Prostate Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Job overview

The post holder will work alongside our existing prostate ANPs to work with the clinical and operational teams, providing a prostate diagnostic service to meet national targets and standards. They will role model and provide supervision in delivering expert patient care both assessing patients presenting with suspected cancer and performing trans perineal prostate biopsy under local anaesthetic. The ANP team also provide line management, supervision and leadership to the localised prostate cancer CNS team.

Provide supervision and training to nursing and medical staff undertaking local anaesthetic transperineal biopsies, locally, across the SEL network and nationally as part of a GSTT based LA TP biopsy training programme. As a key member of the specialist diagnostic team, the Prostate Cancer ANP will demonstrate a high level of expertise within the PCDS providing specialist advice, education, clinical care and support to patients and allied health care professionals.

The post holder with be responsible for contributing to the ongoing development of clinical practice, research and standards of care within the urology service, raising the profile of the Prostate Cancer Diagnostic Service within GSTT, hospitals within the SEL Cancer Alliance, nationally and internationally.

This is an opportunity for a highly motivated individual to be at the forefront of advancing clinical practice and be able to make a real difference to patients within our service.

Main duties of the job

Deliver faster diagnostic standards in Prostate Cancer in line with attached job description.  This will include triage, requesting and co-ordination of diagnostic tests and delivering a nurse led localised trans perineal  prostate service.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The primary purpose of this post is to provide care to patients involving; assessment, examination, diagnosis and treatment within an advanced practice framework.

This must include engagement, consultation and negotiation with patients at the centre. The post holder is required to deliver an advanced level of practice within their field of clinical specialty and scope of practice as defined by the individual post’s role outline. Advanced clinical practice is a level of practice characterised by a high degree of autonomy and complex decision making. Advanced clinical practice involves the ability to manage clinical care in partnership with individuals, families and carers. It includes the analysis and synthesis of complex problems across a range of settings, enabling innovative shared solutions to enhance people’s experience and improve outcomes. This definition therefore requires that health and care professionals working at the level of advanced clinical practice will exercise autonomy and decision making in a context of complexity, uncertainty and varying levels of risk, holding accountability for their decisions.