Advanced Nurse Practitioner – Breast Care

Job summary

Are you an experienced qualified nurse? Are you highly motivated and willing to promote change? Are you a team worker with a healthy work ethic and eager to learn? Then look no further, this role could be for you! An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Full-Time Qualified post in Breast surgery as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner. This vacancy is a permanent post.

The role was originally developed to enable new ways of working, specifically, the Mastalgia pathway for the Northants region. This is a nurse-led service allowing both Northampton and Kettering General Hospital patients with breast pain to be seen in clinics based outside of the main hospital.

Dependent on experience, you will be expected to run these clinics under remote supervision. You will also support the breast clinicians in diagnostic and follow up clinics and generally support the breast nursing team.

The applicant will be expected to hold a Non-Medical Prescribing qualification at level 6 or above and be qualified in Clinical Breast Examination. However we will consider a practitioner qualified in clinical examination without the prescribing course. This may affect the banding of the post being offered.

The practitioner will work alongside the consultant surgeons and lead Advanced Nurse Practitioner to support both the mastalgia pathway for Northamptonshire and the diagnostic/follow up breast clinics.

• Provide direct clinical care and practice within your scope of competence. Assisting in the provision of Outpatient clinics and care of patients within the breast pathway
• Assess diagnose, plan, implement, and evaluate treatment/interventions and care for patients that present to the breast surgery service.
• Make independent clinical decisions and initiate invasive and non-invasive treatments, care, treatments, and technological interventions with the support of senior colleagues.
• If qualified, act as an independent non-medical prescriber, working within agreed protocols.
• Work collaboratively with all members of the multidisciplinary team to provide best-practice clinical care to breast patients and their carers.
• Facilitate learning and provision of education. Teaching and providing mentorship and support to other staff within the Trust to promote quality of care.
• Evaluate the care and management of patients within the breast service and specifically the Mastalgia pathway, using clinical audit, presenting outcomes locally and nationally.

Kettering General NHS Foundation Trust and Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust are both part of the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire NHS Group. Both are separate hospitals/employers with hospital board and leadership. We share a group executive team leading on a shared vision, mission, priorities, strategies and Dedicated to Excellence Values.

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• Provide a visible presence and engage in direct clinical care and practice as appropriate within their scope of competence.
• Assess, diagnose, plan, implement, and evaluate treatment/interventions and care for patients that present to the breast surgery service and particularly the Northamptonshire mastalgia pathway.
• Make independent clinical decisions and initiate invasive and non-invasive treatments, care, treatments and technological interventions as appropriate under supervision and with support of senior colleagues.
• Be able to provide, analyse and receive highly complex and sensitive information
• Complete NMR radiology training as per KGH Trust SOP to be able to plan, order, interpret and act upon the results of imaging investigations.
• Provide evidence-based healthcare which contributes to the diagnosis, care and treatment of patients.
• If qualified, act as an independent non-medical prescriber, working within agreed protocols.
• Assist in the provision of Surgical Outpatient clinics and care of patients within the breast pathway.
• Work collaboratively with all members of the multidisciplinary team to provide best clinical care, emotional and psychological support and education to our breast patients and their…