Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Specialist Breast Care Nursing team for a 27.5 hour per week on a permanent basis.  We are based at The Nightingale and Prevent Breast Unit; it is Europe’s first purpose built breast cancer prevention and treatment facility and is a leading Breast cancer institute with a national and international reputation.

The Nightingale breast unit houses several key services that facilitate a fully integrated ‘one stop’ diagnostic pathway, providing a comprehensive screening, diagnostic, staging and treatment service for all patients with breast cancers.

The service aims to provide a high quality, safe and supportive environment in order to care for patients diagnosed with breast cancer or benign disease, and aims to meet identified physical and psychosocial needs. We also provide a comprehensive and state-of-the-art breast reconstruction service.

Main duties of the job

An exciting opportunity has arisen at Manchester University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) for a Breast Care nurse. The post holder will be expected to provide knowledge and support to patients diagnosed with breast cancer as well as their families in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team and in line with local and national targets.

 Working alongside the existing Macmillan Clinical Nurse Specialist team the post holder will act as key worker, carrying a clinical caseload. Excellent communication skills will ensure the post holder will be able to act as patient advocate whilst liaising with all members of the multidisciplinary team members when dealing with patients with complex issues.

The specialist Breast Service at The Nightingale Unit is a screening and symptomatic service providing a full range of assessment investigations and treatment modalities for patients diagnosed with both benign and malignant breast disease.

Our aim is to provide an excellent standard of care using specialist knowledge from the time of diagnosis and throughout the treatment trajectory.

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.