Advanced Clinical Practitioner/Trainee ACP for Frailty

Job overview

An exciting opportunity for an ACP to join our Frailty team. The successful candidate will provide day to day expertise across the organisation, exercising advanced clinical skills, levels of judgement, discretion and decision-making in specifically Frailty SDEC and the Frailty wards, demonstrated through, and supported by, professional portfolio evidence.

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.

This may also be offered as a training position to a suitably experienced candidate.

Main duties of the job

• To act as an autonomous practitioner, making critical clinical decisions independently when diagnosing, monitoring and managing patients with an MUO/CUP/NSS; supporting the Acute Oncology nursing team.
• To independently prescribe and request additional diagnostics to improve and support patient pathway, reducing unnecessary delays.
• The post holder will extend clinical practice and standards of care within the MUO/CUP/NSS and acute oncology service, including development of policies, protocols and guidelines and contribute to service improvement in collaboration with multidisciplinary colleagues.
• Participate and contribute to the MDT for CUP/MUO/NSS and ensure the patients are referred to relevant pathway to reduce delays.
• To improve outcomes for patients by improving cancer services and quality of cancer care. Radiology may report incidental findings to the CUP/MUO/NSS lead to redirect to the relevant MDT.
• 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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