Lead Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Oncology

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Lead Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Oncology

The closing date is 02 November 2025

The Lead Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) is a highly skilled clinician and manager responsible for leading the ACP workforce across the Calderdale, Huddersfield and Mid Yorkshire Non-Surgical Oncology Partnership. Ensuring safe, high-quality patient care. The post-holder will oversee the operational management of the ACP team, ensuring appropriate workforce planning, governance, and financial control to optimise service delivery.

The post-holder will drive service improvement, workforce development, and clinical excellence in line with national guidelines and NHS strategic objectives and local partnership strategic objectives across the Partnership. The Lead ACP will be based across both trusts, providing strong, visible leadership to ensure a high standard of advanced practice and professional governance across the organisations.

The Lead ACP will work across professional and organisational boundaries, supporting the integration of services, enhancing patient outcomes, and contributing to clinical governance, education, and research.

The postholder is expected to lead consensus building discussions, drawing on a high level of specialist knowledge, clinical evidence, and national guidance to make decisions that support safe, effective care while balancing organisational objectives and professional standards.

Main duties of the job

• Clinical Leadership and Practice
• Patient Flow and Service Delivery
• Research and Quality Improvement
• Education and Workforce Development
• Governance and Compliance
• Budget and Financial Responsibilities
• Workforce and Staffing Management

About us

CHFT is an integrated Trust of 6,500+ colleagues providing hospital and community services to patients and communities across Calderdale and Kirklees. We are rated as 'Good' by the Care Quality Commission, are a top performing Trust for Elective Recovery, Emergency and Cancer Care and widely acknowledged as a national digital lead when it comes to caring for people across our local and regional systems.

Our people are at the core of everything we do, hence our commitment to One Culture of Care. Our focus is to care for and support each other in order to provide outstanding compassionate care to our patients. That is why we are looking for an inclusive collaborative, creative, innovative and compassionate leader to join us in this role.

Person Specification QUALIFICATIONS / TRAINING

• Registered Nurse or AHP
• MSc Advanced Practice
• Evidence of continued professional development
• Recognised teaching qualification
• Leadership/Management Qualification (e.g ILM Level 5, CMI, MSc) or willingness to undertake
• Non medical radiology referral competence
• GCP Research Certificate
• PhD or working towards

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE

• Demonstrable current experience and level of working mapped to consultant level of practice for ACCEND/RCN
• Significant Post registration experience in senior ACP Role
• Experience of managing and leading a multidisciplinary team
• Proven experience of service development, quality improvement
• Experience of Budget management, cost improvement and resource allocation
• Demonstrable ability to influence change and manage complex projects
• Operational management experience within Oncology service
• Awareness of own limitations
• Understand the national specialty and professional agenda
• IT literate and excellent presentation skills.
• Experience in delivering clinical education and supervision.
• Experience in developing new clinical pathways
• Experience of developing and implementing service related policies for specialty
• Experience undertaking own caseload in clinic
• Audit / research experience - Associate PI or working towards
• Experience in developing business cases and service proposals
• Published research or conference presentations - or willingness to commit to yearly publication.
• Knowledge of current health issues which may influence role

COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS (INCLUDING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES)

• Excellent communication, organisation and negotiation skills
• Assertive, confident yet approachable
• Calm and objective
• Ability to motivate self and other
• Ability to deal with complex and difficult emotional situations
• Ability to manage complex professional relationships
• Demonstrable ability to influence change and manage complex projects
• Awareness of own limitations
• Flexible attitude to working

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust / Mid Yorkshire Teaching Hospital

£64,455 to £74,896 a year, pro rata

Contract

Secondment

Working pattern

Full time, Job share

Reference number

372-MED2497

Job locations

Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust / Mid Yorkshire Teaching Hospital