Job Description
Main area: Breast Care
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract: Fixed term: 9 months (Maternity Leave Cover)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 213-CAY-6257640-A
Employer: King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: King's College Hospital
Town: London
Salary: £51,488 - £57,802 per annum, inc HCA
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 12/09/2024 23:59
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1.7 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London.
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen for an experienced nurse to provide maternity leave cover for a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Breast Cancer Care. As a breast care nurse, you will be supporting patients from diagnosis, throughout both surgical and oncological treatment modalities through to survivorship. You will offer patients information, education, and psychological support. You will act as an autonomous practitioner in nurse-led surgical, health and wellbeing, and stratified follow-up clinics.
You will need to display expert communication skills and offer care in a kind and compassionate manner. You will have the ability to demonstrate your knowledge of breast cancer, its treatments and side effects.
The post will offer you the support of a patient-focused team in which you will be encouraged to develop your knowledge and skills.
Main duties of the job
- To further develop the breast cancer service (including optimizing patient pathways, improving the patient experience, developing proactive support models for patients).
- To assist in the facilitation of the ongoing breast cancer support groups.
- To independently manage a caseload of patients/clients.
- To ensure that patients and their families are fully informed and supported by providing clinical and social support.
- To lead the development of evidence-based clinical nursing practice in line with current research and guidelines.
- To establish clear lines of communication with primary healthcare teams in order to increase knowledge and facilitate the care of this group of people in the community.
- To work with the other members of the breast care nursing team, and to provide cross cover when required.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
- NMC Level 1 or Level 15 Registered Nurse
- A clinical expert either through formal qualification (Degree/Masters) and/or extensive clinical experience pertinent to the area.
Knowledge and Experience
- Ability to impart complex information to patients, relatives and carers, with different levels of understanding.
- Strong leadership skills.
- Proven experience of service development.
- Experience of running research and audit programmes.
Skills and Competencies
- Experience of delivering presentations.
- Advanced clinical assessment skills or willingness to develop these.
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