Breast Clinical Nurse Specialist | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£49,387 - £56,515 per annum
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Sutton-in-Ashfield, NG17 4JL
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	28 Aug 2026
Closing date:	27 Sept 2026

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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.

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To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

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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To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

This advert closes on Sunday 13 Sep 2026

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