Advanced Nurse Practitioner– Breast Care

Job overview

Are you an experienced qualified nurse? Are you highly motivated and willing to promote change? Are you a team worker with a healthy work ethic and eager to learn? Then look no further, this role could be for you!

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Full-Time Qualified post in Breast surgery as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner. This vacancy is a permanent post.

The role was originally developed to enable new ways of working, specifically, the Mastalgia pathway for the Northants region. This is a nurse-led service allowing both Northampton and Kettering General Hospital patients with breast pain to be seen in clinics based outside of the main hospital.

Dependent on experience, you will be expected to run these clinics under remote supervision. You will also support the breast clinicians in diagnostic and follow up clinics and generally support the breast nursing team.

The applicant will be expected to hold a Non-Medical Prescribing qualification at level 6 or above and be qualified in Clinical Breast Examination. However we will consider a practitioner qualified in clinical examination without the prescribing course. This may affect the banding of the post being offered.

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The practitioner will work alongside the consultant surgeons and lead Advanced Nurse Practitioner to support both the mastalgia pathway for Northamptonshire and the diagnostic/follow up breast clinics.

You will:

• Provide direct clinical care and practice within your scope of competence. Assisting in the provision of Outpatient clinics and care of patients within the breast pathway
• Assess diagnose, plan, implement, and evaluate treatment/interventions and care for patients that present to the breast surgery service.
• Make independent clinical decisions and initiate invasive and non-invasive treatments, care, treatments, and technological interventions with the support of senior colleagues.
• If qualified, act as an independent non-medical prescriber, working within agreed protocols.
• Work collaboratively with all members of the multidisciplinary team to provide best-practice clinical care to breast patients and their carers.
• Facilitate learning and provision of education. Teaching and providing mentorship and support to other staff within the Trust to promote quality of care.
• Evaluate the care and management of patients within the breast service and specifically the Mastalgia pathway, using clinical audit, presenting outcomes locally and nationally.

Working for our organisation

Kettering General NHS Foundation Trust and Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust are both part of the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire NHS Group. Both are separate hospitals/employers with hospital board and leadership. We share a group executive team leading on a shared vision, mission, priorities, strategies and Dedicated to Excellence Values.

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We are consistently open, honest, and trustworthy. We can be relied upon; we stand by our values, and we always strive to do the right thing.

We dare to take on difficult challenges and try out new things. We find the strength to speak up when it matters, and we see potential failure as an opportunity to learn and improve.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for a full list of all Roles and Responsibilities.

Important Information

Applications will be transferred to TRAC system, by completing an application your are giving authorisation for the transfer of your data.

Correspondence regarding your application will be sent to you via a TRAC system account.

We are an equal opportunities employer, which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons from all backgrounds.

We welcome applications from members of our black and minority ethnic (BME) communities, especially in relation to senior posts within at KGH.

Applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria for the job will be interviewed if you indicate you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme. If you require a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process please make the recruitment services team aware as soon as possible.

Appointments will be made on merit.

In submitting an application form, you authorise Kettering General Hospital (KGH) NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process. Including factual reference, occupational health clearance and statutory and mandatory training record.

If you need to have a Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check, as a requirement of the role, you will be required to repay the cost of obtaining a DBS check (£49.50) and this amount will be reclaimed from your first salary. From 1st February 2019 all new starters to the Trust are required to join the DBS update service as per Trust DBS Re-checking Policy which has an annual cost of £16. New employees who do not join the update service will be required to pay £49.50 for a new DBS check in 3 years time.

Please note that news starters with KGH are subject to a six month probationary period.

Please ensure that the information you provide on your application form is correct, accurate and that nothing has been omitted. Any information that is stated in your application form in relation to qualifications/training courses/work/education experience/references must be able to be evidenced. Failure to do so may result if your offer being withdrawn.

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