Job summary
Velindre Cancer Centre are thrilled to announce they are looking to recruit an Oncology Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) to join its expanding ACP team.
We are looking to recruit a qualified or trainee ACP with recent experience in oncology. If you are applying for this role as a Trainee band 7 ACP role, Annex 21 will be applied. The candidate will be offered 70% of the salary in year one and 75% in year 2. There will be an opportunity for the right candidate to progress to the ACP at 8a level once fully qualified and successful completion of the VUNHST ACP ratification process.
Are you on a Masters pathway as a trainee ACP? Or do you have relevant experience? There is a place for you here with the team and we welcome your application. We can support a training and development opportunity, providing you are able to undertake the essentials of advanced clinical assessment, diagnostic reasoning, planning care and prescribing.
Main duties of the job
A key aspect of the role includes working as an autonomous practitioner across the Acute Oncology scheduled and unscheduled care day units, the chemotherapy day units, and the Clinical Support service within Velindre Cancer Centre. Additionally, there will be a requirement to work in the capacity of an ACP at the chemotherapy outreach units currently based within two local health boards.
This job plan will comprise of approximately 70% clinical duties which will include working a combination of day, night and weekend shift working. The remaining 30% will aim to focus on the 3 remaining Advanced Practice pillars: Education and Research, Leadership, and Management. As part of this role, the successful candidate will engage in operational duties related to site management and patient flow, an essential element that will reinforce and support the management pillar of the advanced practice framework.
English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
About us
Here at Velindre University NHS Trust, we are extremely proud of the specialist services we provide across the whole of Wales in our cutting-edge Velindre Cancer Centre and our award-winning Welsh Blood Service, as well as the expertise of our corporate functions that bring the two divisions together. We are also fortunate to host the NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership and Health Technology Wales and have developed strong partnership working with these expert services.
Formed in 1999, the Trust has a dedicated workforce that continuously strives to provide the key principles of prudent healthcare through a wide array of roles. We play a vital role in the communities we support and have ambitious plans for the future to continue to improve the services we deliver. We strive to maintain our core values in everything we do by being accountable, bold, caring, and dynamic, and ensuring the best possible care for our patients and donors.
If you want to work for an organisation that prides itself on making a real difference and offers exciting career opportunities, then Velindre University NHS Trust is the place for you.
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Person Specification
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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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.
UK Registration
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