Job summary
- Main area
- Oncology
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 318-25-T0733
- Employer
- Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Cheltenham General Hospital
- Town
- Cheltenham
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 (pa, pro rata if part-time)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/12/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Nurse Practitioner - SACT team, Band 7
Band 7
At Gloucestershire Hospitals, our people are at the heart of everything we do. As the county’s largest employer, we are proud to provide high-quality acute, elective, and specialist services to more than 650,000 people across our county. Our care is delivered across Gloucestershire Royal, Cheltenham General and Stroud Maternity Hospital.
With over 9,000 employees representing more than 95 nationalities, bringing together a mix of cultures and experiences to the care that we deliver. Whether you’re beginning your NHS journey or looking to take the next step in your career, this is an exciting time to join us. We’re investing heavily in innovation, research, and transformation, with more than 100 active clinical studies and major developments underway across our hospitals.
We take pride in working as one team, driven by a shared ambition to grow, develop, and continually improve. Every contribution is valued and by combining our collective strengths, we support not only our diverse communities but one another. You can expect a warm, supportive culture and colleagues who are passionate about teamwork, professional development and delivering exceptional care. We offer structured development programmes, mentoring and leadership opportunities to help you progress in your career.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone feels they belong. By joining our Trust, you will benefit from a comprehensive package that includes flexible working opportunities, generous annual leave, the NHS pension scheme, competitive bank rates, local discounts, access to on-site nurseries, reduced public transport costs, reward and recognition schemes and a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
Be part of Gloucestershire Hospitals, explore your future with us today.
Job overview
Nurse Practitioner in Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT) Band 7
Based in the Oncology centre at Cheltenham General Hospital, the Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT) nurse practitioner team are looking for a member of staff to join & enhance the team.
We are looking for someone with a keen interest in oncology, with knowledge of cancer and cancer treatments and experience of looking after patients with a cancer diagnosis.
The successful candidate will hold non medical prescribing, physical assessment and clinical reasoning, Pathophysiology and Diagnostics Reasoning qualifications, and ideally be experienced in assessing and prescribing SACT.
This is a full time position of 37.5hours at Band 7.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will work along side both nurse practitioners, pharmacists and medical colleagues to provide assessment of fitness for SACT.
This role will include daily contact with patients and their relatives for assessment and management of side effects of treatment both face to face clinics and on the telephone. Alongside, mid cycle reviews, assessment for signs of disease progression. Working as an autonomous practitioner within the Trust making clinical decisions independently when diagnosing, monitoring and managing oncology patients.
The individual will develop high levels of clinical assessment skills and advanced communication skills. They will work closely with the outpatient chemotherapy team to provide support SACT administration with review of concerns, side effects and reactions and contribute to the education of junior staff.
Within the speciality of oncology and personal competence to prescribe medications including chemotherapy/immunotherapy as an independent prescriber within their scope.
Request investigations and interpret and act on results e.g bloods, CT scans, MRI scans, Xray, US
Working for our organisation
We are a team of 7 nurse practitioners who work across a variety of tumour sites and consultant teams. We work together to cover a number of nurse led telephone and face to face clinics, also supporting consultant clinics through out the week. We support the wider oncology department providing teaching and support via a bleep for chemotherapy toxicity questions/problems
We are a busy team but work hard to ensure best practice. We lead and support change projects focused on improving patient care and experience and work within the wider oncology team to implement best practice.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This job requires practitioners to work with an Enhanced level of Practice, this is experienced practitioners who work in a role which requires in-depth role specific cancer knowledge and skills or training following registration, for example cancer treatment administration/side effect management/site or pathway specific to undertake complex work managing a discrete aspect of patient care related to their sphere of practice.
Practitioners at this level:
- Require a critical understanding of detailed theoretical and practical knowledge, which can be generalist with a special interest and/or specialist knowledge and have management and leadership responsibilities
- May have specialist knowledge, skills and capabilities related to sphere of practice
- Consult with patients, their family and the multi-professional team to undertake assessment of patient need and devise and evaluate complex care plans
- Evaluate and analyse clinical problems using their clinical knowledge, seeking out and applying relevant evidence, enhanced techniques, interventions and equipment to make clinical decisions
- Deliver enhanced clinical care in the context of continual change, challenging environments, different models of care delivery, innovation and rapidly evolving technologies using analysis and their underpinning knowledge to manage complex interventions
- Teach and advise patients and their families on how to manage their condition or support the multidisciplinary team to do so
- Participate in clinical audits and research projects and implement changes as required, including the development, and updating of practice protocols/ guidelines and procedures locally
- Work within national and local protocols where these exist
- Recognise the boundaries of their practice and know when and to whom patients should be referred
- May delegate work to other members of the multidisciplinary team and take accountability for their delegated activity
- Demonstrate initiative and are creative in finding solutions to problems
- Have some responsibility for team performance and service development and they consistently undertake self-development.
Please get in touch if you would like more information or a visit to the dept:
Contact Details
Oncology ANP (SACT) team on 0300 422 3636
Deputy Divisional Director for Quality and Nursing - Tracey Cullerne 07929 369642
Person specification
Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Current NMC registration
- Non medical prescribing qualification
- Pathophysiology and Diagnostic Reasoning for Advanced Practice (PADRAP)
- Advanced communication qualification
- Extensive years post registration experience
- Experience assessing and prescribing SACT
- Physical Assessment & Clinical Reasoning (PACR)
Desirable criteria
- Leadership or quality improvement experience
- SACT qualification
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Tracey Cullerne
- Job title
- Deputy Director for Quality and Nursing (D&S)
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07929 369642
- Additional information
Contact Details
Oncology ANP (SACT) team on 0300 422 3636
Deputy Divisional Director for Quality and Nursing - Tracey Cullerne 07929 369642
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