Breast Clinical Nurse Specialist: Sponsorship Available

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Join Our Breast Services Team

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experiencedClinical Nurse Specialist (CNS)to join the Breast Services team atSherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

We are seeking an exceptional CNS with substantial experience working within breast services to join our established multidisciplinary team. This is an opportunity to play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred care across symptomatic and breast cancer pathways while contributing to the continued development of our service.

Working alongside Consultant Breast Surgeons, Radiologists, Breast Care Nurses, Oncologists and Allied Health Professionals, you will provide expert autonomous clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning and follow-up for patients presenting with breast disease.

The successful candidate will be an experienced clinician who is confident in autonomous decision-making, passionate about delivering outstanding patient care and committed to continuous service improvement.

Apply now to join our team!

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Knowledge Requirements

Essential

  • Excellent communication and listening skills
  • Specialist knowledge and expertise
  • Good computer skills
  • Good interpersonal and organisational skills
  • Team player
  • Team player Demonstrable teaching skills

Desirable

  • Research awareness
  • Audit methodologies

Qualifications

Essential

  • NMC Level One Registered Nurse
  • BSc in Nursing
  • ENB 998 or equivalent teaching course
  • Evidence of post-basic specialist education
  • Educated to Masters level (or working towards) or equivalent demonstrable experience and learning within breast services
  • Non-medical prescribing (or willingness to undertake)

Further Training

Desirable

  • Motivational interviewing / counselling course / training

Experience

Essential

  • Significant experience post registration at band 7 with experience in working with patients in breast services
  • Membership of special interest and professional group
  • Working within a leadership role
  • Change management and leadership skills

Desirable

  • Multidisciplinary team working
  • Caseload management
  • Demonstrable experience of teaching / training healthcare professionals

Contractual Requirements

Essential

  • Flexible approach to working
  • Ability to work unsupervised
  • Ability to travel between 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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

UK Registration

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

Closing Date: 13 September 2026

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