Bank Specialist Nurse - Cancer Services

Spire Healthcare Ltd; Slough; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Slough is seeking an experienced Specialist Nurse to join their Oncology Department on a bank/adhoc basis. The role requires expertise in nursing and clinical reasoning in cancer care. Benefits include competitive pay, training opportunities, and access to wellness programs.

Benefits

Access to Spire Healthcare pension

Blue Light Card discounts

Smartspending discounts

Wellbeing Centre access

Free uniform

Free DBS

Opportunities for further training

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with active NMC PIN.
• Experience of nursing in cancer services is essential.
• Experience in clinical reasoning for complex cases.

Responsibilities

• Provide exemplary planned care for patients.
• Assess patients' health and wellbeing.
• Assist in the management and organisation of care.

Skills

Registered Nurse with active NMC PIN

Experience of nursing in cancer services

Clinical reasoning skills

Ability to work with minimum supervision

Experience in a caring role

Job description

Specialist Nurse-Cancer Services | Slough | Bank/Ad-Hoc Shifts

Spire Thames Valley has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Specialist Nurse to join the bank team in their Oncology Department

Main duties of the job

Duties and responsibilities:

To provide exemplary planned care for patients and assist in the management and organisation of care provision in a variety of hospital settings

• Assess patients health and wellbeing across a complex and changing caseload.
• Assist in the delivery of care to meet individuals health and wellbeing needs
• Provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information.
• Develop own knowledge and skills and that of others.
• Promotes best practice in health and safety and security.
• Assist in maintaining and developing services.
• Contribute to quality improvement.
• Promote peoples equality, diversity and rights.
• Acknowledge the risk of Healthcare Associated Infections (HCAI) and understand own responsibility as agreed with line manager in the prevention and control of HCAI.

About us

At Spire Healthcare, caring is our passion. We have been putting patients at the heart of everything we do for over 25 years. We're committed to looking after people, both patients and staff. We deliver high standards of care to our insured, self-pay and NHS patients across 39 hospitals and 33 clinics, medical centres and consulting rooms. Our successful business is led by an experienced and stable senior management team, we provide the highest quality of care through the latest medical technology, new facilities, and a focus on inspiring leadership and employee development. We have achieved our market leading position because of our Purpose, which is to 'make a positive difference to people's lives through outstanding personalised care'. Everyone at Spire is aligned to this purpose, which underpins a culture of respect, inclusion, passion and collaboration across our business, enabling us to achieve more than 98% of our hospitals being rated 'Good' or 'Outstanding' by the Regulators; these are sector leading standards.

Job responsibilities

Who we're looking for:

• Registered Nurse with active NMC PIN
• Experience of nursing in cancer services is essential
• Working in teams
• Work with minimum supervision
• Experience of applying clinical reasoning skills to a range of complex and varied patient case mixes
• Experience in a caring role
• Bank colleagues are paid weekly
• We offer competitive rates to our bank colleagues who work on a flexible basis, often to cover busy periods, sickness, or annual leave
• Access to Spire Healthcare pension
• Access to Blue Light Card discounts
• Smartspending discounts (in addition to Blue Light discounts) via Spire for You
• Wellbeing Centre access via Spire for You
• Free uniform
• Free DBS
• Full induction, including mandatory training updates
• Opportunities for further training and progression into permanent posts
• Knowledge, support and guidance through your recruitment journey from Spires specialist Resourcing Team

Our Values:

We are extremely proud of our heritage in private healthcare and of our values as an organisation:

• Driving clinical excellence
• Doing the right thing
• Caring is our passion.
• Keeping it simple
• Succeeding and celebrating together

We commit to our employees well-being through work life balance, on-going development, support and reward.

Spire Healthcare is a leading independent hospital group in the United Kingdom and the largest in terms of revenue. From 39 hospitals and 8 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland, Spire Healthcare provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care.

Spire Healthcare are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture for all. Our people are our difference, its their dedication, warmth and pursuit of excellence that sets Spire Healthcare apart.

Closing date: In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.

For us, it's more than just treating patients; it's about looking after people.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Please see above

Experience

• Please see above

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.

Wexham St, Wexham Street, Slough SL3 6NH

Wexham St, Wexham Street, Slough SL3 6NH