Ward Manager - Oncology

Northumbria Group.; Alnwick; Remote; GBP 52,000 - 68,000; Full time

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust invites applications for an Oncology Day Unit Manager covering Alnwick and Berwick. You will lead clinical and operational delivery for patients receiving Systemic Anti-Cancer Treatment (SACT), drive service development, and ensure safe, compassionate, high-quality care.

You will collaborate with medical staff, nurses, palliative care, and MDTs to shape services and patient experience.

Qualifications

• Nurse must hold 1st Level Registered Nurse qualification and degree in nursing or equivalent.
• Mentorship/mentoring qualifications preferred.
• Advanced clinical skills qualifications required.
• Non-medical prescribing qualification or willingness to undertake within 18 months.
• IRMER qualification or willingness to undertake.
• Advanced communication qualifications or willingness to undertake.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate continuous clinical care within oncology day units.
• Lead and develop oncology nursing teams.
• Influence service improvement and innovation in cancer care.
• Work across organisational boundaries and MDTs.
• Manage resources and support patient-focused care.

Skills

Oncology nursing

Budgetary control

Coaching and mentoring

Quality improvement

NMC registration

Education

Degree in Nursing or relevant study at degree level

1st Level Registered Nurse

Registered mentor

Advanced Clinical Skills Qualification

Non-medical prescribing qualification

IRMER qualification

Advanced Communication qualification

Job description

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you:

• Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
• Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
• A range of flexible working opportunities
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
• Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
• Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We work closely with Kids First Nurseries that are based within our trust grounds at Wansbeck, North Tyneside and Hexham hospitals to care for our Trust family's children, they offer care for children from 6 weeks old up to 4 years. There are a number of funding options run by the government to help working parents, including Early Years Funding and Tax Free Childcare.

Flexible working offers choice in where, when, and how we work, ensuring patients remain at the heart of all we do. It’s open to everyone, and we aim to find solutions that work for both you and the organisation. All arrangements must be reasonable and balanced to maintain safe and effective patient care.

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.

If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.

Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.

Job overview

An exciting development opportunity has arisen within the Oncology Day Units at Alnwick and Berwick for an enthusiastic and motivatedManager to lead the clinical and operational delivery of care for patients receiving Systemic Anti-Cancer Treatment (SACT).

This is a unique opportunity to join our well-established, nurse-led Oncology Day Units, supporting patients across a wide range of tumour groups. As a key member of the team, you will provide visible leadership, drive service development, and ensure the delivery of safe, effective, and compassionate care.

Working closely with multidisciplinary colleagues, including medical staff, specialist nurses, palliative care teams, and allied health professionals, you will play a pivotal role in shaping services and enhancing the patient experience.

If you are a dynamic leader with a passion for delivering high-quality cancer care and are looking for the next step in your career, we would love to hear from you.

Join us and help shape the future of cancer services across Northumberland.

We would consider 30hours for the post

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

This post offers the opportunity to:

• Lead and develop highly skilled oncology nursing teams.
• Influence service improvement and innovation within cancer care.
• Work collaboratively across organisational and professional boundaries.
• Develop your leadership and management skills within a supportive environment.
• Make a real difference to the lives of patients and their families.

To provide clinical expertise through the role of Oncology Day Unit manager to manage and develop the service . The post holder will work in close liaison with the other Unit Manager, and other Deputy Sister/ Deputy Charge Nurses, Matrons, Practice Development Team (PDT) and the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) to provide the highest quality of assessment and evaluated care required to support each patient in their care pathway and improve the patient experience.

Candidates should be working within the SACT service and have significant post registration experience including previous experience of giving SACT and managing toxicities/acute oncology symptoms.

Enhanced knowledge and decision‑making skills are essential and completion of, the clinical skills course or equivalent would be an advantage.

Working for our organisation

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state‑of‑the‑art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To be responsible for co‑ordinating the provision of continuous clinical care within allocated resources, providing a quality service and high clinical standards for all patients in your area.
• To be responsible for the management of all human resource issues relating to the staff employed in your area.
• To act as Budget Holder, accountable for the management of the unit budget, and for the management of the charitable fund.
• To exercise accountability as set out in the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
• To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership.
• To liaise and co‑ordinate the ODU team through the use of effective communication and evidence‑based practice.
• To provide the highest standard of holistic care for Oncology /Haematology patients undergoing treatment and supportive care, through the utilisation of advanced clinical skills.
• To contribute to the setting, standardisation and maintaining of standards of care across all sites delivering Chemotherapy and SACT Trust wide.
• To participate in the on‑call rota for the Trust wide Chemotherapy Emergency Helpline.

Person specification

Qualifications

• 1st Level Registered Nurse
• Degree in Nursing or relevant study at degree level.
• Registered mentor
• Advanced Clinical Skills Qualification
• Non‑medical prescribing qualification or willingness to undertake within 18 months
• IRMER qualification or willingness to undertake
• Advanced Communication qualification or willingness to undertake

Experience and Knowledge

• Extensive skills and knowledge in Oncology
• Previous oncology experience at Band 6
• LEO or equivalent experience
• Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
• Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods
• Experience of budgetary control
• Maintain own NMC registration

Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and those who have been looked after by the care system as a child or young person (for example, in foster care, children's homes, kinship or local authority care) who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under‑represented in our workforce as well as other under‑represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.

Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre‑employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust proudly hold a sponsor licence. In order to provide sponsorship you and the role you are applying for must meet UKVI eligibility requirements. Please check your eligibility prior to submitting an application. Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Kate Mitchel Job title ACP / Lead SACT Nurse Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 07967816088 Additional information

Amanda Walshe

Lead Cancer Nurse

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