Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Cancer Services

Job overview

Do you hold current registration with NMC, HCPC or GPhC? If so, further opportunities have become available to join our growing team of Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACPs) working across University Hospitals of Derby and Burton (UHDB).

Practitioners registered with any of the regulatory bodies stated above, who hold the relevant qualifications, meet the application criteria and are motivated, flexible and experienced with a demonstrable passion for clinical practice are invited to apply.

We are looking for a Qualified Advanced Clinical Practitioner with experience of managing acute presentation in Oncology and Haematology. 

The practitioner must be flexible as the role will require cross site working and working in our assessment unit, chemotherapy units, radiotherapy, inpatient area's and outpatient areas. 

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Advanced Clinical Practice is well established at UHDB and is seen as integral to the delivery of high quality and safe patient care across the Trust. You could be joining an extremely progressive team which continues to develop to meet the needs of our patients.

Training will involve supporting you to become an advanced, skilled, generic practitioner with transferable skills and as such you will be required to be flexible to meet the needs of service.  Trained ACPs will also have the opportunity to discuss rotations within role.

As the Trust strives to provide standardised care to all patients admitted across a seven-day period, you will be required to be available to work a full pattern of shifts including weekends and nights. Cross site working is established within our ACP team and therefore you should be willing to work across both the RDH and QHB sites.

Shift patterns will vary dependent upon area of practice at any given time as care is centred on the service requirements.

Closing date: 7 October 2025

Interview date: 21 October 2025

Working for our organisation

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, including both professional and leadership development
• On-going support through every step of the way from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• A variety of other staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts about our Trust:

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments per day.
• We are the 4^th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England – an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day – 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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