Breast Clinical Nurse Specialist

Breast Clinical Nurse Specialist

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Location: London, England, United Kingdom.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert advice and compassionate support to patients with breast cancer and their families, guiding them from diagnosis through treatment and follow-up care.
• Manage your own caseload, coordinate care, and ensure seamless communication across all professionals involved in the patient pathway.
• Deliver specialist education to staff and patients, uphold national care standards, and act as a key worker to ensure patients receive essential information and support.
• Meet national data requirements and contribute to local and national audits.
• Work collaboratively with all members of the MDT to ensure a seamless patient pathway from diagnosis through treatment and follow-up care.
• Act as an autonomous practitioner, managing your own caseload while working closely with colleagues to deliver the highest standards of care for patients diagnosed with breast cancer.
• Provide support and coordination for patients, families, and carers throughout all stages of the disease and treatment, using advanced communication skills to facilitate appropriate onward referrals.
• Serve as the designated Breast Key Worker, acting as a primary point of contact for patients and their families.
• Ensure completion of Macmillan Holistic Needs Assessments and Care Plans at key points in the cancer pathway, and liaise with allied health professionals to provide referrals and signposting to appropriate services.

Equality and diversity

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, and we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that, as a public sector organisation, we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences.

Contact

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Gemma Ingram-Adams
Job title: Lead Cancer Nurse
Email address: g.ingram@nhs.net