Cancer Care Ambulatory Advanced Clinical Practitioner

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Advanced Clinical Practitioner 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.

Royal Bournemouth Hospital

22nd October

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.

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.

• 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.

• Masters level Advanced Clinical Practice
• Non-medical independent and supplementary prescriber
• Budget Management
• Recognition as Advanced Practitioner by the National Centre for Advancing Practice

• Recognition as Advanced Practitioner by the National Centre for Advancing Practice

• Experience working independently as an ACP within cancer care

• Demonstrable leadership and nursing experience at senior level in cancer care

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