Advanced Nurse Practitioner for Breast Diganostics

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust ,
Maidstone, Kent
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Would you like to be a leading nurse clinician working as an advanced practitioner working as part of a dynamic multidisciplinary team? At Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells there is an excellent opportunity for a highly skilled nurse specialist. You will exercise advanced clinical expertise, examination skills, and levels of judgement, discretion and decision-making in clinical care. You will provide advanced clinical skills and advice demonstrating a sound understanding of the issues related to the identification, assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of patients for breast cancer. You will support diagnostics in the one-stop clinic and convey benign results to patients negating the need for patients to come back to the consultant clinics. You will help deliver timely communication of imaging results, independently run clinics for review of patients reporting a physical clinical concern and contact and support patients in whom a mammographic abnormality has been detected during the process of further investigation. You will be integral to the further development of the breast diagnostic to include appropriate holistic needs assessment and patient reported outcome measures for the breast service with opportunities for teaching, audit, research and further career development. The post requires advanced clinical expertise, excellent communication and examination skills, team-working and levels of judgement, discretion and decision-making in clinical care along with a sound understanding of the issues related to the identification, assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of patients for breast cancer. The breast team is friendly and supportive, welcoming new ideas and innovative developments in patient care. We are a clinically led organisation that strives to achieve the best for our staff and fundamentally for our patients. If you are a kind and enthusiastic clinician, motivating leader, knowledgeable educator and nurturing mentor who is keen to run and develop a fantastic service then you belong with us. You will be expected to attend the Trust's Induction Programme for RNs, RMs and ODPs (which starts on the first day of employment). The programme is full-time (please contact the programme lead if this is problematic: nicola.henthorn@nhs.net), lasts for two weeks and will involve travelling to both Trust sites. The programme includes supernumerary shifts in the clinical area and classroom-based study days which run from 9am to 5pm. Please note that appointment to this post will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure & Barring Service Check at enhanced level. (Enhanced level now includes regulated checks against vulnerable adults and children) We are passionate in supporting our staff to develop and have great opportunities for career progression. We take equality and diversity seriously and seek to empower all diverse groups within our trust. We seek to develop a culture where diversity in all its forms is celebrated. We are committed to ensuring that women are empowered to work at all levels of management and that working patterns are as flexible as possible giving all members of staff opportunity to flourish in using their skills for our patients. We work across our trust to enable those who consider themselves to have a disability both visible and invisible to have access to all they need to thrive in their work environment. We work with Stonewall to embed an inclusive and accepting culture for all lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender staff. We have 78 nationalities working in our trust and we are proud of this. We are active in embracing the ethnic and cultural diversity in our trust. We work to empower people with any protected characteristic to have opportunities to work in an environment that helps them to contribute to the best of their ability, recognising and valuing the unique contributions each of us brings for best quality care and service to our patients. We are committed to supporting the delivery of the Equality Act with zero tolerance for any discrimination, harassment or victimisation of applicants and staff with these protected characteristics Closing Date: Monday 29th June 2020 Interview Date: To be confirmed For further details / informal visits contact: Mrs Ritchie Chalmers Consultant Breast and Oncoplastic Surgeon MTW Trust Lead Cancer Clinician Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust NHS secretaries: Beverley Davison-White, 01622 225723 b.davisonwhite@nhs.net Monday to Friday 8 - 4 Marie Meakings, 01892 635972 marie.meakings@nhs.net Wednesday/Thursday 8 - 4 Daniel Lyons General Manager Surgical Specialities Daniel.lyons@nhs.net Contact: 07591389154 Employment Type: FULL_TIME

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