Advanced Clinical Practitioner

NHS; Ipswich; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

Join the East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner, where you will lead a dedicated team providing expert oncology care. This full-time role offers a chance to influence patient outcomes and develop your professional skills while serving a community of nearly one million people.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

27 days annual leave

Access to NHS discounts

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• Completed portfolio of supervised practice in advanced clinical practice.
• Evidence of recent teaching, mentorship, and supervision of staff.
• Professional registration with NMC, GPhC, or HCPC.

Responsibilities

• Leading teams to ensure prompt patient assessment and secondary care access.
• Providing clinical supervision to trainee ACPs.
• Collaborating with senior medical personnel and the wider MDT.

Skills

Clinical supervision

Oncology expertise

Autonomous practice

Quality improvement methodology

Education

1st degree in a clinical field

MSc in Advanced Practice

Non-Medical Prescribing

Job description

Go back East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Advanced Clinical Practitioner

The closing date is 13 July 2025

We are looking for a qualified, experienced, enthusiastic and highly motivated Advanced Clinical Practitioner, who has oncology or acute medical experience, to join our Acute Oncology Service (AOS). This exciting opportunity facilitates working within the four pillars of advanced practice: education, clinical practice, leadership and research.

The AOS team aims to provide seamless care for our service users where we provide prompt reviews of our patients by assessing them when they present for scheduled, unscheduled and emergency cancer care. Patients who are able to access the service will have a formal cancer diagnosis and will be experiencing complications of their treatment, their disease or both. The team covers both Systemic Anti-Cancer Treatment (SACT) and immunotherapy complications. The AOS team are also key providers of the AOS emergency advice line and work alongside the ACP's. This aspect is fundamental to the service delivery and one of the prompt ways in which patterns have direct access to receiving high quality telephone triage and allow for direct admission into our assessment area.

The clinical role will be on-site and involve cross site working to Colchester and Ipswich Hospitals.

This role is full time, however we would accept a minimum of 30 hours per week. The service currently operates 5 days a week 8am-6pm. Please note the forward plan is to expand the hours and operation of the service to include 7 day working, including weekends and bank holidays.

Main duties of the job

The role involves working as part of and leading an enthusiastic dedicated team to ensure patients receive prompt assessment, advice and guidance and early access to secondary care services if needed. You will also be providing clinical supervision to trainee ACPs.

As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) for our AOS service, you will need to be clinically experienced within the field of oncology or acute medicine. The post will require you to work as an autonomous practitioner to appropriately assess, examine, investigate and treat patients at an advanced level. You will collaborate with senior medical personnel and the wider MDT as appropriate to the patient's condition and will be accountable for the total episode of care.

You will have the opportunity to contribute to further development of a well-established and successful service with new innovative ideas. You will promote and facilitate evidence-based practice, clinical audit and research within the department.

About us

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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Job responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

Person Specification

Experience

• Completed portfolio of supervised practice in advanced clinical practice.
• Evidence of continued professional development following MSc completion.
• Evidence of recent teaching, mentorship, and supervision of staff
• Evidence of multi - professional working
• Evidence of clinical work in an autonomous role
• Evidence of quality improvement methodology and audit experience
• Evidence of involvement in change management

Qualifications

• Professional Registration with either NMC, GPhC or HCPC.
• Possession of 1st degree in a clinical field e.g., Nursing, physiotherapy at a minimum 2:2 classification
• Possession of MSc in Advanced Practice or recognised equivalent by HEE Centre Advancing Practice
• Non-Medical Prescribing (v300) if appropriate to registered profession /role
• Leadership/management course
• Evidence of continuing education

Knowledge

• Demonstrates a high degree of knowledge within specialty
• Demonstrate an understanding of current developments in the relevant speciality
• Demonstrate the ability to utilise current research finding in practice
• Understand, encourage, and support clinical supervision
• Knowledge of clinical governance and risk assessment/management
• Knowledge of infection control issues
• Knowledge of current NHS, professional and educational issues

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

£53,755 to £60,504 a yearper annum pro rata