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Acute Oncology Nurse Practitioner

Wye Valley NHS Trust
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Location
Salary
£46,148 - £52,809 pa pro rata
Profession
Nurse practitioner
Grade
Band 7
Deadline
13 Apr 2025
Contract Type
Permanent
Posted Date
28 Mar 2025

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Acute Oncology team in cancer services, in the Macmillan Renton Unit. We are a satellite site for Cheltenham visiting Oncologists. We do not have Oncology inpatient bed base, therefore the Acute Oncology team are pivotal in ensuring a clear link between Oncology and WVT teams.  The successful candidate will provide day to day leadership in the delivery of cancer services across the organisation, exercising advanced clinical skills, levels of judgement, discretion and decision-making.

The acute oncology service is a seven day a week service, ensuring our cancer patients get the right care at the right time, in the right place.

The role requires considerable tenacity and autonomous thinking to ensure that the right escalations, clinical actions and advice is made to ensure that the patient pathway to treatment is not subject to unnecessary delays.

Main duties of the job

  • To act as an autonomous practitioner, making critical clinical decisions
  • The post holder will extend clinical practice and standards of care within the acute oncology service, including development of policies, protocols and guidelines and contribute to service improvement in collaboration with multidisciplinary colleagues.
  • To improve outcomes for patients by improving cancer services and quality of cancer care. Radiology may report incidental findings
  • To act as a resource for junior doctors and registered nurses requiring specialist support.
  • To act as a resource for patients requiring specialist support, particularly for patients who have no site specific nurse specialist.
  • To act as an interface between medical practitioners, nursing staff, the multidisciplinary team, patients and carers
  • To support medical staff in the management of patients with a known or suspected malignant diagnosis.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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