Job summary
Are you looking for a new
challenge in 2023? Are you a fully
qualified ACP looking to specialise, or are you a cancer nurse who wants to
progress his/her career as an Oncology/Haematology ACP?
An exciting opportunity has arisen
for two motivated and enthusiastic individuals to join our Haematology /
Oncology Team at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals trust as an Advanced Clinical
Practitioner (ACP)/ trainee ACP in Haematology and Oncology. These are two
newly developed posts so we are keen to hear from experienced and driven
individuals who are able to take this role forward.
The ACP will support the medical and nursing teams in the
management and review of Haematology/Oncology patients within the Acute
Oncology Assessment bay, chemotherapy units and outlier wards. They will
provide support for the Haematology and Oncology medical team working across
county, working to agreed protocols and guidelines ensuring an efficient,
effective and patient-focused service.
The applicant can either be a fully qualified Advanced
Clinical Practitioner or an ACP in training with specialist skills, knowledge
and experience in haematology, oncology and chemotherapy.
If you are interested in these posts, we are
happy to arrange informal visits.
For further details/informal visits please
contact Alison Jones Acute Oncology ACP/Service Lead Alison.jones18@nhs.net Tel 01905
763333 or Mob: 07808912966
Main duties of the job
- To work independently
at an advanced clinical level in the direct delivery of high quality care
making critical clinical decisions based on advanced clinical skills
assessment.
- To provide clinical
leadership and support within both the medical and nursing teams and to support
the Trust lead ACP (where in post) in developing the Trusts ACP service to
improve the patient experience.
- To support Consultants
with day to day clinical activity (to be determined according to need of
specialist area).
- To support junior
medical staff, sharing clinical workload and allowing junior Drs to achieve
training and development requirements.
- To provide in-patient
areas with consistent high quality clinical care.
- To
support Trust Management teams with on-going clinical care provision and assist
with effective patient flow through the Trust.
About us
Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.
The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester
Our workforce is nearly 6,800 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.
Our objectives are simple:
- Best services for local people
- Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
- Best use of resources
- Best people
Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.
We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Duties:
Clinical:
- Assess and prioritise patients undergoing treatment.
- Undertake advanced practitioner-level holistic
assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patients care needs.
- On a daily basis, act autonomously to provide expert
clinical/technical care, which contributes to the diagnosis, specialist care
and treatment plans for these highly complex patients. In the absence of
medical staff and within predetermined parameters, using advanced
clinical-reasoning skills the post holder will initiate treatment plans and
support to ensure the on-going safety of the patient.
- Demonstrate continual evaluation of practice within
the defined specialist area and take responsibility for making agreed changes
where appropriate.
- Request and arrange necessary investigations including
X-rays, ultrasound scans, VQ scans, endoscopy, spirometry, echocardiography,
and exercise tolerance tests, interpreting and reporting findings to appropriate
clinicians.
- Discuss and agree assessment outcomes with patients,
carers and other healthcare professionals, to enable them to make informed
decisions regarding treatment.
- Ensure that accurate, essential and appropriate
written and verbal information is relayed to staff, ensuring adequate
facilities are in place to maintain safety in the environment, ensuring
effective management of this group of patients.
- Ensure that patients are referred to appropriate
practitioner when needs and risks are not within own scope of practice. Ensure
dignity, privacy, and cultural and religious beliefs are respected at all times.
Professional:
- Act as a role model by demonstrating high standards of
holistic care.
- Ensure that documentation is of a very high standard,
adhering to local and national guidelines.
- Take on a pivotal role in the development and
promotion of a care philosophy, ensuring clinical practice is reflective of
this ideology.
- Take key responsibility for supporting medical
colleagues, nursing colleagues and the matron for services.
- Maintain a current and up-to-date personal
professional profile in accordance with guidelines.
- Maintain competency.
- Ensure that all aspects of clinical practice are
research and evidence based.
Managerial/Leadership:
- Assess and monitor risk in own and others practice,
acting on results, thereby ensuring safe delivery of care.
