+ Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
+ Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
+ A range of flexible working opportunities
+ Generous annual leave and pension scheme
+ Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
+ Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
+ On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
+ Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country's top performing NHS trusts - rated 'outstanding' overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people's homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise - a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people's lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
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