Senior Oncology Staff Nurse

Job description

Job responsibilities

Senior Oncology Staff Nurse Guildford Hospital | Oncology | Permanent | Full Time | Includes weekend work Salary up to £45,000 per annum depending on skills and experience 37.5 hours per week Nuffield Health is the UK's largest Healthcare Charity. From our innovative healthcare and leisure facilities to our community access programmes, we're committed to building a healthier nation. Inside our award-winning hospitals, this starts with commitment to quality and the highest standards of patient care. It starts with you. As a Senior Oncology Staff Nurse in our hospital, you'll be attentive, driven, detail-oriented and empathetic. You're registered with the appropriate governing body, and you bring the qualifications and experience relevant to your registration, including NMC. With post-registration experience, you're a team player with a passion for exceptional patient care. We are looking for an experienced Senior SACT Nurse who also has experience managing cohorts of prostate patients. In the absence of a Prostate/Onc-Urology CNS this position will allow us to provide enhanced support to our Uro-Oncologists and patients in this growing area with a view to creating a Onc-urology CNS position to cover all aspects of urology cancers (bladder, prostate and testicular) in the future. As a Senior Oncology Staff Nurse, you will: * Have experience in Oncology and have a UKONS SACT passport (or equivalent) * Be proficient in phlebotomy, cannulation and accessing Central Venous Access Devices * Be a valued addition to the team in our consultant and nurse-led service * Work with patients receiving chemotherapy or new treatments, such as immunotherapy * Fully assess each patient's needs, providing tailored treatment plans and care * Administer systemic anti-cancer therapies (SACT) * Assist consultants during clinics * Provide care for Acute Oncological emergencies * Collaborate with the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT Team) Helping you feel good. We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That's why we've developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what's important to you. Nuffield Health Guildford Hospital Nuffield Health Guildford Hospital provides high-quality healthcare working with leading Consultants to offer a range of services and treatments for preventing, diagnosing and treating a wide array of medical conditions and offer a wide range of complex surgery and services. Our care is matron led and we are proud to have received a "good" rating from the health care regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Our facilities include 49 en-suite patient bedrooms, 4 operating theatres, acute dependency and oncology units. We've been awarded the Macmillan Quality Environment Mark for cancer care. Our site is shared with an NHS Trust hospital, giving us access to their facilities. The working atmosphere is highly professional and stimulating, yet friendly and collaborative like that of a large family unit. The hospital is easily accessible from the A3 or M25 and we are located about 1.5 miles from Guildford town centre Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it's a good idea to apply right away to ensure you're considered for this role. It starts with you.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• As a Senior Oncology Staff Nurse in our hospital, you'll be attentive, driven, detail-oriented and empathetic. You're registered with the appropriate governing body, and you bring the qualifications and experience relevant to your registration, including NMC.

Experience

Essential

• With post-registration experience, you're a team player with a passion for exceptional patient care.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Nuffield Health

Address

Stirling Road

Guildford

GU2 7RF

Employer's website

https://www.nuffieldhealthcareers.com (Opens in a new tab)