Nurse Team Leader - John Bush Supportive Care

Job summary

We are recruiting for a Nurse Team Leader - John Bush Supportive Care at Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

If you enjoy challenges, have a positive outlook, you are caring, enthusiastic and ready to commit to the role of team leader within a fast paced day case setting this role can be yours.

The day unit has 12 treatment chairs and operates from 07:30 - 19:00 Monday to Friday treating adult patients with both solid tumours and haematological cancers.

Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!

Main duties of the job

The post holder is responsible for delivering a high standard of specialist nursing care to all patients within MVCC. Able to coordinate the overall management of the ward.

Facilitating the education and support of qualified and unqualified staff and participating in the development of nursing practice in the clinical area.

Working independently/autonomously without direct supervision, accountable for own professional actions.

Take an active role in deputising and supporting the ward Sister.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.