About this role
Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Advanced Clinical Practitione Documents r to establish a new service for an oncology and haematology ambulatory care within cancer care at UHD.
The service will support a variety of pathways for patients with a diagnosis of cancer, and support the inpatient and SDEC services to prevent unnecessary admissions.
As a successful candidate you will have experience in the management of patients with a variety of oncology and haematology malignancies requiring timely intervention. You will have excellent communication and leadership skills which will be essential for service development and team support.
Professional registration with relevant professional body.
Base Location: Royal Bournemouth Hospital
Interview Date: 22nd October
Main duties of the job
To be responsible for the assessment and treatment of individuals for the cancer care ambulatory service using an advanced level of professional accountability, autonomy, and judgement, underpinned by Masters level theory and experience. This includes highly complex decision-making across a broad range of differentiated and undifferentiated individual presentations and complex situations, synthesising information from multiple sources to make appropriate, evidence-based judgements and/or diagnoses.
To provide direct clinical leadership to the ambulatory nursing team. To work with others within the directorate to determine the priority workload of the team across the directorate.
About us
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have about this at interview.
Job description Job responsibilities
To plan and manage complete episodes of care, working in collaboration with the consultants and others, delegating and referring as appropriate, to ensure timely, effective management and optimise health outcomes, in line with the evidence base and nationally recognised best practice.
To play a key operational role and maintain a pro-active approach to managing and leading clinical pathways and flow.
Working closely with a multi-professional team, lead the ACP service in delivery of high quality, performance, and financial frameworks.
To promote and implement service and policy development and redesign, impacting beyond own area and other disciplines, informed by current best practice and evidence-base, in accordance with values-based care of the trust.
To act as a resource to others and to develop, deliver and evaluate a range of relevant specialist programmes of education and development for individuals and large groups, including the wider multidisciplinary team, both internally and external to the trust.
Please see attached job description for further details.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Masters level Advanced Clinical Practice Non-medical independent and supplementary prescriber Budget Management Recognition as Advanced Practitioner by the National Centre for Advancing Practice
Desirable
Recognition as Advanced Practitioner by the National Centre for Advancing Practice
Experience Essential
Experience working independently as an ACP within cancer care
Desirable
Demonstrable leadership and nursing experience at senior level in cancer care
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 details Employer name University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
Address Bournemouth
Castle Lane East
Bournemouth
BH7 7DW
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.uhd.nhs.uk/careers (Opens in a new tab)