Oncology Breast Cancer Nurse Specialist

This is a permanent, full-time Clinical Nurse Specialist post within the Breast Oncology service.

The postholder will provide specialist clinical expertise, patient education, toxicity monitoring and pathway coordination for individuals undergoing treatment for breast cancer. They will play a key role in ensuring timely assessment, safe initiation and ongoing management of cancer treatment , supporting adherence, early identification of side-effects, and appropriate escalation.

Working as an integral member of the multidisciplinary team, the CNS will contribute to high-quality, patient-centred care, improved pathway flow, and achievement of national cancer waiting time standards. This post strengthens the service's capacity to meet increasing clinical demand and ensures continuity, safety and quality across the breast oncology pathway.

Main duties of the job

We want to provide a full holistic service to all our breast cancer patients that are having chemotherapy.

You will care and support patients through oncological treatment pathways and follow up to ensure the provision of safe, seamless, appropriate services, thus maximising the health and quality of life of the patient and carers and improving the quality and efficiency of health care delivery.

You will be instrumental in the setting up of the service and work with the existing breast care nurses.

Act as resource to wider cancer team and other tumour sites.

To work closely with services already in place for Oncology & Palliative Care in providing holistic and age appropriate care.

To provide specialist training across functional boundaries as required

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.