# Advanced Nurse Practitioner

**Company**: The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Sutton
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: fixed-term
**Salary**: £66,274 to £73,496 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

An opportunity has arisen for a Band 8a Advanced Nurse Practitioner in Clinical Research within the GI and Lymphoma team at the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust in Sutton and Chelsea.

The post holder will be working with the multi-disciplinary team in the GI and Lymphoma unit, performing both clinical and research work. The ANPR is a highly experienced oncology nurse who will work autonomously or with medical colleagues, demonstrating highly developed specialist knowledge and skills in the diagnosis and management of cancer research participants.

The successful applicant should have a flexible approach to their duties and the ability to work both as part of the team as well as independently. Excellent communication, administrative and IT skills and being supportive and open to new initiatives are particularly valued by the team.

**Main duties of the job**

- To be professionally and legally accountable for all work undertaken and to practice at an advanced level of professional autonomy and accountability that is within national guidelines, Royal Marsden Trust policies, GCP and NMC Codes of Conduct.

- To act as a key worker to patients with cancer, providing continuity throughout the patient journey, both within the Royal Marsden and the wider referral network.

- To perform health assessments including obtaining a clinical history, conducting the physical examination and assessment of psychological well-being.

- To counsel patients, explain the rationale for clinical trials as well as the structure and the expectations required of patients entering clinical trials.

- To have knowledge and understanding of alternative non-trial treatments, facilitating the informed consent process.

- To consent patients to clinical trials, including non-CTIMP trials and selected CTIMP trials as delegated by the Principal Investigator and with the approval of the trial sponsor.

**Benefits**

- Opportunities to develop your clinical and research skills.

- Continuous on-going learning with internal and external courses available.

- Flexible working arrangements available.

- Working as a highly valued member of the MDT.

**Person Specification**

- First level NMC registration / Degree in relevant subject

- Relevant experience post First Level Registration in an acute setting and clinical research nursing

- MSc Advanced Practice or Evidence of Level 7 study working towards MSc in Advanced Practice and willingness to undertake required study to complete MSc studies.

- Teaching qualification/Experience

- Non - Medical prescribing or willingness to undertake

- Evidence of recent continued professional development

## Skills

### Required
- Advanced Nurse Practitioner
- Clinical Research
- Oncology
- Nursing
- Prescribing
- GCP
- NMC Codes of Conduct

### Nice to have
- ICH GCP Certificate
- Advanced Life Support/Immediate Life Support

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