- Monitor and develop quality initiatives in line with
local and national requirements and guidelines; take a lead role in the
facilitation of such initiatives.
- Identify the skills set and terms of reference
required of the Advanced Nurse Practitioner role, ensuring they reflect the
individual, holistic needs of patients undergoing care.
- Work pro-actively in managing change in own
speciality, to improve practice and health outcomes.
- Attend relevant meetings regularly to influence and
make decisions regarding service delivery provision and further development of
the service.
- Manage own diary and workload.
- Act in such a way as to be a credible, effective
leader, demonstrating effective clinical leadership on a daily basis.
Educational:
- Support the development of protocols for the
management of patients.
- Contribute to and participate in the Organisation
Education Strategy.
- Promote the service offered through formal and
informal presentations within and outside the organisation through study days,
conferences and written papers.
- Carry out training needs analysis, using the results
to design, develop and deliver a teaching programme promoting practice
development for those staff caring for patients in the speciality. This will
include the development of links with other organisations and innovative
approaches to staff development.
- Deliver formal and informal teaching initiatives as
part of the above programme.
- Receive clinical supervision in order to clinically
improve knowledge and the quality of care to patients.
- Contribute to the training of medical colleagues and
other non-medical professionals in areas suitable to the service.
- Contribute to the training of colleagues and peers in
aspects of service delivery provision and to support the service.
- Identify own personal developmental and educational
needs to work at an advanced level and beyond. Ensure appropriate action is
taken to maintain and further develop such skills.
- Attend mandatory lectures and training as required by
the organisation.
Multi-disciplinary liaison:
- Establish and maintain excellent communication with
individuals and groups exploring complex issues relating to care options and
decisions.
- In all aspects of work, challenge and demonstrate an
ability to work autonomously across organisational and professional boundaries.
- Promote collaborative working relationships and
effective communication between all members of the team.
- Co-ordinate closely with managers the timely movement
of patients to ensure appropriate use of resources within the provision.
- Work with other areas, specialities and services to
adjust boundaries across the specialist are.
- Develop formal and informal links outside the
organisation, sharing good practice innovative ideas, and promote staff and
service development.
- Establish and maintain a regional and national network
of contacts relevant to the service.
Research and Audit:
- Identify the educational needs of the specialist group
of patients and their carers, and ensure that these are met through the service
provided.
- Identify areas of practice that may expand or be
enhanced, to ensure the best clinical outcome for patients.
- In collaboration with other senior staff, at all times
ensure clinical practice is patient centred and research based, in accordance
with professional practice, guidelines, and national and local benchmarks.
- Encourage and assist other staff within the field to
enable and empower them to carry out relevant research.
- Promote and disseminate research and audit findings
relevant to the service.
- Carry out audit and evaluation in order to monitor the
effectiveness of current therapeutic regimes and to improve health outcomes.
Service Development:
- In all aspects of work, challenge and demonstrate an ability
to work across all organisational boundaries.
- Identify areas of practice which may expand, to ensure
the best clinical outcomes for patients.
- Develop policies and clinical guidelines necessary to
support the development of the specialist service.
- Continue with personal education and development, to
identify improvements within the service framework.
- Influence decisions regarding service delivery through
participation in meetings.
- Continue to develop and promote the Advanced Nurse
Practitioner role through professional publications and conference papers.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Duties:
Clinical:
- Assess and prioritise patients undergoing treatment.
- Undertake advanced practitioner-level holistic
assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patients care needs.
- On a daily basis, act autonomously to provide expert
clinical/technical care, which contributes to the diagnosis, specialist care
and treatment plans for these highly complex patients. In the absence of
medical staff and within predetermined parameters, using advanced
clinical-reasoning skills the post holder will initiate treatment plans and
support to ensure the on-going safety of the patient.
- Demonstrate continual evaluation of practice within
the defined specialist area and take responsibility for making agreed changes
where appropriate.
- Request and arrange necessary investigations including
X-rays, ultrasound scans, VQ scans, endoscopy, spirometry, echocardiography,
and exercise tolerance tests, interpreting and reporting findings to appropriate
clinicians.
