Senior Chemotherapy Sister/Charge Nurse

NHS; Redhill; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Chemotherapy Nurse to lead a team at our Chemotherapy Suite in Redhill. This role entails driving forward service improvement and ensuring excellence in patient care within a supportive team environment, while contributing to the Trust's values and vision.

Qualifications

• Evidence of essential experience for the role.
• Meet the essential education/qualifications required for the role.
• Evidence of Trust values and behaviours.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of chemotherapy nurses in a nurse-led unit.
• Ensure safe, high-quality care for patients.
• Provide clinical supervision and foster professional growth.

Skills

Team Leadership

Patient Care

Clinical Supervision

Written English

Education

Mandatory professional clinical registration

Job description

An exciting opportunity for career development and to help further improve local chemotherapy services at our Chemotherapy Suite based in Redhill has arisen for an experienced Chemotherapy Nurse who is keen to meet the challenge of leading a team of chemotherapy nurses on a nurse led chemotherapy day unit, developing and improving timeliness and access to our chemotherapy services. We are looking for a dynamic, enthusiastic and experienced Chemotherapy Nurse who can drive forward the Trust's vision and values within anexisting team and ensure safe high quality care for patients within our care.

Main duties of the job

Working at Chemo Suite offers the exciting opportunity to be part of a vibrant and growing team, where staff can contribute to team development, clinical care coordination, and the delivery of high-quality patient services. Senior nurses play a key role in providing clinical supervision, fostering professional growth, and ensuring excellence in patient care. The collaborative, supportive atmosphere within the team makes Comet a truly inspiring place to work.

For further information, please attached JD and person specification for list of duties and responsibilities

About us

We provide emergency and non-emergency services to the residents of East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon, including the major towns of Crawley, Horsham, Reigate and Redhill; a community of over 535,000 people. We provide acute and complex services and a range of outpatient, diagnostic services whilst Crawley Hospital and Horsham in West Sussex and Caterham Dene Hospital and Oxted Health Centre in Surrey provide less complex planned services. In 2019 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated our services as 'Outstanding' and we are one of the best performing Trusts in England:

Winners of Health Service Journal Acute Trust of the year award 2021.

National Patient Safety Awards winner and strive to be a beacon for safety in all that we do.

We are rated the sixth highest trust in the South East and in the top 25% nationally for staff recommending the Trust as a place to work or receive treatment.

Job responsibilities

Once you understand the requirements outlined in the advert, please ensure your application clearly reflects where you match them including any examples you would like to highlight.

Person Specification

Criteria

• Evidence of a good standard of written English appropriate to the role
• A complete and accurate application
• Suitability for role evidenced in supporting statement
• Evidence of essential experience for role
• Meet the essential education/qualifications required for the role
• Hold the necessary mandatory professional/clinical registration
• Evidence of the Trust values and behaviours
• Evidence of any other essential criteria outlined in the personal specification

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.