Advance Nurse Practitioner - Oncology

Job Title: Advance Nurse Practitioner - Oncology

Department: Oncology Services

Location: Cromwell Hospital, 164-178 Cromwell Road, Kensington SW5 0TU

Contract: Permanent

Salary range: £Attractive

Hours: Full-Time, 37.5 hours per week

Days: Monday to Friday (8am-4pm or 9am-5pm)

Close Date For Applications: 31st August 2025

A superb time to join us at the Cromwell Hospital!

At Bupa, you can be the Nurse you want to be. With the autonomy to use your skills and strong benefits to support you, patient care can be your top priority. Building a career in Nursing has never been easier, with good hours, you can live a balanced, healthy lifestyle.

About The Cromwell Hospital

The Cromwell Hospital is a major international private hospital in West London receive both UK and international patients. We are committed to providing the highest quality healthcare outpatient and inpatient service care. The hospital has 180 beds and 4 suites, 6 theatres, medical and surgical wards, cardiac centre, CDU, level 2 and 3 full intensive care facilities, paediatrics, diagnostic services, physiotherapy, and a dedicated day surgery unit.

We make health happen

The Advance Nurse Practitioner will be a competent key member of staff within the Oncology Service, working in acute settings as an autonomous healthcare professional, who collaborates with the RMO’s, the Modern Matron, Nurse Specialists, and the wider MDT across the hospital.

You will provide clinical expertise in advance assessments, diagnosing, treatment and evaluation of adult patients within our Oncology Ward and Chemotherapy Day Unit (CDU), ensuring high quality, safe and efficient care to our patients whilst following best clinical practice, and high standard of care.

You’ll be a be a prescriber with V300 certification to prescribe, MSc in Advance Clinical Practice, with substantial post qualification in Oncology Nursing, and a confident autonomous worker making clinical decisions in a high pressured environment.

How you’ll help us make health happen:

• Undertake comprehensive patient assessments including history-taking, physical examination, and diagnostic formulation.
• Manage acutely unwell adult patients independently within scope of practice.
• Initiate and interpret diagnostic investigations, including pathology and radiological (ionising radiation) scans in accordance with IR(ME)R regulations.
• Prescribe and review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with evidence-based practice and national and practice protocols, and within scope of practice.
• Formulate differential diagnoses, investigation and treatment plans, reiterating findings back to the named consultant and initiating appropriate referrals or escalation as required.
• Facilitate patient admissions, transfers, and safe, timely discharges.
• Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions, modifying care as appropriate.
• Round patients under their care daily with the nursing team and other members of the MDT and report to the named consultant any concerns.
• Work within their level of competence and locally agreed guidelines to facilitate care packages tailored to meet the needs of the patients.
• Support clinical governance activities, including audits, incident reporting, and quality improvement initiatives.
• Act as a clinical resource and mentor for junior staff, nurses, and trainee ACPs.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of clinical guidelines, pathways, and hospital protocols.
• Promote a culture of excellence, safety, and continuous professional development.
• Responsible for maintaining excellent standards and ensuring that standards are monitored regularly and where appropriate corrective action is taken in conjunction with the CQC.

Close Date For Applications: 31st August 2025

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:

• V300 - independent prescribing certificate (essential)
• Adult Register NMC Pinned - with no restrictions to practice (essential)
• Able to evidence CPD (essential)
• MSc Advance Clinical Practice (essential)
• Experience working in acute oncology settings (essential)
• ILS
• Child & Adult Safeguarding certificate

Benefits:

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

• Equivalent to 25 days holiday per year, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
• Enhanced pension and life insurance
• Support with travel costs via a season ticket loan or cycle2work
• Discounted access to online gym sessions
• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
• Option to join dental insurance scheme at a discounted rate
• Access to our Digital GP platform on you mobile
• Emotional wellbeing support
• Access to family mental health line
• Financial wellbeing channels
• Support for carers

Why Bupa?

We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

If you require information regarding this role in an alternative format, please email: [email protected]

At Bupa we strive to ensure all our of customers, patients and staff are safe. All employees have a duty to ensure that safeguarding children, young people and adults at risk is prioritised and acted on appropriately.