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Main area
317 Newcastle Oncology's ACP's
Grade
Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
317-2025-48-037
Employer
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Trustwide
Town
317 Trustwide
Salary
£55,690 - £62,682 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
04/01/2026 23:59
Interview date
27/01/2026

Employer heading

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

NMAHP Consultant (Gynae-Oncology)

Band 8a

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS hospital trusts in the country.  We have around 16,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.7 billion.

With strong history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation regionally, nationally and internationally,  we’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country. 

As well as providing a wide range of hospital and community services, we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.

Job overview

We are seeking an exceptional and experienced nurse to become a Nurse Consultant within the Gynae-oncology team. The already established Clinical Nurse Specialist service is to be further strengthened with this invaluable new additional. The individual will bring gynae-oncology experience and expertise into our workforce, working alongside Clinical Nurse Specialists and Medical and Clinical Oncologists.

As a Nurse Consultant you will provide high level of expert clinical advice and leadership, support and deliver education and professional development and assist in research and quality improvement projects.

Working alongside clinical colleagues, the successful individual will reduce waiting times to see specialist oncology practitioners, provide resilience to the service and improve patient experience. 

This is a very exciting opportunity for an individual with a passion for patient care in the gynae-oncology setting. 

  • Interview Date Tuesday 27 January 2026
  • 37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week
  • You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy.  Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy

NO AGENCIES PLEASE

Main duties of the job

-    Advanced and expert level practice 

  • The post holder will be an experienced health care practitioner, with highly developed expertise and experience and will provide clinical services to target patient population and will work alongside medical oncology consultant colleagues in own nurse led clinics. They will review patients undergoing active treatment and will be able to account for treatment related toxicities and assess for treatment response based on agree protocols

-    Leaderships and consultancy 

  • The postholder will provide clinical leadership to clinical nurse specialists and to resident doctors and trainees within the team. The postholder will provide expert opinion clinical opinion to other members of the team and oncological advice to other specialties as is required

-    Development and provision of education and training

  • The postholder, in collaboration with consultant medical staff, will develop and deliver education and training to other staff in the team and will help with developing SOPs and guidelines relevant to the sub-specialty

-    Service development, evaluation, research and audit

  • The postholder will actively contribute to clinical research and audits and will help develop services as needed to meet increasing demands and complexity. The post holder will contribute to the clinical effectiveness register through audit, research, and service developments

 

Working for our organisation

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:

These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS. 

We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.

For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will improve the experience and outcomes of patients by providing a highly expert service. 

  • To contribute to the professional development of ‘the profession’ within the organisation and nationally.
  • To provide expert practice, advice and consultancy for patients, carers and colleagues, within specialist area, locally and nationally.
  • To lead practice and service developments, ensuring the maintenance of clinical excellence, underpinned by evidence based practice.
  • To undertake complex audit projects, as a major job responsibility, using research methodology designs to evaluate inter-professional systems, which aim to maintain quality in line with local and national guidelines, working towards initiation of nursing research.
  • To influence, deliver and shape the development of multi-professional education and training locally and nationally.
  • To influence the development of their profession locally and nationally.
  • Acting as a role model.
  • A highly visible clinical role.

Person specification

Qualifications & Education

Essential criteria
  • Registered Nurse, Midwife or AHP
  • Current NMC/HCPC registration
  • Possession of a master’s degree or established on pathway and able to provide evidence of academic achievement at this level
  • Evidence of post graduate specialist education related to area of clinical expertise
Desirable criteria
  • Possession of or working towards a Doctorate

Knowledge & Experience

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of Supervision and assessment in practice
  • Knowledge and understanding of relevant NHS policy or project specific policy context
  • Has understanding / experience of adult / child safeguarding
  • Highly developed advanced specialist in field and applies theory to practice
  • Has expert knowledge in practice, research, education, and leadership in specialist area and within the field of your profession
  • Extensive experience of clinical work in specialist area
  • Audit / research experience
  • Extensive clinical and leadership experience in the specialist field
  • Experience of contributing to the development of your profession at a regional / national level
Desirable criteria
  • Experience / evidence of professional leadership in relation to their service at a regional and/or national level

Skills & Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Good IT skills
  • Effective report writing skills
  • Effective organisation and time management skills
  • Ability to prioritise a complex workload and work in a rapidly changing environment
  • Acts autonomously and independently within appropriate organisational boundaries and achieve results and outcomes based on own decision making
  • Is able to assimilate risk / benefits and rationalise decision based on extensive knowledge, skills & experience
  • Current driving licence if relevant to role
  • Moving and handling patients and objects in line with Trust guidelines using appropriate aids

Employer certification / accreditation badges

We are a Living Wage EmployerVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardRIDI Awards Finalist 2021Mindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerStonewall Gold 2022Better Health at Work Award - Maintaining ExcellenceDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - GoldCycle Friendly EmployerNational Preceptorship for Nursing Quality Mark 2024

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Peter Towns
Job title
Associate Director of Nursing
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01912826975
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