Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatrics
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 23 hours per week (23.0 - Wednesday and Thursday essential)
- Job ref
- 151-CG-238
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wexham Park
- Town
- Slough
- Salary
- £37,162 - £44,629 per annum incl HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Deputy Paediatric Oncology Nurse
Band 6
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to join our POSCU Enhanced Level A team as a Paediatric Oncology Nurse.
You will be a kind, compassionate, professional and caring nurse with previous experience of caring for children and their families with these conditions, working in an MDT.
You will be providing support for families with on Oncology diagnosis, working alongside the Paediatric Oncology CNS and the wider MDT
The role will also involve providing teaching and support to staff on Ward 24, Children's Ward and in the Paediatric Outpatients Department.
You will require a basic knowledge of oncological conditions and supportive care, however further support and development will be provided.
Main duties of the job
This is an exciting opportunity to join our Enhanced Level A team as a Paediatric Oncology Nurse.
You will be a kind, compassionate, professional and caring nurse with previous experience of caring for children and their families with these conditions, working in an MDT.
You will be providing support for families with on Oncology diagnosis, working alongside the Paediatric Oncology CNS and the wider MDT
The role will also involve providing teaching and support to staff on Ward 24, Children's Ward and in the Paediatric Outpatients Department.
You will require a basic knowledge of oncological conditions and supportive care, however further support and development will be provided.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviors that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical, and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To assist the Paediatric Oncology CNS to co-ordinate care and services from diagnosis through to transition into adult services for children and their families with an Oncology Diagnosis. The post-holder is to ensure that the children and families receive the highest quality of care, support and experience within agreed protocols and allocated resources together with the clinical lead and the wider Haematology /Oncology Multi Disciplinary Team (MDT) within the Paediatric Oncology Shared Care Unit (POSCU) at Wexham Park.
To support children, young people and their parents in meeting their own health and well being needs through the provision of age/developmental appropriate information, education, advice and support
To be an expert resource who provides sound clinical advice and judgement to children, young people and their families, nurses and junior doctors.
Person specification
qualification
Essential criteria
- NMC Registration Part 8 or 15 – Children’s Nursing
- Chemotherapy administration qualification
Desirable criteria
- Oncology Qualification
experience
Essential criteria
- Previous experience of working in a MDT
- Previous experience of caring for children with cancer
Desirable criteria
- Palliative and end of life care experience
- Knowledge of Childhood Cancer treatments and pathways
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
- Danielle Hiscox
- Job title
- Paediatric Oncology CNS
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03006155719
- Additional information
If you would like to discuss the role in more detail or be shown around our unit - please call Danielle Hiscox on 03006155719 for an informal discussion.
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