Job summary
Band 5 Staff Nurse - 22.5hrs, permanent. Monday-Saturday working
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
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and highly motivated individual, with post registration experience to work as a Staff Nurse within the Day Care Department which caters for oncology and haemato-oncology patients receiving supportive cancer treatment.
We are looking to recruit individuals to undertake this role and be committed, motivated and compassionate, with good organisational and communication skills, to complement the existing team.
You will be encouraged to expand and develop your knowledge, skills and competencies within a supportive and friendly environment. Whilst haemato-oncology/general oncology experience is not necessary, there must be a willingness to learn about the specialty.
Integrity, vision and a desire to take the service forward and expand the nursing role are also a requirement. The job is challenging and interesting and the many different protocols means treatment plans are varied and there is a lot to learn, making this an exciting place to work. Hours are fixed at 08:00 to 18:00 over 6 days, including bank holidays, with some additional shifts until 8pm.
If you want to be part of a fantastic team and help support the Trust with our vision for providing the best cancer care in the country, then we want to hear from you.
About us
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.
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
Communication skills
Essential
- communicate effectiveley to staff, patients and relatives
Knowledge/training/experience
Essential
- Registered general nurse aquired through degree or diploma
Analytical skills
Essential
- uses judgement skills to assess and priortise patient care
Planning/orgaisational skills
Essential
- plans own time and delegates work to junior staff
Patient/Client Care
Essential
- Assessment and planning of nursing care for own patient group
Research and Develoment
Desirable
- Awareness of clinical trials and collection of data and samples for clinical trials nurse
Person Specification
Communication skills
Essential
- communicate effectiveley to staff, patients and relatives
Knowledge/training/experience
Essential
- Registered general nurse aquired through degree or diploma
Analytical skills
Essential
- uses judgement skills to assess and priortise patient care
Planning/orgaisational skills
Essential
- plans own time and delegates work to junior staff
Patient/Client Care
Essential
- Assessment and planning of nursing care for own patient group
Research and Develoment
Desirable
- Awareness of clinical trials and collection of data and samples for clinical trials nurse
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).
