Registered Nurse - Aylesford / Rigby Unit

South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust; Stratford-upon-Avon; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a caring registered nurse to join the Rigby Unit at Stratford-upon-Avon and support chemotherapy services. The role includes venous access, patient care, and collaboration across sites.

The post requires 12 months acute post-registration experience. Training is provided and there is a rotational pattern including evenings and Saturdays to meet service needs.

Qualifications

• Registered nurse with minimum 12 months acute post-registration experience.
• Competent in venous access and basic chemotherapy administration; training provided as needed.
• Flexible to work across sites and evenings, weekends, and bank holidays on a rotation basis.

Responsibilities

• Assess care needs, plan and evaluate programmes of care.
• Supervise junior staff and support the senior nurses in the chemotherapy suite.
• Deliver evidence-based care and work within Trust policies to maintain safety and quality.

Skills

Intravenous drug administration

Venepuncture

Peripheral cannulation

Chemotherapy administration

Job description

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.

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

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lucy Guest Job title: Rigby Unit Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01926 495321

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