Job summary
- Main area
- Urology
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Potential for weekend working)
- Job ref
- 153-SU04476
- Employer
- University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Bournemouth Hospital
- Town
- Bournemouth
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Urology Lead Advanced Clinical Practitioner
Band 8a
As University Hospitals Dorset we are a three site acute trust with ‘university hospital’ status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.
We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.
In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with over seven miles of sandy beaches you’ll find inspirational opportunities to achieve your perfect work/life balance. With the New Forest and the Purbecks on our doorstep, we’re also less than three hours from London by road or train. The thriving towns of Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch give way to idyllic villages and unspoilt landscapes just minutes from our hospitals.
We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming and productive place to work.
We especially welcome applications from minority groups in the community who may be underrepresented in our workforce.
At UHD our active staff network groups are the Women's Network, Black Asian Minority Ethnic Group (BAME), Pride Network, European (EU), Pro Ability Staff Network, and the Armed Forces Support Group.
As a Trust we are proudly signed up to the Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant guaranteed interview schemes.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our UHD Urology Service.
This is a new post and we are seeking applicants with a background in Urology who are innovative and visionary, to work in conjunction with our Clinicians and lead our urology specialist nursing teams.
Working with the team ,the successful candidate will also develop new pathways and transform services, oversee and deliver the fast track prostate service and to drive high quality care for patients accessing our services.
This role requires an active professional registration with a relevant professional body
Base Location: Royal Bournemouth Hospital
Interview Date: TBC
Main duties of the job
- Be responsible for rapid assessment, diagnostics, & treatment of individuals within Urology using advanced level of professional accountability, autonomy & judgement, underpinned by Masters level theory & experience. This includes highly complex decision-making across a broad range of differentiated & undifferentiated presentations & complex situations, synthesising information from multiple sources to appropriate, evidence-based judgements and/or diagnoses.
- Provide leadership to Urology ACP, ECP & CNS teams & work with the service & directorate to determine priority workload of team
- Plan & manage complete episodes of care, work in collaboration with consultants & others, delegate and refer as appropriate, to ensure timely, effective management & optimise health outcomes, in line with the evidence base & nationally recognised best practice.
- To play a key role & maintain a pro-active approach to developing, leading clinical pathways & flow.
- Work with the MDT, lead Urology ACP/ECP/CNS services in delivery of high quality, performance & financial frameworks.
- Promote & implement service & policy development & redesign, impacting beyond own area & other disciplines, informed by current best practice & evidence-base, in accordance with values-based care of the trust.
- Be a resource to others, develop, deliver & evaluate a range of relevant specialist education & development for individuals & large groups, including the wider MDT, both internally & external to the trust.
Working for our organisation
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have about this at interview.
Please note if the role or service is relocated as part of a planned move, employees will not be eligible for excess mileage reimbursement. Travel from the postholder's home to the new work base will be considered a normal commute. Any other changes not related to this relocation will be managed according to the relevant Trust or National terms and condition
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional Registration with relevant professional body
- Masters level Advanced Clinical Practice
Desirable criteria
- Recognition as Advanced Practitioner by the National Centre for Advancing Practice
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable experience of working independently at a Band 7 Clinical role
- Application of advanced clinical skills into practice, with surgery specialty focus.
- Experience of service and practice development and managing change
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working across organisational boundaries
Knowledge and skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable theoretical and practical knowledge of urological specialty common presentations.
- Computer literacy with a range of software, databases, spreadsheets
- Successful team player and skills to lead/motivate others.
- Drive for improvement with the proven ability to set and meet ambitious targets and monitor against targets.
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
- Louise Coll
- Job title
- Senior Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07824 550812
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