Job overview
The diagnostic team works within the outpatient service and delivers diagnostic services in the bladder cancer and prostate cancer pathways. The main focus of this Trainee Advanced Nurse/Clinical Practitioner role will be to work closely with the other nurse practitioners in the diagnostic team, as well as working with the uro-oncology nursing team & members of the wider multidisciplinary team in the different cancer pathways and linking with benign services. You will not only be performing advanced skilled interventions but you will be using your clinical expertise to interpret your findings, make further requests for other diagnostics, as well as referring on to further practitioners or GP. This will be done within the structured academic and clinical training of an Advanced Practice Master's Degree (MSc Level )
Main duties of the job
The following duties are specific to the Advanced Nurse/Clinical Practitioner role. This is not an exhaustive list. It is unlikely that you will become competent in all these duties; where possible personal interest will be taken into consideration, but service requirements will take priority when deciding your roles within the team. You will receive any training necessary to become competent within the role in keeping with the Band job description, national and local requirements.
·Requesting of radiology diagnostic and staging scans
·Flexible cystoscopy – bladder cancer checks; week wait suspected bladder cancer diagnostic cystoscopy; stent removal
·Transurethral Laser Ablation for recurrent bladder cancer
·Prostate biopsy – including Direct Access clinics for suspected prostate cancer; transrectal and transperineal prostate biopsy; MRI result telephone clinics; prostate cancer active surveillance clinics
·Develop and provide comprehensive clinical care, specialist advice, and support to patients in Urology Diagnosticservice.
Develop experience as an advanced, autonomous practitioner, alongside members of the multidisciplinary team in Urology service.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
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