Junior Sister - Eden Day Unit

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust; Slough; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization is seeking a dedicated Band 6 Junior Sister for the Cancer and Chemotherapy Services at their Eden Day Unit. The role involves delivering exceptional care to chemotherapy patients, overseeing daily patient management, and leading a nursing team in a collaborative environment. Candidates should possess leadership skills and relevant nursing qualifications. This position offers growth opportunities in a supportive oncology team.

Benefits

First class development opportunities

Flexible working patterns

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Experience of working in chemotherapy practice.
• Evidence of up-to-date standards of clinical practice.
• Teaching & assessing experience.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the daily patient list and ensure effective workload allocation.
• Deliver exceptional care to patients undergoing chemotherapy.
• Work collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary team.

Skills

Leadership

Interpersonal skills

Cannulation skills

Education

Current first or second-level NMC Registration

Accredited chemotherapy course

Haematology or Oncology or Palliative Care course

Job description

Job Overview

Junior Sister (Band 6) – Eden Day Unit, Wexham Park Hospital

We’re seeking a dedicated Band 6 Junior Sister to join our Cancer and Chemotherapy Services at the Eden Day Unit. This role is ideal for qualified nurses with either acute trust experience or specialist cancer/chemotherapy expertise who are ready to step into a leadership position.

What You’ll Do

Deliver exceptional care to patients undergoing intensive chemotherapy.

Oversee the daily patient list, ensuring effective workload allocation.

Administer chemotherapy safely and in line with best practice.

Triage patients using the UKONS system to ensure timely and appropriate care.

What We’re Looking For

A dynamic, motivated, and supportive team player.

Passion for delivering safe, high-quality cancer care.

Willingness to develop and expand expertise in oncology and chemotherapy.

Why Join Us?

This is an excellent opportunity to advance your career in a specialist oncology environment, working alongside an experienced, supportive team. SACT training is essential for this role.

If you’re committed to making a difference for patients and ready to take the next step in your nursing career, we’d love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

• Responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of individual patient care with minimal supervision.
• To work as part of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure that treatments are correctly carried out in accordance with given policy.
• Responsible for the assessment of complex care needs of chemotherapy patients and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care.
• Lead and monitor the performance and standards of care within the Nursing Team.
• Work collaboratively with the other members of cancer services team to facilitate the development of the service
  
  

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Current first or second-level NMC Registration
• Accredited chemotherapy course (or working towards)
• Haematology or and Oncology or Palliative Care course
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Nursing degree or working towards a degree
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of working in chemotherapy practice /post course
• Evidence of up-to-date standards of clinical practice
• Experience of audit
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience of staff development
• Significant recent experience at Band 5 in Acute setting or Haematology or Oncology
  
  

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Excellent leadership skills
• Good, effective interpersonal & communication skills (written & verbal)
• Experience of audit
• Teaching & assessing experience
• Appropriate advanced nursing skills- including venepuncture and cannulation skills
  
  

Special Requirements

Essential criteria

• To work in other areas of the Department and Trust when required
• Able to work flexible shifts, weekends and bank holidays as required
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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