About this role
Job summary
The Breast Care Nurse Specialist is a pivotal member of the multidisciplinary Breast Service Team at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust, providing expert, compassionate, and patient-centred care to individuals diagnosed with both malignant and non-malignant breast conditions.
The role combines advanced clinical expertise with strong leadership, care coordination, and advocacy skills to support patients and their families throughout every stage of the treatment and recovery pathway. Working autonomously and collaboratively within the wider healthcare team, the post holder delivers specialist assessments, nurse-led clinics, education, counselling, and psychosocial support while ensuring care is evidence-based, holistic, and tailored to individual needs.
The role also contributes to service improvement, clinical governance, education, and the ongoing development of high-quality breast care services in line with national standards and best practice.
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
About us
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
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Job description Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Knowledge Requirements Essential
Experience in NHS Hospital Setting Good communicator Team player Ability to manage case load Written, verbal and I.T skills Audit methodologies
Qualifications Essential
NMC Level One Registered Nurse Educated to degree level related to cancer or equivalent Cancer Nursing Qualification Teaching/mentorship ENB A11 or equivalent Communication skills
Desirable
Independent and Supplementary Nurse Prescribing Masters degree or working towards
Further Training Essential
Counselling skills
Experience Essential
Experience in the Breast speciality in particular relation to breast reconstruction Clinical teaching practice
Desirable
Publications Membership of special interest and professional groups
Contractual Requirements Essential
37.5 hours Flexible approach to work Post holder is required to travel between hospital sites
Disclosure and Barring Service Check 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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address Sherwood Forest Hopsitals
Mansfield Road
Sutton-in-Ashfield
NG17 4JL
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)