Breast Clinical Nurse Specialist
| Posting date: | 02 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | £46,419.00 to £63,176.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £46419.00 - £63176.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 December 2025 |
| Location: | London, N19 5NF |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9220-25-0834 |
Summary
To act as point of contact and offer to be the Breast keyworker for patients and their families and carer. Ensure the Macmillan Holistic Needs Assessments and Care Plans are completed for all patients at key points of their cancer treatment pathway. You will be required to liaise with and ensure referral and appropriate signposting onto allied health professionals and services as required. To provide and offer a wide range of information and support to patients their family and/or carers at all stages of their cancer journey this includes access and utilisation of Information, Prescriptions, and signposting to the Whittington Health Macmillan Information space. To competently act as the patients, advocate and assist patients in understanding their disease and treatments available to them, to enable them to make informed choices about their care. Assist in the co-ordination of patient treatment pathways between the various departments in both primary and secondary care to facilitate continuity of care. To attend the relevant Breast outpatient clinics. These include: One stop clinic and those where patients are given a cancer diagnosis. To be a core member of the Breast MDT and attend the palliative care and site-specific MDTs where Breast patients are being discussed and as deemed appropriate. To establish links and develop networking opportunities with Breast CNSs at other Trusts. To support and assess all Breast cancer in-patients and liaise with ward staff and Consultants as deemed appropriate and provide a seamless approach to communication to enhance the patients pathway and experience. To ensure that patients are referred onto other health care professionals and services to ensure a seamless, high-quality pathway of care for them, their families and carers. To establish and maintain close working relationships with the Hospital and relevant Community Macmillan Palliative care teams. To be responsible in ensuring accurate and comprehensive documentation in all patients notes which include the trusts EPR and Somerset Cancer database system. To work as part of the MDTs core member and actively participate in the National Cancer Peer review process. To regularly attend the Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist Forum and participate in the agreed projects/work streams as agreed by the group. To provide CNS cover for cancer/Breast CNS colleagues during leave and absence. To be competent in managing your own timetable and caseload. This includes managing any nurse-led clinics with minimal supervision from the Breast consultants. To ensure that robust Breast care patient tracking is completed in partnership with the MDT Coordinator. To possess exemplary time management skills. Please see the attached Job Description for a full list of main responsibilities.