Breast Cancer Support nurse in Bedford

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Breast Cancer Support nurse

The closing date is 29 March 2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our breast cancer nursing team. In this role, you will support the Breast Care Clinical Nurse Specialists in providing high-quality, holistic care to patients with breast cancer, as well as their relatives and carers. Your support will span the entire patient pathway–from diagnosis and treatment through survivorship and metastatic disease.

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the role

Work collaboratively with all members of the MDT to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate evidence-based care for individuals accessing the breast cancer service, ensuring a seamless and patient-centred experience.

Maintain high standards of clinical care for patients with breast cancer through strong professional leadership, advanced clinical knowledge, and specialist skills.

Deliver a range of nurse-led clinics, providing specialised care and support for breast cancer patients, and refer to consultants or nurse-led follow-up pathways as appropriate.

About us

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience – we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.

Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarise yourself with all requirements of the job.

Job responsibilities

Maintain a visible and professional presence with staff and patients, contributing directly to high-quality patient care.

Develop nursing skills, competence, and advanced practice within your area of responsibility.

Act as a professional role model and provide effective, facilitative clinical leadership.

Take responsibility for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care programmes for patients with breast cancer, in line with evidence-based practice.

Continue to develop your knowledge and competence in breast cancer care, demonstrating an evidence-based approach.

Attend and participate as a core member of the Breast MDT meeting in accordance with national guidance.

Manage your own workload across a wide range of specialist activities, including planning throughout the patient pathway and liaising directly with other healthcare professionals and agencies.

Support the overall patient experience by coordinating medical and nursing care, and escalating concerns to the consultant when required.

Provide psychological and emotional support, advice, counselling, information, and education to breast cancer patients, their partners, and families throughout diagnosis, treatment, and followup.

Use the electronic Holistic Needs Assessment tool to identify individual patient support needs before treatment, at the end of treatment, and develop care plans to address their concerns.

Please refer to the attached JD file.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Mentorship or teaching qualification
• Evidence of continuous Professional development
• Degree in nurse related speciality or working towards
• Advanced communication skills
• IRMER Qualified

Experience

• Substantial clinical experience within acute hospital setting
• Working collaboratively across professions, organisations and services
• teaching staff/ patients/relatives within the working environment
• Expereince within the speciality of breast care and/or oncology

Knowledge

• Knowledge of professional and NHS issues.
• knowledge and application of Clinical Governance
• knowledge of Clinical audit and research
• Knowledge of NHS IT Systems
• knowledge of oncology, breast care and research within the specialist field

Skills

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Able to prioritise, organise and manage own workload and work with minimal supervision.
• Able to be a positive and effective team worker in the multidisciplinary team.
• Able to analyse complex patient conditions and take appropriate action
• Able to perform assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of specialist care
• Able to analyse data and provide and present written reports
• Team Leadership & motivational skills

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.

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust