Job summary
Band 5 Chemotherapy Nurse - 37.5 hrs, permanent. Monday-Friday working - 4 days
The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust provides highly-specialist cancer care for a population of 2.4 million people across Cheshire & Merseyside, North Wales, the Isle of Man and parts of Lancashire.
In June 2020, we opened Clatterbridge Cancer Centre - Liverpool, our spectacular new cancer hospital in the heart of Liverpool's Knowledge Quarter, providing state-of-the-art facilities as part of a £162m investment. Alongside our flagship hospital in Liverpool, we also have two other main cancer centres:
- Clatterbridge Cancer Centre - Wirral, providing outpatient cancer treatment and supportive care on the Clatterbridge Health Campus in Bebington, Wirral
- Clatterbridge Cancer Centre - Aintree, our radiotherapy treatment centre on the Aintree University Hospital site
Together, working across three sites and operating specialist chemotherapy clinics in four of Merseyside's district hospitals, we deliver a comprehensive range of inpatient care, advanced radiotherapy, chemotherapy and other systemic anti-cancer therapies including gene therapies and immunotherapies.
We also deliver a pioneering Treatment at Home and Work service, are the only facility in the UK providing low-energy proton beam therapy to treat rare eye cancers, and host the region's Teenage and Young Adult Unit.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an enthusiasticBand 5 nurse to work at our CCC - Delamere Ward, Clatterbridge Cancer Centre Wirral.
As we deliver treatments in sector hubs and clinicsacross the Wirral and Liverpool, there will an element of cross cover required during training and once training has been completed. This will include travelling to all of our peripheral sites:
- CCC Liverpool
- CCC Aintree
- CCC Ormskirk
- CCC Wirral
- CCC Halton
- CCC Private Unit Wirral
- CCC Private Unit Liverpool
- Clatterbridge in the Community
We're here to deliver the best cancer care to the people we serve and we're looking for applications from those who share that commitment and our values: Putting people first; Achieving excellence; Passionate about what we do; Always improving our care; and Looking to the future.If you are interested in joining our Team and support the Trust with our vision to provide the best cancer care, please apply online.
About us
This job is unlikely to attract a Tier 2 Certificate of Sponsorship (formerly a work permit). Applications from candidates who require Tier 2 immigration status to work in the UK may not be considered if there are a sufficient number of other suitable candidates. To apply for a Tier 2 Certificate of Sponsorship, employers need to demonstrate that they are unable to recruit a resident worker before recruiting an individual overseas.
The Trust takes an active responsibility for ensuring systems, policies and processes are in place to safeguard Children, young people and Adults, supporting the national and local agenda around safeguarding, including local arrangements for the protection of children young person and adults at risk.
This job is unlikely to attract a Tier 2 Certificate of Sponsorship (formerly a work permit). Applications from candidates who require Tier 2 immigration status to work in the UK may not be considered if there are a sufficient number of other suitable candidates. To apply for a Tier 2 Certificate of Sponsorship, employers need to demonstrate that they are unable to recruit a resident worker before recruiting an individual overseas.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Responsibility to ensure all nursing care is carried out as determined by the individual patients treatment plan.
- Responsibility to ensure SACT treatment assessments are regularly updated reflecting evidence based practice.
- Responsibility to provide accurate information to patients and relatives regarding treatment and side effects.
- Responsibility to ensure that all patient information is collected and documented accurately and in real time, during a span of duty.
- Responsibility to work as an autonomous practitioner as well as part of a team.
- Responsibility to provide accurate reports both verbally and electronically.
- Responsibility to ensure that all nursing policies, procedures and protocols within the clinical environment are adhered to.
- Responsibility for the safe handling and administration of all SACT, supportive treatments and blood products according to policy.
- Responsibility to work across the Directorates sector hub model to ensure safe staffing levels.
- Responsibility to ensure that all radiation guidelines are adhered to.
- Responsibility to ensure compliance with all Infection, Prevention and Control policies are strictly adhered to.
- Responsibility in collaboration with the senior nursing team to make treatment and or deferral decisions based on the patients SACT assessment, presentation and blood results.
- Responsibility to escalate any patient safety issues to include safeguarding concerns to the relevant teams.
- Responsibility to inform the appropriate medical teams regarding a change in a patients treatment pathway.
- Responsibility in collaboration with the senior nursing team to make treatment and or deferral decisions based on the patients SACT assessment, presentation and blood results.
- Responsibility to recognise and work within the limits of your competencies.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Responsibility to ensure all nursing care is carried out as determined by the individual patients treatment plan.
- Responsibility to ensure SACT treatment assessments are regularly updated reflecting evidence based practice.
- Responsibility to provide accurate information to patients and relatives regarding treatment and side effects.
- Responsibility to ensure that all patient information is collected and documented accurately and in real time, during a span of duty.
- Responsibility to work as an autonomous practitioner as well as part of a team.
- Responsibility to provide accurate reports both verbally and electronically.
- Responsibility to ensure that all nursing policies, procedures and protocols within the clinical environment are adhered to.
- Responsibility for the safe handling and administration of all SACT, supportive treatments and blood products according to policy.
- Responsibility to work across the Directorates sector hub model to ensure safe staffing levels.
- Responsibility to ensure that all radiation guidelines are adhered to.
- Responsibility to ensure compliance with all Infection, Prevention and Control policies are strictly adhered to.
- Responsibility in collaboration with the senior nursing team to make treatment and or deferral decisions based on the patients SACT assessment, presentation and blood results.
- Responsibility to escalate any patient safety issues to include safeguarding concerns to the relevant teams.
- Responsibility to inform the appropriate medical teams regarding a change in a patients treatment pathway.
- Responsibility in collaboration with the senior nursing team to make treatment and or deferral decisions based on the patients SACT assessment, presentation and blood results.
- Responsibility to recognise and work within the limits of your competencies.
Person Specification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- General Nursing Experience
Desirable
- Previous Oncology Experience
Qualifications
Essential
- Curent 1st Level Registration with the bNMC
- ENB 237 or Equivalent
- Degree Level
Desirable
- N59 or Equivalent
- Cannulation skills
Person Specification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- General Nursing Experience
Desirable
- Previous Oncology Experience
Qualifications
Essential
- Curent 1st Level Registration with the bNMC
- ENB 237 or Equivalent
- Degree Level
Desirable
- N59 or Equivalent
- Cannulation skills
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).
Additional information
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).
