Acute Oncology Nurse Practitioner

The post holder will manage a dedicated caseload, engage with community organisations, and provide support to young parents while ensuring high standards of care. Key responsibilities include data reporting, advising healthcare professionals, safeguarding, and offering family planning guidance. This role emphasises effective communication and collaboration within acute and primary health care settings, positioning the midwife as a clinical expert and resource for the community. Main duties of the job

• Caseload Management : Responsible for overseeing a caseload of pregnant young parents, ensuring comprehensive and continuous midwifery care throughout their pregnancy.
• Community Engagement : Attend young parent pregnancy forums and establish connections with health, statutory, and voluntary organisations to support young parents effectively.
• Data Collection and Reporting : Provide statistics on the care provided to pregnant young parents and evaluate outcomes to inform service improvements.
• Advisory Role : Offer guidance and information to other midwives and health professionals, promoting engagement with services and ensuring high standards of care for young parents.
• Communication Skills : Utilise excellent communication skills to facilitate participation in young parents' pregnancy groups, addressing sensitive and potentially contentious issues with empathy and professionalism.
• Safeguarding Expertise : Maintain a strong understanding of safeguarding procedures, collaborating with Social Services and contributing to case conferences and strategy meetings as necessary.
• Family Planning Knowledge : Provide informed advice on family planning to assist young parents in avoiding subsequent pregnancies.
• Comprehensive Care Delivery : Deliver midwifery care across acute and primary health care settings, prioritising tasks to ensure efficient and effective service delivery
  
  Post-graduate level qualification or equivalent experience.
• Mentorship course.
• Management qualification or equivalent experience RN1 / RN2 / RN12 or RN Child
• Registered Midwife on the NMC register.
Skills Essential criteria
• Up to date knowledge of current clinical and professional issues.
• Awareness of government led and professional issues relating to midwifery / women and birthing people centred care
• Ability to identify women and birthing people and staff issues and proactive in addressing of these.
• Ability to administer prescribed medication including blood products
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.
• Strong leadership and team working skills.
• Computer skills including the ability to use Microsoft Word and other health databases.
Experience Essential criteria
• Experience of managing an area; including management of rotas, resources, budgets and staff. Experience in staff / practice development including undertaking appraisals and Personal development plans.
• Experience of audit / research-based midwifery practice.
• Experience of resource management.
• Experience of Clinical Supervision
  
  MTW is a large acute hospital trust in the south-east of England.
We provide a full range of general hospital services and some aspects of specialist and complex care to around 600,000 people living in west Kent and East Sussex. We have a team of over 8,000 full and part-time staff. We also provide specialist cancer services to around 2 million people across Kent and East Sussex via the Kent Oncology Centre. In the 2024 NHS staff survey, our employees ranked MTW among the top 10 NHS Trusts nationwide and the second-best Trust to work for in the South East. Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.

The programme is full-time (please email if this is problematic) and will involve travel to both Trust sites. The programme includes supernumerary shifts in the clinical area, classroom-based sessions and e-learning. Please note that appointment to this post will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure & Barring Service Check at Enhanced Level. Enhanced level now includes regulated checks against vulnerable adults and children) At MTW, we seek to develop a culture where everyone can reach their full potential with opportunities to grow and develop their career. We recognise and value the unique contributions that each of our staff bring, delivering the best quality care and service to our patients. We are committed to being a diverse employer and strive to reflect everyone in our local communities. We welcome applications from people of diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experiences and celebrate the diversity of thought, viewpoints and ideas that will make our Trust the best place to work. We support our staff with disabilities to ensure they have the adjustments they need to be the best they can be in the workplace. Collaborating with Access to Work means that our staff are assessed by experts in the workplace and we ensure that their recommendations are implemented as quickly as possible. You can find out more here : Access to Work : get support if you have a disability or health condition : What Access to Work is - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) Interview Date : To be confirmed Please note that this role may often attract a high level of applications. Please note this role may close earlier than the original closing date so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible Person specification