Band 6/7 Breast Cancer Nurse Specialist

Band 6/7 Breast Cancer Nurse Specialist
The closing date is 02 August 2026

Job Summary
The Surgical Care group is looking to recruit a dedicated and highly skilled Band 7 Breast Cancer Nurse Specialist to support the Cancer pathway. You would need to be an experienced band 6/7 acting within your professional boundaries and willing to develop your skills. As a Breast CNS you will play a vital role in delivering specialised nursing care to the patients with Breast conditions.

You will have excellent communication skills both verbally and in written. You will be proactive in ensuring that your clinical expertise is up to date to contribute as a role model to the service. The post holder will be a member of the Trust's Breast team and undertake the role of the CNS supporting and facilitating the patient's journey. You would be working in a collaborative manner, providing clear decision making skills in consultation with medical and nursing staff. The post holder will ensure that they always protect and promote patient safety. You would effectively liaise with multidisciplinary teams and service maintaining a good rapport to ensure excellent working relationships are maintained with other departments.

For those who may not yet fully meet the criteria, we are also open to offering this role as a developmental post at Band 6.

In this case, you will undertake a structured training, academic, and professional development pathway, designed to enable progression to Band 7.

Main Duties of the Job
The post holder will work as an integral member of the Multidisciplinary Team within Barking Havering and Redbridge University Trust. The post holder will acknowledge and provide the overall responsibility for the provision of specialist nursing advice and support to patients and families, Inpatient and out-patient, throughout their care pathway.

• Demonstrate personal strength and effectiveness with professional behaviour under stressful and difficult situations.

About Us
We're an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with.

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission.

We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen's and get rid of corridor care.

We're proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We're also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance.

We run a Women's Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The majority of our 8,400 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

Details
Date posted: 22 July 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for Change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £45,953 to £62,652 a year per annum inclusive
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 162-7841-SURG
Job locations: King George Hospital, Barley Lane, Ilford, IG38YB, United Kingdom

Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential

• Registered Nurse, 1st level with current NMC Registration

Desirable

• Counselling Skills Training

Experience/Knowledge
Essential

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience as a registered nurse with recent experience within Breast Cancer or oncology

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 Contact Details
Matron: Kuldip Chagger, View email address on meeveem.com, View phone number on meeveem.com

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust is an equal opportunities employer. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975.