Job summary
- Main area
- Breast Surgery
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- 1x part time - Band 5 post.
- Job ref
- 356-25-7399929
- Employer
- Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Breast Care Unit
- Town
- Cottingham
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Staff Nurse
Band 5
Job overview
The Breast Symptomatic clinic nursing team at Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust are recruiting. We require two registered nurses to join our team who are highly motivated and reliable, kind and honest, empathetic, respectful, confident and resilient. We are a supportive, and dedicated team with diverse experiences, knowledge, and skills.
The successful applicants will join a friendly, dynamic and progressive team based within the Breast Care Unit on the Castle Hill Hospital site. You will be responsible for providing high quality patient centered care within breast specialty clinics and nurse led services. You will work under the supervision of the Senior Sister and Deputy Nurse Director and in partnership with the wider breast multidisciplinary team including the breast surgeons.
You must be flexible in your approach to work, show evidence of effective teamwork and excellent communication. Be adaptable, able to lead and drive change whilst ensuring patient safety is always maintained. In return you will receive a wide range of training opportunities and comprehensive support for continual professional development.
Please note that this advertised vacancy does not meet the UKVI eligibility requirements for a Skilled Worker Visa and therefore HUTH would not be able to issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.
The successful candidate will be
For further information, please, email Emma Schrimshaw at [email protected]
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be directly responsible for the support and delivery of care to adult patients attending the Breast Symptomatic clinics.
As a registered nurse, the post holder is responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patients accessing a range of breast specialty clinics and nurse led services. Working as a highly skilled member of the collaborative breast multidisciplinary team, the registered nurse will practice safe, effective and efficient clinical care, whilst following the HUTH NHS Trust policies.
Working for our organisation
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Qualifications/ training
Essential criteria
- NMC adult general registered nurse
Desirable criteria
- Mentorship/ practice assessor qualification
Experience/ ability
Essential criteria
- Experience in Breast surgery or Plastic surgery
- Venepunture trained
- Excellent communication skills
- Experience of shift coordination - team and environment
- Autonomous practice - nurse led services
- Leadership skill
- Continuous professional development
- Basic wound care management
Desirable criteria
- Experience of preoperative assessment
- Experience of outpatient department working
- Advanced wound care management - negative pressure therapy
- Appraisal trained
- Entonox trained
- Service development
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Compassionate patient advocate
- Professional
- Team work
- Own initiative / prioritie own workload
- Flexible approach
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Emma Schrimshaw
- Job title
- Senior Sister
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01482 622679
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