Join Our Breast Services Team
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Clinical Nurse Specialist - Advanced Breast Practice to join our established Breast Services team at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

This is a senior, autonomous clinical post for an experienced breast clinician who is able to assess, investigate and manage patients across defined breast diagnostic, treatment and follow-up pathways. The successful candidate will work alongside Consultant Breast Surgeons, Breast Radiologists, Oncologists, Breast Care Nurses and the wider multidisciplinary team.

Although the post is substantively badged as a Clinical Nurse Specialist, this is an advanced clinical practice role and is deliberately distinct from the traditional Breast Care Nurse role. The postholder will have direct responsibility for clinical assessment, diagnostic investigation, clinical decision-making, treatment and follow-up.

Applicants must already have substantial experience in breast clinical practice and be able to demonstrate advanced assessment, diagnostic reasoning and autonomous clinical decision-making. This is not a developmental post for a nurse wishing to progress into advanced practice, and the successful candidate will be expected to undertake the clinical responsibilities of the role from appointment, subject to the Trust's usual governance and competency requirements.

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: 20 October 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-8344088
Job locations: King's Mill Hospital, Mansfield Road, Sutton in Ashfield, NG17 4JL, United Kingdom

Person Specification
Knowledge Requirements - Essential

• Excellent communication and listening skills
• Specialist breast benign conditions and breast cancer knowledge and expertise
• Good computer skills
• Good interpersonal and organisational skills
• Team player
• Experience of teaching and assessing healthcare professionals

Knowledge Requirements - 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 formal training in advanced breast clinical assessment and examination
• Non-medical prescribing (or willingness to undertake)

Further Training - Desirable

• Motivational interviewing / counselling course / training

Experience - Essential

• Significant experience post registration at band 7 in breast clinical practice - assessing patients with breast symptoms, breast sepsis and managing patients with suspected or confirmed breast cancer
• Advanced clinical history-taking and breast and axillary examination skills
• Experience of autonomous clinical decision making
• Experience of primary endocrine treatment for breast cancer
• Ability to request and interpret appropriate investigations and formulate clinical management plans
• Experience of nurse-led and community-based specialist clinics
• Ability to recognise suspected malignancy and appropriately escalate or refer
• Membership of special interest and professional group
• Working within a leadership role
• Change management and leadership skills
• Experience of audit and service improvement

Experience - Desirable

• Multidisciplinary team working
• Caseload management
• Demonstrable experience of teaching / training healthcare professionals
• Experience of clinical leadership within a breast cancer service
• Experience contributing to workforce planning, role development or skill-mix transformation
• Experience developing clinical guidelines, protocols or competency frameworks
• Leadership or management qualification, or equivalent experience

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).

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/

For questions about the job, contact:
Head of Service (Breast Surgery)
Ellie Gutteridge
eleanor.gutteridge4@nhs.net
01623622515

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