The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

Breast Palliative Care Specialist Nurse

Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
12/13/2024
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Description
The Christie Macmillan Secondary Breast Cancer Nursing 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 their award winning team as Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for the post holder to provide specialist secondary breast care nursing support in our local peripheral hospital clinics. The post holder must demonstrate a flexible approach and willingness to travel to hospital clinic sites within Greater Manchester and Cheshire area.

We are happy to offer this position as a secondment opportunity.

The post involves developing the service at peripheral sites. To act as a keyworker to patients diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer and providing support and information throughout their cancer pathway as well as participation in service development.

Successful candidates will have a minimum of 5 years post registration, with previous experience in breast oncology and ideally, having some palliative care knowledge and experience in managing patients with advancing disease. Advanced communication skills are essential.

The Christie is one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country.

We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years.

We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sharon Foy Job title: Lead Macmillan Secondary Breast Cancer CNS Email address: The-christie.sbcn@nhs.net Telephone number: 0161 446 3996
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