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.

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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

Job description
Job responsibilities
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).

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.

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).

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

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, 01623622515

Supporting documents
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