# Breast Clinical Nurse Specialist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/breast-clinical-nurse-specialist/3d38ae37-8664-46e6-9c89-6edab6d3f9ba - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/breast-clinical-nurse-specialist/3d38ae37-8664-46e6-9c89-6edab6d3f9ba.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Trust Headquarters, King's Mill Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Clinical nurse specialist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49387.00 to £56515.00 - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-11-02T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-20T08:57:16.001Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8344088 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8344088?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Clinical Nurse Specialist – Advanced Breast Practice to join our established Breast Services team at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. This is a senior, autonomous clinical post for an experienced breast clinician who is able to assess, investigate and manage patients across defined breast diagnostic, treatment and follow-up pathways. The successful candidate will work alongside Consultant Breast Surgeons, Breast Radiologists, Oncologists, Breast Care Nurses and the wider multidisciplinary team. Although the post is substantively badged as a Clinical Nurse Specialist, this is an advanced clinical practice role and is deliberately distinct from the traditional Breast Care Nurse role. The postholder will have direct responsibility for clinical assessment, diagnostic investigation, clinical decision-making, treatment and follow-up. Applicants must already have substantial experience in breast clinical practice and be able to demonstrate advanced assessment, diagnostic reasoning and autonomous clinical decision-making. This is not a developmental post for a nurse wishing to progress into advanced practice, and the successful candidate will be expected to undertake the clinical responsibilities of the role from appointment, subject to the Trust's usual governance and competency requirements. ### Main duties of the job To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Significant experience post registration at band 7 in breast clinical practice - assessing patients with breast symptoms, breast sepsis and managing patients with suspected or confirmed breast cancer - Advanced clinical history-taking and breast and axillary examination skills - Experience of autonomous clinical decision making - Experience of primary endocrine treatment for breast cancer - Ability to request and interpret appropriate investigations and formulate clinical management plans - Experience of nurse-led and community-based specialist clinics - Ability to recognise suspected malignancy and appropriately escalate or refer - Membership of special interest and professional group - Working within a leadership role - Change management and leadership skills - Experience of audit and service improvement **Desirable** - Multidisciplinary team working - Caseload management - Demonstrable experience of teaching / training healthcare professionals - Experience of clinical leadership within a breast cancer service - Experience contributing to workforce planning, role development or skill-mix transformation - Experience developing clinical guidelines, protocols or competency frameworks - Leadership or management qualification, or equivalent experience ### Qualifications **Essential** - NMC Level One Registered Nurse - BSc in Nursing - ENB 998 or equivalent teaching course - Evidence of post-basic specialist education - Educated to Masters level (or working towards) or formal training in advanced breast clinical assessment and examination - Non-medical prescribing (or willingness to undertake) ### Further Training **Desirable** - Motivational interviewing / counselling course / training ### Knowledge Requirements **Essential** - Excellent communication and listening skills - Specialist breast benign conditions and breast cancer knowledge and expertise - Good computer skills - Good interpersonal and organisational skills - Team player - Experience of teaching and assessing healthcare professionals **Desirable** - Research awareness - Audit methodologies ### Contractual Requirements **Essential** - Flexible approach to working - Ability to work unsupervised - Ability to travel between sites ## Documents - [benefits leaflet (pdf, 834.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2702) - [application guide (pdf, 584.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2448) - [our staff networks (pdf, 810.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2938) - [breast clinical nurse specialist (pdf, 152.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10668615) - [nursing, midwifery & ahp strategy 25-28 (pdf, 2.6mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2492) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.