Job summary
- Main area
- Cancer
- Grade
- Band 7 (Developmental Band 8A post)
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 337-NP-8042DG-B
- Employer
- London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Northwick Park Hospital
- Town
- Harrow
- Salary
- £51,883 - £58,544 per annum including HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/03/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Cancer Rapid Diagnostic Service ACP/ANP
Band 7 (Developmental Band 8A post)
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
We run major acute services at:
- Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
- St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
- Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
- Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
Find out more about our Trust and why you should join us#WeAreLNWH
Find out more about Our HEART values
Find out more about our Trust Staff Benefits
Our vision at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust is to put “Quality at our HEART”. Find out more about our ambitious strategy
We are clear that our vision can only be achieved by our staff, who are our most valuable asset.
Our vision is driven by our HEART values and behaviours which were developed together with our staff.
- H onesty
- E quity
- A ccountability
- R espect
- T eamwork
These values describe how we interact with each other and our patients and must underpin everything we do to achieve our vision.
LNWUH is a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced ACP/ANP to join the Rapid Diagnostic service, this role is available either full time or as 30 hours/0.8WTE per week. The post holder will provide direct care, advice, management, leadership, and supervision of high-quality patient focused services for patients referred into the rapid diagnostic clinic. They will be an advance autonomous practitioner working both independently and alongside other health care professionals to assess, investigate, diagnose and treat patients.
You will be a key member of the RDC multidisciplinary team. They will be the main point of liaison between patient and local GPs.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will undertake triage of the patient after referral from Primary Care. They will also supervise and co-ordinate the patient’s investigative pathway between hospital departments. Together with the pathway co-ordinator and GP Lead, they will act as the point of contact between the patient and the various specialty teams involved in the diagnostic process. They will facilitate investigations prior to a clinical assessment wherever feasible and appropriate to ensure a timely diagnosis.
Working for our organisation
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
We run major acute services at:
- Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
- St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
- Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
- Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To view the main responsibility, please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
- • Extensive experience of working as a Cancer CNS
- • Experience of Writing Operational Policies / Protocols and Guidelines to support service development initiatives
- • Knowledge of Cancer Waiting Time initiatives and their implication for care pathways
- • Knowledge of Cancer Care pathway
- • Staff / team management
Desirable criteria
- • Knowledge of Commissioning processes
Education/ qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse
- Master’s level qualification in non-Medical prescribing & Advanced assessment skills
- Recognised post registration qualification in cancer nursing
- Advanced communication skills training
- Level 2 psychological skills training
- Relevant Degree
Desirable criteria
- • Master’s in advanced practice or working towards
- • IRMER Qualification
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Helene Buijs
- Job title
- Macmillan Senior AOS CNS
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 869 3686
- Additional information
Philippa Hand
Macmillan Senior Nurse Cancer Services
0208 869 3062
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