Senior Staff Nurse Oncology Day Care

Job summary

• The safe administration of systemic anticancer therapy (SACT) and supportive care in an outpatient setting.
• To act as a professional role model, leading and co-ordinating the nursing team on allocated shifts.
• To support the Senior and Junior sisters as required and to deputise for them if needed.
• To work collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team.

Main duties of the job

• An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated Senior Staff Nurse to join the team on the Trevor Howell Oncology Day Unit, on a full time post (37.5 hours/week).
• The successful applicants will join a highly skilled specialist team that offer treatments including SACT and supportive therapies to patients with solid tumours as well as malignant haematological conditions.
• The candidate will ideally possess a recognised chemotherapy course and will need to have experience in administering SACT, in addition to having excellent venepuncture and cannulation skills, organisational, leadership, time management and communication skills.
• The post holder will be expected to provide and maintain high standards of care to our patients, meeting trust values, be able to work autonomously as well as part of a cohesive team and demonstrate the ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care to this group of patients.
• You will need to be able to work well under pressure and cope with conflicting demands.
• If you would like to be involved in a forward looking department, have the skills to contribute and enjoy a challenge, we would like to hear from you.

About us

With nearly9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.Their main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases.

The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.