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Job summary

Main area
Oncology - Chemotherapy
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week
Job ref
319-6433543JA-A
Employer
Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
North Tyneside
Town
North Shields
Salary
£35,392 - £42,618 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
31/07/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust logo

Oncology Day Unit Sister/ Charge Nurse

Band 6

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022).  Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you:

  • Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
  • Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
  • A range of flexible working opportunities
  • Generous annual leave and pension scheme
  • Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
  • Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
  • On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
  • Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy. 

If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.

 

 

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full time Oncology Day Unit Sister/Charge Nurse  based at North Tyneside General Hospital.

The candidate will also join the out of hours emergency telephone helpline to manage the service during evenings, weekends and bank holidays - this will involve independent decision making to help manage acute care of patients who are unwell offering advice and guidance. 

Northumbria has 5 Oncology Day Units (Hexham, North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Alnwick/Berwick) .

The post holder will provide a specialist nursing service to cancer patients contributing to service delivery, the Day Unit Sister/Charge Nurse will work as part of a multi-professional team, ensuring patients with cancer receive the highest standard of care and support.

Main duties of the job

To provide clinical expertise to the Team and develop practice. To work in close liaison with the Unit Manager, Lead Cancer Nurse, Practice Development Team  and the MDT to provide the highest quality of care required to support each patient in their pathway and improve the patient experience.

To act as a clinical nurse leader, taking responsibility for the professional development of yourself and a group of nurses. Candidates should be able to demonstrate their ability to work autonomously and have excellent communication skills.

Working for our organisation

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Support the Oncology Day Unit Manager to provide a high quality evidence based nurse led chemotherapy service to patients and carer’s. This will include patients attending for day case chemotherapy and patients who may contact the service for advice about their care.

Provide specialist education and training to other members of the Team.

To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • RN 1st level current NMC Registration
  • Degree in Nursing/relevant degree level study or working towards
  • Registered Mentor, teaching and assessing qualification or equivalent.
  • Advanced Communication skills and Level 2 Psychology training (willing to undertake)
  • The N59 Chemotherapy course or equivalent (Willingness to undertake)
  • Advanced Clinical skills course or willing to undertake NACAN or equivalent (Willingness to undertake).
Desirable criteria
  • D32/33/34 NVQ Assessor and internal verifier.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardDisability confident employerCare quality commission - OutstandingStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Better Health at Work Award - Maintaining ExcellenceHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Deborah Fearn
Job title
Oncology Day Unit Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0191 293 2751
Additional information

Sophie Atkinson  - ODU Manager - [email protected]

Natalie Jones - Lead Oncology Day Unit Secretary - [email protected]

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