Breast Clinical Nurse Specialist

Go back East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 17 March 2026

We are looking for a Clinical Nurse Specialist with experience of working within breast services competent in breast examination techniques to join a busy and friendly team at Ipswich Breast Care Centre.

You will undertake various roles within the nursing team, whilst supporting patients through their treatment pathway. As an experienced breast examiner, you will be working within clinics such as breast pain, rapid assessment, PCFU, wound clinics and offering patients telephone advice. This is a key position in the breast multidisciplinary team.

The successful candidate will be a dedicated and knowledgeable practitioner, working within their professional boundaries to provide high-quality, patient-centered care.

• Act as keyworker to case load of patients with breast cancer within agreed local and national policies and guidelines, and provide a telephone number for patients as a point of contact
• Act as the patient's advocate, using highly developed communication and negotiating skills when informed discussion may lead to decisions being made concerning treatment options for breast cancer.
• Contribute to the effective management of inpatient and outpatient care. This encompasses surgical treatment through to patient centred or individualised follow up
• Attend and play a central role at the multi-disciplinary meetings acting as patient advocate when liaising and collaborating with other professionals to promote high quality and individualised patient care.
• Communicate highly complex and sensitive issues proficiently and effectively with patients, and their carers under difficult circumstances
• By assessing holistic needs, recognise actual and potential psychological problems patients may have relating to breast cancer, its treatments and body image and provide relevant emotional and informational support and education, ensuring that the highest quality of individualised patient care is delivered
• Identify risk factors for developing anxiety and depression, respond appropriately with signposting and referring to other agencies if indicated

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you

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For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

• Registered Nurse (level
  1)
• 1st level degree in a relevant subject
• Relevant specialist long course in breast care at degree level
• Evidence of mentoring and coaching
• Advanced communication course
• Psychological level 2 training
• Evidence of working at Masters degree level
• Advanced Communication skills
• Clinical breast examination course or willingness to undertake
• Trai…