Advanced Practitioner/Trainee Advanced Practicioner - Breast

Gateshead Health; Gateshead; Hybrid; GBP 43,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust invites applications for an Advanced Practitioner in Breast Services. The post is open to qualified or trainee APs and offers a fast-paced environment with autonomous clinical practice, underpinned by master’s level study across clinical practice, leadership, management, education and research.

The post works closely with an established team including 8 Consultant Surgeons, 1 Consultant Breast Care Nurse and 1 Qualified AP, supported by our Breast Care Nurse

Qualifications

• Current NMC Registration, or Paramedic or AHP with registered professional qualification
• Completion of ACP MSc Apprenticeship
• Already on ACP MSc apprenticeship programme due to complete within the next 6 months

Responsibilities

• Supports advanced clinical practice with autonomy in a complex environment.
• Works within the breast surgery MDT to deliver integrated breast care services.

Skills

Acute Medicine

Interpersonal skills

Education

NMC/Paramedic/AHP registration

ACP MSc Apprenticeship

On ACP MSc apprenticeship

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for either a qualified or trainee Advanced Practicioner to join Breast Services at the Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust. This role is suitable for an individual that is keen to be part of a fast-paced environment where every day is different.

The Advanced Practitioner (AP) is required to be an experienced registered healthcare professional working at an advanced level in clinical practice, who will exercise autonomy and decision making in a context of complexity, uncertainty and varying levels of risk, holding accountability for decisions made.

The AP role is underpinned by master's level study and encompasses the four pillars of clinical practice, leadership, management, education and research, with demonstration of core capabilities and specialty specific clinical competence. The AP will be an independent prescriber, having completed a recognised independent prescribing qualification, including annotation with their professional regulatory body and works within their scope of practice and relevant legislativeauthority.

This post is to work closely alongside our established team of 8 Consultant Surgeons, 1 Consultant Breast Care Nurse and 1 Qualified AP. All are supported by our experienced Breast Care Nurse team.

If the post is appointed to a trainee position, this will begin at a Band 7 before progressing to a Band 8a upon qualification.

Main duties of the job

Please see the attached document for more information on the specifics of the advanced practicioner role within breast surgery.

About us

The service has encompassed the full 4 tier skill mix thus supporting learning and development opportunities at all levels.

The Breast Surgical team includes Oncoplastic Breast Surgeons, Consultant Breast Care Nurse and Breast Care Nurses.

The imaging team includes Consultant Radiologists, Consultant Radiographer, Advanced Practitioners, Radiographers and Assistant Practitioners.

The multidisciplinary teams are innovative, cohesive and forward thinking, participating in multiple research and audit trials. The department receives excellent feedback from patients, registrars and students. The breast symptomatic pathway reflects the screening pathway to instil best practice.

Our values should be the 'golden thread' which runs through everything we do - they are the core of who we are. Our five values can easily be remembered by the simple acronymICORE; Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement.

We have a number of staff networks including the Global Ethnic Majority (GEM) network, D-Ability network, LGBTQ+ Network and the Women's Network, to challenge us and help us to constantly improve. Our Armed Forces network is one of our emerging networks.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is one of our highest priorities, and we offer a range of support and initiatives as part of our 'Balance' programme balancegateshead.com to cater for our diverse workforce, so that your individual needs can be supported, allowing you a happy and healthy working experience with us.

Job responsibilities

Full details are available within the attached Job Description document which includes the main duties of the role, key dimensions of the position, as well as the required knowledge, skills and experience requirements

Breast services at Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust (GHNFT) have an excellent reputation. Over recent years the service has grown to become one of the biggest breast units in the North-East of England. As our service continues to develop, we are looking to recruit additional Breast Care Nurse Specialists.

Our service is currently the lead provider for breast care services across Gateshead, Sunderland and South Tyneside. Feedback on our services is consistently excellent, with the service consistently ranked in the UKs top five in the National Cancer Survey of patients experience of care. GHNFT also provides the breast screening programme for Gateshead, South Tyneside, Sunderland, Durham and Chester-Le-Street, and as a result, we benefit from retaining an experienced and established specialist breast radiology team.

The future development of breast services is an organisational priority, with the growth in service demand being supported through investment, including the recruitment of additional Breast Care Nurses into our existing experienced team. Collaboration with Sunderland CCG has provided us with the use of a purpose-built breast clinic facility within Grindon Primary Care Centre. This allows GHNFT to provide locality-based breast care services for Sunderland patients. It is expected that all our breast team support the delivery of services from all localities from which breast services are provided.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Current NMC Registration, or Paramedic or AHP with registered professional qualification
• Completion of ACP MSc Apprenticeship
• Already on ACP MSc apprenticeship programme due to complete within the next 6 months

Skills, Knowledge and Aptitude

• Expert knowledge and clinical skills in Acute Medicine
• High level of interpersonal and communication skills

Experience

• Substantial experience of working in acute or emergency care as a trainee or qualified ACP
• Substantial experience of care delivery

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.