Band 6 Breast Nurse Specialist
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Nursing
Healthcare Nursing, Clinical Nurse Specialist, RN Nurse
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
Band 6 Breast Nurse SpecialistThe closing date is 15 November 2026
The Surgical Care group is looking to recruit a dedicated and highly skilled Band 6 Breast Nurse Specialist who is also personalised stratified Cancer follow up CNS to support the Breast pathway.
You would need to be an experienced nurse with experience in the breast field ,acting within your professional boundaries and willing to develop your skills. As a Breast clinical nurse specialist you will play a vital role in delivering specialised nursing care to the patients with Breast conditions. Your expertise will contribute to a high quality care and positive patient experience.
The ideal candidate would have excellent communication skills both verbally and in written. You will be proactive in ensuring that your clinical expertise is up to date to contribute as a role model to the service. The post holder will be a member of the Trust's Breast team and undertake the role of the specialist Nurse supporting and facilitating the patients journey.
You would be working in a collaborative manner, providing clear decision making skills in consultation with medical and nursing staff. The post holder will ensure that they protect and promote patient safety at all times. You would effectively liaise with multidisciplinary teams and service maintaining a rapport to ensure working relationships are maintained with other departments.
Demonstrate personal strength and effectiveness with professional behaviours under stressful and difficult situations.
Main duties of the jobCarry out planned care for a group of patients within independent clinical setting.
Ensure the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of evidence based individualised patient care.
Perform telephone triage of remotely monitored patients, escalating to the clinical service, as appropriate.
Using protocols ensure the appropriate investigations are ordered and performed.
Managing clinical risk relating to individuals, through the use of RMS tracking to a group of patients care, reporting issues to appropriate senior staff.
Review and act on all investigations requested via service.
About usWe're an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with.
They are benefit ting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission.
We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen's and get rid of corridor care.
We're proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We're also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance.
We run a Women's Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The majority of our 8,400 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.
Person Specification Education/ Qualifications- Registered Nurse
- Level 2 communication training.
- Experience working with the Personalised Care Agenda
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.
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
£45,953 to £54,254 a year
Per Annum HCA inclusive
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