Clinical Nurse Specialist - Breast Care | North Bristol NHS Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 30 Rhagfyr 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £47,810 - £54,710 per annum (pro rata for part time) |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 29 Ionawr 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Bristol, BS10 5NB |
| Cwmni: | North Bristol NHS |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7680716/339-ASCR0716-DJF |
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An exciting opportunity has arisen to work as clinical nurse specialist (Band 7) at the Breast care centre Southmead and at Weston.
If you are passionate about looking after Breast cancer patients this will be the role for you.
The Clinical Nurse Specialist will lead the North Bristol Trust Breast Care CNS team across Southmead Hospital and Weston General Hospital.
They will work as an important member of the Cancer Multidisciplinary Team within North Bristol NHS Trust collaborating with a range of health care providers in the local community and across the regional Network. The post holder will provide high quality, specialist, expert nursing care and support for patients with a cancer diagnosis throughout the care pathway.
The post holder will utilise skills of leadership, clinical expertise, specialist education and management to ensure a seamless service for patients, carers and staff. The post holder will provide highly complex advice, support and information from the time of referral through to diagnosis and throughout the cancer pathway.
· To provide highly specialist nursing care for a patient caseload ensuring everyone receives a high standard of personalised care, working to co-ordinate care and provide easy access to services and ongoing physical and emotional support for patients their carer and families.
· To act as an autonomous practitioner, independently planning, implementing and evaluating programmes of care achieved through systematic and holistic assessment, skills and personalised care planning,
· To provide patients and staff with specialist advice to manage complex symptoms within area of expertise.
· To expertly deliver highly complex sensitive condition related information to patients and relatives, including delivering diagnosis, treatment option discussion and activating MDT clinical management plan.
Demonstrate highly developed communication skills to provide guidance, advice, and support to the individual /carer regarding their holistic care to support what matters to the patient.
North Bristol NHS Trust employs over 12,000 staff providing healthcare to the residents of Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset from our award-winning hospital building at Southmead. We are the regional Major Trauma Centre, and an internationally recognised centre of excellence in a range of services and major specialities. Our vision is that by enabling our teams to be the best that they can be, we will provide exceptional healthcare, personally delivered.
North Bristol NHS Trust values all people as individuals. We aim to be an anti-discriminatory organisation and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We welcome applicants from all underrepresented groups.
· To work alongside the Team Leader to ensure the service meets the wide range of needs of people living with and beyond cancer e.g personalised support plans, remote surveillance, telephone follow up, nurse-led clinics, across sites.
· To lead on the development and implementation of protocols/policy/procedures for specialist area of work and for the wider healthcare community served by North Bristol Trust
· To provide professional leadership for band 6 Clinical Nurse Specialists and Cancer Support Workers, and be a role model in relation to nursing in specialist area
· To be responsible for developing and coordinating job plans in order to maximise teameffectiveness and efficiency
· To lead on responding to complaints and queries, and have a working awareness of the North Bristol NHS Trust’s complaints procedure
· To lead on quality improvement, using improvement methodology to motivate and reassure staff through negotiation and training, to facilitate service improvement.
· To maintain accurate and concise records that produce statistical data for the purpose of evaluationand development of the service
· To lead the development of the Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist Nursing service operational policy, alongside the team leader and actively engage in peer review in collaboration with cancer strategy.
· To be responsible for the effective, efficient and safe use, maintenance and storage of resources and equipment used in the performance of the role
This advert closes on Tuesday 13 Jan 2026