Trainee ACP Teenage and Young Adult Team (Haematology & Oncology)

Job summary
An incredible opportunity has arisen to become part of our specialist Haematology and Transplant team at The Christie, delivering cutting-edge care to patients with haematological cancers. As home to the largest Teenage and Young Adult (TYA) Principal Treatment Centre in the North, we provide innovative, compassionate care to over 350 young people across inpatient, outpatient, and ambulatory settings.

As a valued member of our forward-thinking and dedicated TYA team, you'll be at the forefront of shaping the cancer journey for young people, before, during, and beyond treatment. We actively encourage curiosity, professional growth, and innovation, empowering you to explore every dimension of TYA cancer care while making a lasting impact on patient experience and outcomes.

We are seeking a passionate, highly motivated individual who is driven to deliver exceptional care and continuously improve services. You will bring substantial experience in medical and/or oncology settings. This role offers the opportunity to work autonomously and collaboratively, leading on the assessment, planning, and delivery of complex care for this unique patient group.

The post holder will work across the inpatient, outpatient and ambulatory setting as required. The role may in the future incorporate Weekends and Bank Holidays working.

Main duties of the job

• Develop towards providing advanced clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and ongoing management for a diverse caseload of TYA oncology, haematology and transplant patients.
• Develop highly specialist knowledge and clinical examination skills to manage patients with malignancies, including the acute care of patients receiving SACT.
• Develop towards providing expert clinical support across inpatient, day unit and ambulatory care services.
• Develop towards independently request and interpret investigations, undertake procedures, make appropriate referrals and maintain high-quality clinical records.
• Develop towards providing utilising Non-Medical Prescribing, which is fundamental to the role, to support timely and effective patient care.
• Develop towards providing providing clinical expertise to develop and enhance TYA oncology, haematology and transplant services.
• Work collaboratively across medical, nursing and AHP teams, promoting effective multidisciplinary communication and continuity of care.
• Act as a highly visible and approachable role model, promoting and disseminating evidence-based best practice.
• Develop towards providing demonstrating advanced practice across the four pillars of Advanced Clinical Practice: Clinical Practice, Leadership and Management, Education, and Research.

About us
The Christie is one of Europe's leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country. We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years.

The Christie TYA & haematology service acts as a tertiary referral centre for the management of patients with oncology, haematological malignancies and bone marrow failure. Inpatient haematology and transplant services for both adults and Teenage and Young Adult (TYA) patients are provided by the 31 bedded Palatine Treatment Ward, and the 4 bedded Withington Ward. Outpatient TYA oncology/ haematology services are provided by the TYA Day Unit, Haematology and Transplant Day Unit (HTDU) and the ambulatory care facility. The Christie TYA & haematology service has grown extensively over the past few years with the development of new treatments and CAR T.

Job responsibilities
Along with the service line senior leadership team, including Advanced Practitioners and Consultant Practitioners, Advanced Practitioners will provide positive leadership, connecting patients, staff and partners with the vision and values of The Christie NHS Foundation Trust.They will use their expert knowledge and skills to assist in leading and delivering safe and clinically effective, quality driven, personalised care for people within our communities. Working alongside the senior managers and clinicians, they will assist in leading services that meet the needs of patients and their families to achieve improved health outcomes and promote health and wellbeing while demonstrating care, compassion, competence, communication, courage, and commitment.

The post holder will provide advanced and specialist level comprehensive assessments for patients with highly complex presentations, case management, treatment, and education. This will predominantly be delivered within the setting of their service line and may extend into inpatient and clinic settings to support with highly complex cases and patient pathways.

Central to the role will be critical thinking and using advanced decision-making skills to assess and manage patients accurately and safely. However, at no times should clinical staff work outside their defined level of competence. If the post holder has concerns regarding this, they should immediately discuss this with their line manager.

The Advanced Practitioners position is service driven and will cover the four pillars of advanced practice as outlined in the multi-professional framework for Advanced Practice in England (2025); clinical practice; leadership and management; education and training; research, quality improvement and service development.

