Breast Care Nurse Stockton on Tees

Job summary

Training may be considered for the successful candidate. In this case, the salary will reflect the training requirement and will be paid at AFC band 5 until training successfully completed.

The Breast Unit has an opportunity for a nurse to join our established team of specialist dedicated Breast Care Nurses.

This is a very busy unit. The team work within both the National Breast Screening service and the TeesWide symptomatic service providing specialist breast care services, advice, guidance and treatment for patients within the service.

Main duties of the job

A Breast Care Nurse acts as a resource to facilitate and co-ordinate the holistic care and treatment of patients referred to the breast service and will work within a multidisciplinary team of nurses, surgeons, radiologists, radiographers, oncologists and pathologists. They provide physical & psychosocial care to patients & carers from diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation, and they act as an information resource to patients, carers and other health professionals.

The Breast Care Nurse also care for patients with benign breast disease, those referred with family history of breast cancer or who are at high risk of developing breast cancer and those referred for reconstructive breast surgery.

Training may be considered for this post. If training is required, the salary will reflect the training need and will be aligned to AFC band 5.

The post holder would be based at North Tees and would work across all University Hospitals Tees sites as required by the service.

About us

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust have come together to form University Hospitals Tees. As a result, post holders may be required to work across sites within both organisations.

Across University Hospitals Tees, our ambition is to be the best place to work, ensuring we have the right staff in the right roles at the right time to deliver outstanding patient care and experience.

We are committed to supporting our staff through an inclusive and supportive working environment, offering health and wellbeing initiatives, staff benefits, and opportunities for personal and professional development.

We support the 'Making Every Contact Count' approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.

Job responsibilities

The most important role of the breast care nurse is to support, inform, advise and act as a patient advocate for individuals diagnosed with breast cancer and their families under supervision of the Lead Breast Care Nurse.

Qualifications

Essential

• RGN Part 1
• Teaching/Assessment qualification
• Principles and Practice of Breast Care Nursing course
• Counselling Certificate

Desirable

• Degree

Experience

Essential

• BCN Experience within a Breast Unit
• 3 years post registration experience, preferably in women's health, cancer or surgery

Desirable

• Awareness of Lympoedema management/willingness to train
• Surgical wound management

Skills/aptitudes

Essential

• Excellent written and communication skills
• Ability to work on own initiative
• Proven ability to affect change
• Audit knowledge and experience
• Experience of working in a team

Disposition

Essential

• Flexibility to cope with different work environments
• Ability to cope with stressful situations where patients receive bad news on a daily basis
• Ability to support patients and carers in a professional and empathetic manner
• Ability to work under pressure/meet deadlines whilst delivery high quality patient care

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.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).