Nurse Practitioner
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
The post holder will demonstrate a high level of expertise within Acute Oncology Service providing advice, education and support to staff, patients, their families and carers. The post holder will be practicing autonomously as an advanced clinical practitioner within Acute Oncology Service to provide patient-centred clinical care.
This will encompass the skills of advanced clinical assessment, history taking, examination, synthesising information gathered and using clinical reasoning to diagnose and formulate a shared management/personalised care/support plan within an agreed scope of practice throughout the directorate.
The post holder will ensure that patients presenting with metastatic malignancy of unknown origin and Suspicion of Cancer (SOC) have access to rapid expert oncology input to avoid unnecessary, inappropriate investigations; are discussed in MDT; and receive rapid treatment for their disease and/or symptom control decisions.
The post holder will be expected to monitor the impact of the Acute Oncology Service, using a number of key metrics including length of stay. This will be of a demonstrably high standard; and will influence patient care through expert clinical practice, management, leadership, education research, audit and professional activities.
Main duties of the job- Work autonomously as an advanced practitioner within acute oncology, managing a caseload of patients and delivering individualised direct patient care.
- Direct responsibility for assessment, examination, investigation and diagnosis of patients presenting with complications of cancer, treatment or new diagnoses of cancer.
- Appropriately advise the admitting team about treating patients, resulting in the safe management.
- Receive referrals via a variety of sources, including direct patient referrals.
- Participate in multidisciplinary clinics, participate in ward rounds, patient reviews and multidisciplinary team meetings.
- Work within and across multi-professional teams and draw on the expertise of all members
- Undertake a variety of clinical skills and provide treatment/ advice as per the acute oncology guidelines and scope of practice.
- Within the scope of practice and clinical competence request diagnostic procedures and clinical investigations related to plans of care.
- Utilise scope of practice to undertake a Non-Medical Prescribing role and provide advice on medicine management issues associated with the patient speciality group. Work within Trust policy for Medicines Management.
- Utilise advanced knowledge and skills relating to the speciality to provide specialist advice to other members of the multidisciplinary team on the basis of patient assessment.
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education/qualifications
Essential criteria- NMC registration and degree in related subjects
- A post registration qualification(s) in area of practice Cancer
- MSc or MA in related specialiy
- Quality improvement training
Experience
Essential criteria- Experience of working as nurse practitioner
- Experience of teaching and assessing others
- Experience of leading and managing others
- Research experience
Skills/abilities
Essential criteria- Ability to work autonomously and part of a team
- Excellent organisational skills and advanced ICT skills
- Ability to lead and influence change
- Ability to design and deliver education programmes