Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) to join our Acute Oncology Service.

We are looking for an autonomous advanced practitioner with strong medical/oncology experience who is passionate about improving care for patients presenting with acute complications of cancer, cancer treatment or suspected new malignancy.

Working as a senior clinical member of the Acute Oncology multidisciplinary team, the ACP will provide expert assessment, advice and advanced clinical support to Emergency Department, acute medical and wider clinical teams caring for patients with known or suspected cancer.

The role will strengthen joint working across Acute Oncology, acute and emergency care, oncology and cancer site-specific services, supporting timely clinical decision-making, investigation, treatment and onward referral.

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the development and evaluation of new ways of working, including opportunities to strengthen outpatient assessment and follow-up, helping to ensure people affected by cancer receive timely specialist input and are cared for in the right place, by the right team, at the right time.

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About You

You will be an experienced registered healthcare professional with significant experience in oncology and/or acute cancer care.

You will have completed an MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice or equivalent recognised advanced practice qualification and hold an independent prescribing qualification appropriate to your professional background.

You will demonstrate advanced clinical assessment, clinical reasoning and decision-making skills and the ability to work autonomously while collaborating effectively with medical, nursing and multidisciplinary teams.

This is an opportunity to join a developing Acute Oncology Service as a senior clinical practitioner, working within the established multidisciplinary and service leadership structure.

The postholder will use advanced clinical practice to strengthen specialist Acute Oncology support across acute care while contributing to the development and evaluation of new models of care that improve coordination, pathways and patient experience.

Working for our organisation

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

For roles at Liverpool Women’s, visit their careers page.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Advanced Clinical Practitioner will:

• Work autonomously at advanced practice level within the Acute Oncology Service.
• Provide expert Acute Oncology assessment, advice and advanced clinical support to teams caring for patients with known or suspected cancer.
• Support Emergency Department and acute medical teams with complex clinical decision-making, investigation and management planning.
• Undertake advanced clinical assessment and formulate differential diagnoses to inform recommendations and onward management.
• Request and interpret appropriate diagnostic investigations and prescribe independently within their scope of practice.
• Recognise oncological emergencies and provide expert input to support timely investigation, treatment and escalation.
• Strengthen collaborative working between Acute Oncology, acute medicine, emergency care, oncology and cancer site-specific teams.
• Support timely navigation, referral and escalation to the most appropriate cancer or specialist pathway.
• Support opportunities for admission avoidance, timely discharge and appropriate specialist follow-up.
• Contribute to the development and evaluation of outpatient assessment, review and follow-up pathways and other innovative models of Acute Oncology care.
• Provide advanced clinical expertise, education and professional support to healthcare professionals caring for patients with acute oncology needs.
• Contribute to quality improvement, audit, education, research and service development in line with the four pillars of advanced clinical practice.

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Posts advertised to ‘internal staff’ are open to employees of hospitals within University Hospitals of Liverpool Group and you should confirm your employment within your application form.

Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria.

Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

Candidates applying for the role of Healthcare Assistant on the staff bank should note that due to the nature of the role, workers must be aged 18 or above when commencing in post. Applicants are therefore welcome from those aged over 18 or within 3 months’ of their 18th birthday.

The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.

The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.

Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £26.50 (standard disclosure) or £54.50 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment.

From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years.

Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults’ policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.

Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation.

All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action.

As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.

Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.