University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Band 6 Clinical Nurse Specialist Breast Reconstruction
The closing date is 04 June 2026
Exciting opportunities for Clinical Nurse Specialists have arisen within the Breast Reconstruction Service. The service is provided across QEHB, Solihull, and Good Hope Hospitals according to service need. We are seeking a nurse with post registration experience in relevant specialities, someone that can demonstrate professional and clinical skills commensurate to the post. To include experience in wound care. We require someone that can support plastics consultants and patients across multiple sites in the Trust. The successful candidate needs to be reliable, a good team player who can demonstrate empathy with excellent interpersonal skills.
A flexible and positive approach to working is essential, as is the ability to work independently with the wider MDT. The ability to manage and deal with stressful situations is also a requirement.
There is one full time (37.5), permanent post and one part time (18.75), 12 month fixed term post available.
Main duties of the job
Main duties to include:
- Implementation of care for patients undergoing breast reconstruction in both inpatient and outpatient settings.
- Expert wound care.
- To act as a role model; providing expertise, support, advice and education to health care professionals, patients and carers.
- To assist consultant plastic surgeons at various locations.
- Improve and maintain knowledge, competence and skill levels whilst ensuring high quality, holistic, patient centred care.
- Liaise and collaborate with wider MDT.
- Provide support and teaching as required.
- Provide psychological support and information associated to altered body image.
- Assist with planning and implementation of nurse led clinics.
About us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Job responsibilities
Please Note: For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description.
Qualifications
- Registered Nurse with valid NMC registration.
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience.
- Portfolio of certified / accredited post registration professional development.
- Health Assessment post graduate qualification / willingness to work towards.
Experience
- Post registration experience with evidence of knowledge and development for the associated area of specialist practice.
- In depth knowledge of specialist procedures required for role, with willingness to undertake further training / education to achieve agreed level of competence.
- Knowledge of standards and policies associated with role.
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and cross agency work environment.
- Demonstrable understanding of the national / NHSE diagnostic / therapeutic expectations / strategy around endoscopy services and can relate this to the role.
- Demonstrable understanding of clinical governance / patient safety process’s — can relate this to the role in relation to their personal/professional accountability.
Additional Criteria
- Ability to follow complex instructions consistently in relation to the delivery of endoscopy practice.
- Consistently professional, collaborative, and compassionate in their approach to colleagues/ patients.
- Effective people skills including high degree of self-awareness / self-regulation.
- Ability to understand, interpret and critically analyse information/ data and develop skills in reporting of video capsule images.
- Ability to recognise limits of own competence and seek advice / support escalating concerns as required.
- Ability to apply, evaluative and reflective techniques to personal practice, events, and activities.
- Ability to plan, prioritise workload in response to service need.
- Ability to explain the requirement to balance clinical caseload and developing skills, knowledge, and competence.
- Ability to work towards autonomous enhanced practice through exposure, supervised practice to a preset level of clinical competence.
- Ability to contribute to service development.
- Acts to support and enable teamwork.
- Cheerful outlook towards supporting organisational / service changes, learning and continuous quality improvement.
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.
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
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