- Discuss and agree assessment outcomes with patients,
carers and other healthcare professionals, to enable them to make informed
decisions regarding treatment.
- Ensure that accurate, essential and appropriate
written and verbal information is relayed to staff, ensuring adequate
facilities are in place to maintain safety in the environment, ensuring
effective management of this group of patients.
- Ensure that patients are referred to appropriate
practitioner when needs and risks are not within own scope of practice. Ensure
dignity, privacy, and cultural and religious beliefs are respected at all times.
Professional:
- Act as a role model by demonstrating high standards of
holistic care.
- Ensure that documentation is of a very high standard,
adhering to local and national guidelines.
- Take on a pivotal role in the development and
promotion of a care philosophy, ensuring clinical practice is reflective of
this ideology.
- Take key responsibility for supporting medical
colleagues, nursing colleagues and the matron for services.
- Maintain a current and up-to-date personal
professional profile in accordance with guidelines.
- Maintain competency.
- Ensure that all aspects of clinical practice are
research and evidence based.
Managerial/Leadership:
- Assess and monitor risk in own and others practice,
acting on results, thereby ensuring safe delivery of care.
- Monitor and develop quality initiatives in line with
local and national requirements and guidelines; take a lead role in the
facilitation of such initiatives.
- Identify the skills set and terms of reference
required of the Advanced Nurse Practitioner role, ensuring they reflect the
individual, holistic needs of patients undergoing care.
- Work pro-actively in managing change in own
speciality, to improve practice and health outcomes.
- Attend relevant meetings regularly to influence and
make decisions regarding service delivery provision and further development of
the service.
- Manage own diary and workload.
- Act in such a way as to be a credible, effective
leader, demonstrating effective clinical leadership on a daily basis.
Educational:
- Support the development of protocols for the
management of patients.
- Contribute to and participate in the Organisation
Education Strategy.
- Promote the service offered through formal and
informal presentations within and outside the organisation through study days,
conferences and written papers.
- Carry out training needs analysis, using the results
to design, develop and deliver a teaching programme promoting practice
development for those staff caring for patients in the speciality. This will
include the development of links with other organisations and innovative
approaches to staff development.
- Deliver formal and informal teaching initiatives as
part of the above programme.
- Receive clinical supervision in order to clinically
improve knowledge and the quality of care to patients.
- Contribute to the training of medical colleagues and
other non-medical professionals in areas suitable to the service.
- Contribute to the training of colleagues and peers in
aspects of service delivery provision and to support the service.
- Identify own personal developmental and educational
needs to work at an advanced level and beyond. Ensure appropriate action is
taken to maintain and further develop such skills.
- Attend mandatory lectures and training as required by
the organisation.
Multi-disciplinary liaison:
- Establish and maintain excellent communication with
individuals and groups exploring complex issues relating to care options and
decisions.
- In all aspects of work, challenge and demonstrate an
ability to work autonomously across organisational and professional boundaries.
- Promote collaborative working relationships and
effective communication between all members of the team.
- Co-ordinate closely with managers the timely movement
of patients to ensure appropriate use of resources within the provision.
- Work with other areas, specialities and services to
adjust boundaries across the specialist are.
- Develop formal and informal links outside the
organisation, sharing good practice innovative ideas, and promote staff and
service development.
- Establish and maintain a regional and national network
of contacts relevant to the service.
Research and Audit:
- Identify the educational needs of the specialist group
of patients and their carers, and ensure that these are met through the service
provided.
- Identify areas of practice that may expand or be
enhanced, to ensure the best clinical outcome for patients.
- In collaboration with other senior staff, at all times
ensure clinical practice is patient centred and research based, in accordance
with professional practice, guidelines, and national and local benchmarks.
- Encourage and assist other staff within the field to
enable and empower them to carry out relevant research.
- Promote and disseminate research and audit findings
relevant to the service.
- Carry out audit and evaluation in order to monitor the
effectiveness of current therapeutic regimes and to improve health outcomes.
