Registered Nurse - Aylesford / Rigby Unit

South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust; Aylesford; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a caring, enthusiastic registered nurse to join the chemotherapy suite teams at The Rigby Unit and The Aylesford Unit. You will assess care needs, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of care, and supervise junior staff.

Experience in intravenous drug administration is required; haematology or oncology experience is desirable. Full induction will be provided, with flexibility to work across sites as needed.

Qualifications

• Minimum 12 months acute post-registration nursing experience.
• Competent at intravenous drug administration.
• Haematology or oncology experience desirable.
• Full training will be provided.
• Good communication and teamwork are essential.

Responsibilities

• Assess care needs, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of care.
• Supervise junior staff.
• Support senior nurses in managing the chemotherapy suite.
• Deputise for Clinical Sister when absent.
• Care for day-case patients, many with cancer.

Skills

Intravenous drug administration

Communication skills

Teamwork

Education

Registered Nurse registration

Job description

To perform a pivotal role within the nursing team. To be responsible for theassessment of care needs, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of care.To supervise junior staff. To support the senior nurses in the management of thechemotherapy suite, adhering to the policies of the Trust. To deputise for theClinical Sister in her/his absence.

Are you a caring, enthusiastic and innovative registered nurse, competent at intravenous drug administration and with a minimum of 12 months acute post registration experience? If so we would like to hear from you to join our highly motivated and innovative teams.

You will work predominantly at The Rigby Unit (on the Stratford site) but also be flexible to work across The Aylesford Unit (on the Warwick site) when Service need dictates.

The posts offer an exciting opportunity to further develop your clinical and managerial skills within a supportive environment. You will care for a variety of day case patients; the majority of these patients will have cancer. Good communication skills and the ability to work as a team player are essential. Haematology or oncology experience plus clinical skills in venepuncture, peripheral cannulation and chemotherapy administration are desirable but not essential as full training will be given.

You will primarily work from Monday to Friday. This may also include evenings, Saturdays and Bank Holidays on a rotational basis. Flexible team working is essential to meet our service needs.

If you are motivated to deliver excellent evidence based health care and want to work within a progressive, developing team, we would like to hear from you.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.

Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.