Acute Oncology Nurse Practitioner
Job overview
Job overview
The post holder will support the cancer services and oncology teams to provide Clinical, professional and managerial leadership, ensuring high standards of Evidence based practice.
This nurse led service requires the post holder work autonomously in ensuring the safe co-ordination, triage clinical assessment, treatment planning, decision making and diagnosis during the patients care pathway. The post holder must be proactive in the development and implementation of the clinical service and long-term strategic direction of the Acute Oncology service, maintaining compliance, ensuring person centred care and evaluates the patient experience across the service.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will support the cancer services and oncology teams to provide
Clinical, professional and managerial leadership, ensuring high standards of
Evidence based practice. This nurse led service requires the post holder work autonomously in ensuring the safe co-ordination, triage clinical assessment, treatment planning, decision making and diagnosis during the patients care pathway. The post holder must be proactive in the development and implementation of the clinical service and long term strategic direction of the Acute Oncology service, maintaining compliance, ensuring person centred care and evaluates the patient experience across the service.
The post holder is key member of the Acute Oncology Service to ensure safe care to patients and service users and maintain a safe environment for all according to local and national standards and evaluating across the service. Expectation for the practitioner to promote effective workplace cultures across the new team, support acute oncology pathways within the organization to sustain person-center safe effective care.As part of this team the post may require the holder to work on other sites with East Kent Hospital Trust, in order to meet service requirements and to ensure that staff maintain and develop their skills. In addition to covering the acute oncology service, the post holder will be expected to support Brain, CUP and sarcoma patients.
Working for our organisation
We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with five
hospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 800,000 people. Our vision is 'great healthcare from great people'. Everything we do is guided by our values: 'People feel cared for, safe, respected and confident that we are making a difference’.We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called 'We care'. It's about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We're looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families and carers we care for every day.
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Please note that if you require a Certificate of Sponsorship to work in the UK you must declare this on your application form, even if you currently have a certificate of sponsorship or a work permit for another role and are already working in the country.Please note we are only able to sponsor candidates on a Skilled Worker Visa applying for roles Band 5 and above.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please scroll down to access the full Job Description and Person Specification located in ‘Documents to download’.
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Person specification
Knowledge
Essential criteria- specialist knowledge in cancer care, service development, acute care skills, clinical audit
- knowledge of cancer pathways, able to write written reports and generate data, able to present written and verbal handovers
Qualifications
Essential criteria- RGN, NMC registration, degree, teaching
- non medical prescribing, master degree, clinical skills and examination, service development
Skills
Essential criteria- advanced clinical assessment, advanced communication skills, leadership skills, excellent written and verbal skills
- project management skills, triaging skills, ability to work under pressure, demonstrate the Trusts Values
Experience
Essential criteria- experience with a range of acute settings, band 6 experience for a minimum of 2 years , minimum of five years experience as a band 5, experience caring for cancer patients
- 5 years clinical experience, experience in ED, chemotherapy knowledge
Staff and patients from across East Kent Hospitals are the feature of the biggest NHS recruitment drive in its 70 year history. https://www.ekhuft.nhs.uk/patients-and-visitors/work-here/
Filmed in William Harvey and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother hospitals, the ‘We are the NHS’ campaign highlights the extraordinary work that staff across EKHUFT do every single day. As one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with five hospitals and community clinics serving a population of over one million people, EKHUFT was perfectly placed to demonstrate the care, cutting-edge treatments, research, innovations and life-saving operations that the campaign needed.
There are lots of great opportunities at East Kent Hospitals, where staff are caring and put patients first, innovation flourishes and you can develop your career. We’re on an exciting journey of transformation. With a new Medical School at the centre of our community, a focus on research, clinical leadership and making our trust a rewarding and friendly place to work, there’s never been a better time to join us.To find out more about east Kent visit our website at. The Trust fully supports the SAS Doctors Charter and is committed to their development through its CPD Framework.
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The Trust is committed to supporting flexible working to fulfil our pledge as part of The Trust’s People Strategy to help staff to achieve a healthy work/life balance. Please speak with your Recruiting Manager for further information on how this can be managed alongside department expectations and requirements.
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