Service Development:
- In all aspects of work, challenge and demonstrate an ability
to work across all organisational boundaries.
- Identify areas of practice which may expand, to ensure
the best clinical outcomes for patients.
- Develop policies and clinical guidelines necessary to
support the development of the specialist service.
- Continue with personal education and development, to
identify improvements within the service framework.
- Influence decisions regarding service delivery through
participation in meetings.
- Continue to develop and promote the Advanced Nurse
Practitioner role through professional publications and conference papers.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered with an appropriate regulatory body (i.e. NMC, HPCC, GPhC).
Desirable
- Registered Independent Prescriber or currently completing Independent Prescribing accreditation.
- Masters in Advanced Clinical Practice or equivalent level 7 Health Assessment (or working towards).
Experience
Essential
- Experience of extremely highly sick patients.
- Evidence of knowledge and understanding of Cancer patients.
- Experience of successfully supervising and contributing to the training of own professional team and proven experience of training nurses, doctors and other healthcare professionals.
- Formulation and monitoring of policies / guidelines.
- Evidence of Quality Improvement projects and clinical audit.
- Evidence of formal teaching experience.
Desirable
- Postgraduate clinical specialist knowledge / qualification in oncology / haematology.
- Post registration qualification in education/teaching.
- Advanced communication skills training.
- Evidence of advanced knowledge and understanding of Haematology/Oncology.
- Training in authorisation of blood products.
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Able to demonstrate evidence of autonomous practice in the management of patients.
- Can take an accurate and comprehensive history from patients.
- Has undertaken examination of patients (includes training environment).
- Able to interpret national guidelines within specialist area, and Trust policies, procedures and guidelines related to specialist area including clinical governance and risk management.
- Able to develop policies and practice in response to need.
- Skills for teaching and supervising health care professionals at all levels.
- Skills for using Microsoft Office to produce word-processed documents e.g. SOPs for specialist areas, patient care plans (MS Word), record research and audit data (MS Excel) and prepare and deliver training (MS PowerPoint).
- Up to date knowledge of specialist field and general knowledge of other medicines actions and usage.
- Understanding of both the current and longer term issues facing Haematology services within the NHS.
Desirable
- Experience or willingness to undertake clerking and undertaking independent examination of patients.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered with an appropriate regulatory body (i.e. NMC, HPCC, GPhC).
Desirable
- Registered Independent Prescriber or currently completing Independent Prescribing accreditation.
- Masters in Advanced Clinical Practice or equivalent level 7 Health Assessment (or working towards).
Experience
Essential
- Experience of extremely highly sick patients.
- Evidence of knowledge and understanding of Cancer patients.
- Experience of successfully supervising and contributing to the training of own professional team and proven experience of training nurses, doctors and other healthcare professionals.
- Formulation and monitoring of policies / guidelines.
- Evidence of Quality Improvement projects and clinical audit.
- Evidence of formal teaching experience.
Desirable
- Postgraduate clinical specialist knowledge / qualification in oncology / haematology.
- Post registration qualification in education/teaching.
- Advanced communication skills training.
- Evidence of advanced knowledge and understanding of Haematology/Oncology.
- Training in authorisation of blood products.
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Able to demonstrate evidence of autonomous practice in the management of patients.
- Can take an accurate and comprehensive history from patients.
- Has undertaken examination of patients (includes training environment).
- Able to interpret national guidelines within specialist area, and Trust policies, procedures and guidelines related to specialist area including clinical governance and risk management.
- Able to develop policies and practice in response to need.
- Skills for teaching and supervising health care professionals at all levels.
- Skills for using Microsoft Office to produce word-processed documents e.g. SOPs for specialist areas, patient care plans (MS Word), record research and audit data (MS Excel) and prepare and deliver training (MS PowerPoint).
- Up to date knowledge of specialist field and general knowledge of other medicines actions and usage.
- Understanding of both the current and longer term issues facing Haematology services within the NHS.
Desirable
- Experience or willingness to undertake clerking and undertaking independent examination of patients.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
