Our Guildford Hospital currently have an opportunity for a Clinical Nurse Specialist - Breast care . Continue your journey with us whilst we'll support you to be your best.

We have an exciting opportunity for a skilled, motivated, confident nurse to join our team. We are looking for a Clinical Nurse Specialistm who is experienced in Breast care who will support the whole patient journey.

This is a new position to support development of a complete breast care pathway for patients from screening and diagnosis through to surgery and onwards supporting our Breast Care Consultants, out-patient, theatre, and ward manager, by providing a high standard of care both within the outpatient setting and visiting patients on the ward post-procedure.

There are plenty of opportunities for staff to develop their knowledge and skills and you will be offered support for your on-going professional development.

The opportunity

As a Clinical Specialist in Surgical Breast Care, to operate autonomously with an extended and advanced scope of practice, providing clinical leadership and specialist knowledge and skills that enable the delivery of the highest quality, patient care.

As our Clinical Nurse Specialist - Breast care you will:

• To oversee the delivery of care in a defined area of specialist practice, ensuring that all team members treat patients, families, friends and representatives with kindness, dignity, respect and compassion and support them to cope emotionally with their care, treatment or condition.
• To lead care management and delivery, assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating clinical interventions and care packages ensuring quality patient care.
• To partner and collaborate with other specialist clinicians and clinical leaders within the organisation to develop and implement protocols and pathways which create seamless patient care.
• To seek opportunities to evaluate patient experience, learning from complaints, accolades and feedback and continually striving towards the delivery of seamless patient care
• To identify opportunities and drive quality improvement and assurance activity in specialist area, supporting the delivery of Nuffield Health's clinical audit schedule and continuous improvement cycle.

The person

To succeed as a Clinical Nurse Specialist - Breast care , you will need:

• Registered clinical practitioner with the appropriate governing body.
• A degree / equivalent qualification or proven post-registration/post- qualification experience in own specialist area
• Postgraduate/post-registration training, qualifications and accreditations as appropriate to the specialism.
• Evidence of stretching continued professional development.
• Recognised advanced practice
• Specialist, senior level, post-registration experience gained through formal training required to meet registration requirements.
• Demonstrable specialist experience as a Subject Matter Expert
• Leadership/management experience

About the hospital

Nuffield Health Guildford provides high-quality healthcare for the people of Guildford and its surrounding areas. The hospital is easily accessible from the A3 or M25 and we are located about 1.5 miles from Guildford town centre. We work with leading Consultants to offer a range of services and treatments for preventing, diagnosing and treating a wide array of medical conditions and offer a wide range of complex surgery and services. Our care is matron led and we are proud to have received a "good" rating from the health care regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Our facilities include 49 en-suite patient bedrooms, 4 operating theatres, acute dependency and oncology units. We've been awarded the Macmillan Quality Environment Mark for cancer care. Our site is shared with an NHS Trust hospital, giving us access to their facilities. The working atmosphere is highly professional and stimulating, yet friendly and collaborative like that of a large family unit.

Our Macmillan sponsored unit accommodates around 25 patients at a time and treats a variety of cancers including Breast, Cervical, Ovarian, Pancreatic, Colorectal and Prostate.

The benefits

In return, we offer a working environment that will help you grow your skills and experience and get the best out of life. Other benefits include 25 days' annual holiday (increasing with service), free gym membership, private healthcare, pension scheme and a range of lifestyle and financial wellbeing benefits.

Be your best and join us in building a healthier nation.

Salary - Up to £50,000 dependent on experience

Guildford Hospital
Full-time & Part-Time considered

Applications will be considered as they are received, and interviews will be arranged accordingly. We reserve the right to close adverts early, for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications. Therefore, please apply early to ensure you are considered for the post.