Breast Clinical Nurse Specialist

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Breast Clinical Nurse Specialist

The closing date is 13 September 2026

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Job summary

Join Our Breast Services Team

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) to join the Breast Services team at Sherwood 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.

About us

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

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Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

Details

Date posted

28 August 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£49,387 to £56,515 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

214-SRG-8192855

Job locations

• King's Mill Hospital


• Mansfield Road


• Sutton-in-Ashfield


• NG17 4JL


• United Kingdom

Employer details

Employer name

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

King's Mill Hospital
Mansfield Road
Sutton-in-Ashfield
NG17 4JL
United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Head Of Service for Breast
Ellie Gutteridge

eleanor.gutteridge2@nhs.net

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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.

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here