Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Breast Care

Employer Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type NHS

Site Wythenshawe Hospital

Town Manchester

Salary £53,755 - £60,504 per annum, pro rata

Salary period Yearly

Closing 13/04/2025 23:59

Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Breast Care

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Job overview

Are you interested in joining our Breast team as an ACP, full time on a 12 month, fixed term maternity cover?

There has never been a better time to be an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP), and the opportunities for you at Manchester Foundation Trust are amazing. We’re committed to providing the best patient and family experience, so we’re proud to nurture and support our Advanced Clinical Practitioners. As one of the largest Trusts in England, and as a teaching hospital for one of the largest cities in the country, we have a strong track record of achieving NHS performance targets and delivering excellent clinical outcomes.

The WTWA (Wythenshawe, Trafford, Withington and Altrincham) Division of Surgery and Theatres is excited to offer a unique opportunity to recruit a dynamic experienced and motivated Advanced Clinical Practitioner to work as part of our friendly and talented Breast Care Team based in the Nightingale Centre.

The successful candidate will be provided with a robust induction and personal development plan to meet their professional development needs.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will strive to deliver high quality care to all patients. This role will be pivotal in providing clinical expertise in the delivery of the future models of care for greater Manchester. The Nightingale Centre is a renowned centre of excellence for breast care with strong working relationships with both Macmillan and Prevent.

ACP's will be given an educational and clinical Consultant supervisor who will provide guidance and feedback whilst developing your portfolio, working towards the 4 pillars of advanced practice, enhancing your clinical skills providing safe patient care. All ACP's at MFT are supported to participate and lead on research, service development and audit. Strong links exist with the local Higher Education Institutes which provides opportunities for our ACPs to develop their teaching and education skills as part of their role. You will have professional development time and weekly teaching which is provided by the Consultant team within WTWA. The successful candidate will be educated to Masters Level, including independent non-medical prescribing. Our aim is to improve the sustainability, quality and efficiency of services, enhance integrated services with the community and improve care pathways, delivering a truly person-centered service.

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

Person specification

Qualifications

• Educated to Masters Level in Advanced Practice
• Speciality qualification
• Teaching qualification
• Non-medical prescriber

Experience

• Excellent clinical skills
• Experience of working autonomously and as part of a team
• Awareness of national and local targets, NSF frameworks, Policy

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.

Name Katy Ellis

Job title Nurse Consultant

Email address kathryn.ellis2@mft.nhs.uk

For further information please contact:

Katy Ellis

Nurse Consultant

Nightingale Centre

Wythenshawe Hospital

Email: katy.ellis2@mft.nhs.uk