The Advanced Practitioners role will support senior leadership collectively delivering high quality, effective and consistent care. Fostering effective working relationships with colleagues across a range of specialties and agencies.Provide clinical/professional supervision and support for clinical staff and trainee advanced practitioners within the service line not purely within their own profession. This will be in an associate workplace supervisor role once more than 2 years qualified and at 3 years can be as a coordinating education supervisor (as guided by the specific University) having attended a supervisor training course.

Provide education and development in the delivery of core and specialist training for the service line. The post holder will be expected to support in the creation of an environment of continuous quality improvement, develop clinical practice and care pathways designed around the people within our services and to ensure that delivery of care is regularly reviewed ensuring CQC compliance and embedding NICE and other quality benchmarks in good practice.

Assist in the maintenance of a culture of service improvement which promotes quality and safety and striving to improve and develop.

To support in embedding evidence-based practice, clinical research, supporting a research portfolio for studies within the service line, linking with relevant stakeholders and recruiting patients for studies in fields relevant to their clinical practice.To promote and support patient and public involvement in research. To assist in and undertake local and national audits. To identify and support implementation of service improvement plans. A job plan will be agreed to meet service and role needs, specifying the ratio of contracted hours to be spent delivering direct patients care (maximum 80%) and the time to be spent undertaking supported professional activity (minimum 20%), being reviewed annually or more frequently as required.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Registered professional, (e.g., NMC/HCPC)
• Educated to MSc Degree Level 7 in advanced practice or equivalent, with NHSE Digital Staff badge demonstrating AP accreditation with The Centre for Advancing Practice
• IRM(E)R trained (where relevant to professional background and role)
• Blood product prescriber (where relevant to professional background and role)
• Non-medical prescriber (where relevant to professional background and role)

Desirable

• Teaching and assessing qualification
• Relevant research qualification - e.g., Good Clinical Practice
• Recognized leadership and management course
• Completion of relevant extended role scope competencies

Experience
Essential

• Experience of a senior professional role in relevant clinical specialty
• Enhanced clinical skills relevant to area of clinical practice
• Experienced in managing own caseload of patients as an independent practitioner
• Experience of implementing evidence-based practice
• Experience of working in partnership with multi-disciplinary teams
• Experience in undertaking audit, quality improvement and service evaluation

Desirable

• Experience of teaching and supervising undergraduate students and registered staff
• Experience of teaching and presenting at conference or other external meeting
• Experience of analysis and reporting of data
• Clinical experience of leading health care services within specialty
• Experience of research and implementation of evidence-based practice in relevant clinical specialty
• Experience in undertaking research projects and publishing articles
• Experience of inter-agency working and system delivery

Skills
Essential

• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal, to enable communication with a wide range of stakeholders and for clinical purposes, negotiation, leadership, and influence. This includes managing highly complex communications where there may be barriers to understanding
• Highly developed interpersonal skills, with meticulous attention to detail
• Complex planning and organisational skills
• Evidence of autonomous decision making
• Evidence of problem-solving skills
• Evidence of practice innovation and quality improvement
• IT skills for data management, reporting, presentation, and communication
• Evidence of enhanced clinical skills
• Self-motivated and able to prioritise within a large and varied workload
• Ability to identify and optimise learning opportunities
• Ability to work as part of a team and ability to command respect of the multi-disciplinary team
• Self-motivated, self-starter, and organised
• Flexible and adaptable at work to meet competing priorities
• Able to respond and prioritise unpredictable health presentations and ensure effective interventions are actioned
• Able to work in unpleasant working conditions on occasions, i.e., bodily fluids
• Enhanced knowledge of the multi-professional framework for advanced clinical practice (2025

Knowledge
Essential

• Enhanced knowledge relevant to the specialty area
• Knowledge of Quality Improvement methodologies and experience of successful delivery in practice
• Knowledge of leadership strategies, personal leadership and how to lead successful change in an organisation
• Knowledge of teaching and learning styles
• Safeguarding children and vulnerable adults
• Advanced knowledge of government strategies and policies relating to service and clinical leadership role
• Working knowledge of safety and governance frameworks and standards (including confidentiality/freedom of information/Caldicott regulations/CQC essential standards)
• Working knowledge of nursing, AHP and medical professional issues and developments

Values
Essential

• Ability to demonstrate the organisational values and behaviours of The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

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.
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