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Job overview

The Frimley Health Foundation Trust Breast Cancer team are looking for an experienced, dynamic nurse, who is passionate about the patient experience and the delivery of quality, patient-focused care, to join our team as a Band 7 Secondary Clinical Nurse Specialist, on a full time, permanent basis.

The post will be mainly based at Frimley Park Hospital and the post holder will also be required to support the FHFT service at St Luke’s Cancer Centre, Guildford, one day per week.

The post involves acting as a keyworker and advocate to patients diagnosed with secondary breast cancer, providing support and information throughout their cancer pathway, as well as participation in service development.

Successful candidates will be experienced nurses, with previous clinical specialism in breast oncology, at Band 6 minimum. Ideally candidates would also have some SACT and/or palliative care knowledge and experience in managing patients with advancing disease. Advanced communications skills are essential.

Frimley Health is committed to the training and development of all staff, with opportunities to attend specialist courses and conferences, to develop in your role. Monthly clinical supervision is also provided, to promote health and wellbeing.

Main duties of the job

· You will work autonomously, managing the caseload of secondary breast patients, but within and supported by an established and collaborative team of Breast Clinical Nurse Specialists.

· You will provide professional and clinical leadership and expertise in the care of patients with secondary breast cancer, acting as a specialist resource to provide advocacy, information and support to patients, carers and staff.

· You will liaise effectively with all key members of the multidisciplinary team, so as to achieve a synchronised specialist service, within a multi-professional framework.

· You will work across primary, secondary, tertiary and community care settings, in the planning and delivery of services that support people with a diagnosis of secondary breast cancer.

· You will also liaise with colleagues external to the Trust, within the Surrey and Sussex Cancer Alliance and National Networks, in the interests of service improvement and development.

· You will take responsibility for own evidence-based practice and implement and add to the body of knowledge which supports nursing practice within the Breast cancer care.

· To provide informal and formal teaching, e.g., academic courses provided by the Trust.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.