• Job Description

  Req#: C9418-26-0275?language=en&page=951&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our breast cancer nursing team. In this role, you will support the Breast Care Clinical Nurse Specialists in providing high-quality, holistic care to patients with breast cancer, as well as their relatives and carers. Your support will span the entire patient pathway--from diagnosis and treatment through survivorship and metastatic disease.

  Main duties of the job

  Main duties of the role

  • Work collaboratively with all members of the MDT to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate evidence-based care for individuals accessing the breast cancer service, ensuring a seamless and patient-centred experience.

  • Maintain high standards of clinical care for patients with breast cancer through strong professional leadership, advanced clinical knowledge, and specialist skills.

  • Deliver a range of nurse-led clinics, providing specialised care and support for breast cancer patients, and refer to consultants or nurse-led follow-up pathways as appropriate.

  About us

  Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

  We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.

  Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job.

  Details

  Date posted

  15 March 2026

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 6

  Salary

  £38,682 to £46,580 a year per annum

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Part-time

  Reference number

  418-NUR59512-CW

  Job locations

  Bedford Hospital South Wing

  Kempston road

  Bedford

  MK42 9DJ

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  1. Maintain a visible and professional presence with staff and patients, contributing directly to highquality patient care.

  2. Develop nursing skills, competence, and advanced practice within your area of responsibility.

  3. Act as a professional role model and provide effective, facilitative clinical leadership.

  4. Take responsibility for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care programmes for patients with breast cancer, in line with evidencebased practice.

  5. Continue to develop your knowledge and competence in breast cancer care, demonstrating an evidencebased approach.

  6. Attend and participate as a core member of the Breast MDT meeting in accordance with national guidance.

  7. Manage your own workload across a wide range of specialist activities, including planning throughout the patient pathway and liaising directly with other healthcare professionals and agencies.

  8. Support the overall patient experience by coordinating medical and nursing care, and escalating concerns to the consultant when required.

  9. Provide psychological and emotional support, advice, counselling, information, and education to breast cancer patients, their partners, and families throughout diagnosis, treatment, and followup.

  10. Use the electronic Holistic Needs Assessment tool to identify individual patient support needs before treatment, at the end of treatment, and develop care plans to address their concerns.

  Please refer to the attached JD file.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  1. Maintain a visible and professional presence with staff and patients, contributing directly to highquality patient care.

  2. Develop nursing skills, competence, and advanced practice within your area of responsibility.

  3. Act as a professional role model and provide effective, facilitative clinical leadership.

  4. Take responsibility for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care programmes for patients with breast cancer, in line with evidencebased practice.

  5. Continue to develop your knowledge and competence in breast cancer care, demonstrating an evidencebased approach.

  6. Attend and participate as a core member of the Breast MDT meeting in accordance with national guidance.

  7. Manage your own workload across a wide range of specialist activities, including planning throughout the patient pathway and liaising directly with other healthcare professionals and agencies.

  8. Support the overall patient experience by coordinating medical and nursing care, and escalating concerns to the consultant when required.

  9. Provide psychological and emotional support, advice, counselling, information, and education to breast cancer patients, their partners, and families throughout diagnosis, treatment, and followup.

  10. Use the electronic Holistic Needs Assessment tool to identify individual patient support needs before treatment, at the end of treatment, and develop care plans to address their concerns.

  Please refer to the attached JD file.

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • registered nurse
  • Mentorship or teaching qualification
  • Evidence of continuous Professional development

  Desirable

  • Degree in nurse related speciality or working towards
  • Advanced communication skills
  • IRMER Qualified

  Experience

  Essential

  • Substantial clinical experience within acute hospital setting
  • Working collaboratively across professions, organisations and services
  • teaching staff/ patients/relatives within the working environment

  Desirable

  • Expereince within the speciality of breast care and/or oncology
  • Participation in service development

  Knowledge

  Essential

  • Knowledge of professional and NHS issues.
  • knowledge and application of Clinical Governance
  • knowledge of Clinical audit and research
  • Knowledge of NHS IT Systems

  Desirable

  • knowledge of oncology, breast care and research within the specialist field

  Skills

  Essential

  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
  • Able to prioritise, organise and manage own workload and work with minimal supervision.
  • Able to be a positive and effective team worker in the multidisciplinary team.
  • Able to analyse complex patient conditions and take appropriate action
  • Able to perform assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of specialist care
  • Intermediate IT skills

  Desirable

  • Able to analyse data and provide and present written reports
  • Team Leadership & motivational skills

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • registered nurse
  • Mentorship or teaching qualification
  • Evidence of continuous Professional development

  Desirable

  • Degree in nurse related speciality or working towards
  • Advanced communication skills
  • IRMER Qualified

  Experience

  Essential

  • Substantial clinical experience within acute hospital setting
  • Working collaboratively across professions, organisations and services
  • teaching staff/ patients/relatives within the working environment

  Desirable

  • Expereince within the speciality of breast care and/or oncology
  • Participation in service development

  Knowledge

  Essential

  • Knowledge of professional and NHS issues.
  • knowledge and application of Clinical Governance
  • knowledge of Clinical audit and research
  • Knowledge of NHS IT Systems

  Desirable

  • knowledge of oncology, breast care and research within the specialist field

  Skills

  Essential

  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
  • Able to prioritise, organise and manage own workload and work with minimal supervision.
  • Able to be a positive and effective team worker in the multidisciplinary team.
  • Able to analyse complex patient conditions and take appropriate action
  • Able to perform assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of specialist care
  • Intermediate IT skills

  Desirable

  • Able to analyse data and provide and present written reports
  • Team Leadership & motivational skills

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Additional information

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Bedford Hospital South Wing

  Kempston road

  Bedford

  MK42 9DJ

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.bedfordshirehospitals.nhs.uk/working-here/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Bedford Hospital South Wing

  Kempston road

  Bedford

  MK42 9DJ

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.bedfordshirehospitals.nhs.uk/working-here/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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