Staff Nurse (Daycase Service Unit/ Out Patient Department)

Job summary

It takes a special nurse to work in a specialist cancer centre. If you're looking for a fantastic place to deliver personalised care and develop your nursing career, we're looking for passionate and dedicated Staff Nurses to join our Day Case Unit and Outpatient unit, where you'll provide specialist, compassionate nursing care to patients undergoing a range of check-ups, tests and systemic anti-cancer treatments (SACT), including chemotherapies, immunotherapies and hormone therapies.

Working here, you'll gain experience looking after all aspects of cancer care from delivering treatments, symptom management.

During your induction programme, you'll be supported to develop a wide variety of skills and have the chance to rotate throughout all clinical areas within the hospital, including our busy outpatient's department, triage unit, research treatment suite.

Our nurses tell us that Weston Park Cancer Centre is an extremely rewarding place to work knowing that they are providing the best possible care to patients and their relatives.

Whatever your existing skills and experience, just bring your passion and drive for delivering the best possible patient care, and we'll help you develop into an amazing, highly-skilled cancer nurse with plenty of opportunities to further your career.

Main duties of the job

You'll play a vital role assisting in the day-to-day running of our Day Case Unit and Outpatient department, by providing clinical nursing expertise, care and support to our patients at Weston Park. You'll also deliver chemotherapy and other anti-cancer treatments to our patients, including occasionally across our other hospital sites and services in order to support patient care.

Please see the job description for a full list of duties.

What we offer you:

• A comprehensive orientation programme giving you experience of the whole centre
• Established Preceptorship, for newly qualified Nurses along with a named preceptor and a generous supernumerary period
• Dedicated support from a Clinical Educator - to support, educate and facilitate learning towards becoming an acute oncology nurse
• Opportunities to develop your clinical skills, including; intravenous medications, venepuncture, cannulation, management of central lines and administration of anti-cancer therapy
• The opportunity to develop your core nursing abilities
• Opportunities to take on Link Worker Roles
• Rotation within the specialist area to Ward 2 and WAU (Emergency Admissions Unit)
• Caring for patients of all ages and backgrounds
• A supportive and nurturing work environment

About us

You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.

Part of Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Weston Park Cancer Centre is one of the most forward-looking dedicated cancer hospitals in the country with a world-leading reputation as a centre of excellence for cancer care. It provides specialist curative and palliative treatments, including anti-cancer therapy and radiotherapy, for patients across South Yorkshire and beyond. Clinical care and research are integrated into our patient care, and the hospital is credited as a pioneer of modern advances in the field of cancer.

We have two in-patient wards and a dedicated teenage cancer unit, alongside a busy day-case treatment facility, research treatment suite and a newly openedoutpatient department. We also have a dynamic assessment unit with a 24-hour telephone triage service for patients on cancer treatment across our region. This will provide you with the opportunity to develop skills and knowledge in all aspects of cancer care, across a range of specialised clinical areas.