Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Acute Oncology team in cancer services, in the Macmillan Renton Unit. We are a satellite site for Cheltenham visiting Oncologists. We do not have Oncology inpatient bed base, therefore the Acute Oncology team are pivotal in ensuring a clear link between Oncology and WVT teams.  The successful candidate will provide day to day leadership in the delivery of cancer services across the organisation, exercising advanced clinical skills, levels of judgement, discretion and decision-making.

The acute oncology service is a seven day a week service, ensuring our cancer patients get the right care at the right time, in the right place. 

The role requires considerable tenacity and autonomous thinking to ensure that the right escalations, clinical actions and advice is made to ensure that the patient pathway to treatment is not subject to unnecessary delays. 

Main duties of the job

• To act as an autonomous practitioner, making critical clinical decisions 
• The post holder will extend clinical practice and standards of care within the acute oncology service, including development of policies, protocols and guidelines and contribute to service improvement in collaboration with multidisciplinary colleagues. 
• To improve outcomes for patients by improving cancer services and quality of cancer care. Radiology may report incidental findings
• To act as a resource for junior doctors and registered nurses requiring specialist support.
• To act as a resource for patients requiring specialist support, particularly for patients who have no site specific nurse specialist.
• To act as an interface between medical practitioners, nursing staff, the multidisciplinary team, patients and carers
• To support medical staff in the management of patients with a known or suspected malignant diagnosis. 

Working for our organisation

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we’d want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”

Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.