Bank Oncology Nurse
Posted 4 days 19 hours ago by Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Permanent
Not Specified
Other
Tyne And Wear, Tynemouth, United Kingdom, NE304
Job Description
Main area Nursing Grade NHS AfC: Band 5 Contract Bank Hours Flexible working - 0 hours per week (Adhoc as and when) Job ref 202JA
Site Trustwide Town Trustwide Salary £31,049 - £37,796 pro rata per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 22/06/:59
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 :
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 We require reliable, enthusiastic and motivated Oncology Nurses to join our bank within Northumberland and North Tyneside.
In return you will can offer you:
Flexible hours; choose when and where you want to work
Competitive pay rates; including enhanced pay for unsociable hours
Paid annual leave
NHS pension scheme
A fast-track recruitment process if you move to a substantive role
Opportunities to work in different wards and departments, including community, dental and specialist services
Access to Services, such as those provided by our Staff Wellbeing Team
Ability to book your shifts from home using our online portal
Option to block-book shifts in a set period
SMS notifications of shift availability
Access to staff newsletters and bulletins
Eligible for various local and national discounts which are available to NHS staff
Free uniform, where applicable
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 There are bank assignments all around the Trust, including our community settings in Haltwhistle, Berwick, Alnwick, Morpeth, Rothbury, Blyth as well as our main hospitals in Hexham, Ashington, North Tyneside and Cramlington. We have a range of shifts, 7 days per week including day shifts, early shifts , late shifts , twilight, nights and weekends. With bank you can pick and choose which shifts suit you.
Main duties of the role include:
To assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care working as a member of the nurse led oncology day unit team under the direction of the Unit Manager.
To be responsible for the organising and co-ordination of nursing services in the unit, in the absence of senior staff on a regular basis.
To exercise accountability as set out in the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
To be responsible for all nursing care standards and to maintain high clinical standards.
With appropriate training and support safely administer a wide range of Anti-Systemic Cancer Treatment (SACT) and supportive care to patients.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
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 assess, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of care in partnership with the patient and the multidisciplinary team e.g. SACT.
• To promote health with all patients and carers.
• To deliver governance standards in line with the 'Essence of Care Standards' and the Trust's Governance framework.
• To respond to enquiries from relatives and carers, deal with concerns and actively problem solve to improve the patients experience.
• In the absence of senior staff to take charge of the unit managing skill mix, rota's, workload and case mix to the dependencies within the unit environment.
• Ensuring appropriate use of physical+ budgetary resources.
• Act as named nurse / team leader managing patient care from admission to discharge. Actively instigating discharge involves liaising with MDT's and outside agencies where required.
• Administering medications, blood products, fluids, cannulation and venepuncture.
• Undertake the safe administration of SACT via a variety of routes.
• Care of Vascular access devices.
• Manipulation of fine tools / materials where accuracy is important e.g. calculation, reconstitution of drugs, venepuncture and cannulation and delivery of SACT.
• Assess patient's condition e.g. Holistic symptom assessment and use of Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events.
• Through education/training acquire the ability to interpret the necessary blood results prior to the administration of SACT and manage toxicities with support.
• Judgements on problems requiring investigation, analysis, e.g. blood results and assessment of patient /toxicity/adverse effects from treatment.
• To maintain one's own high professional standards and discuss opportunities to develop clinical practice with the line manager.
• Alert the line manager or on call management team of any untoward situation.
• To take charge of the management of a group of patients on a regular basis, acting as named nurse / primary nurse.
• Clearly defined occupational policies, work is managed, rather than supervised.
Person specification Qualifications
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 . click apply for full job details
Site Trustwide Town Trustwide Salary £31,049 - £37,796 pro rata per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 22/06/:59
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
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
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 We require reliable, enthusiastic and motivated Oncology Nurses to join our bank within Northumberland and North Tyneside.
In return you will can offer you:
Flexible hours; choose when and where you want to work
Competitive pay rates; including enhanced pay for unsociable hours
Paid annual leave
NHS pension scheme
A fast-track recruitment process if you move to a substantive role
Opportunities to work in different wards and departments, including community, dental and specialist services
Access to Services, such as those provided by our Staff Wellbeing Team
Ability to book your shifts from home using our online portal
Option to block-book shifts in a set period
SMS notifications of shift availability
Access to staff newsletters and bulletins
Eligible for various local and national discounts which are available to NHS staff
Free uniform, where applicable
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 There are bank assignments all around the Trust, including our community settings in Haltwhistle, Berwick, Alnwick, Morpeth, Rothbury, Blyth as well as our main hospitals in Hexham, Ashington, North Tyneside and Cramlington. We have a range of shifts, 7 days per week including day shifts, early shifts , late shifts , twilight, nights and weekends. With bank you can pick and choose which shifts suit you.
Main duties of the role include:
To assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care working as a member of the nurse led oncology day unit team under the direction of the Unit Manager.
To be responsible for the organising and co-ordination of nursing services in the unit, in the absence of senior staff on a regular basis.
To exercise accountability as set out in the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
To be responsible for all nursing care standards and to maintain high clinical standards.
With appropriate training and support safely administer a wide range of Anti-Systemic Cancer Treatment (SACT) and supportive care to patients.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
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 assess, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of care in partnership with the patient and the multidisciplinary team e.g. SACT.
• To promote health with all patients and carers.
• To deliver governance standards in line with the 'Essence of Care Standards' and the Trust's Governance framework.
• To respond to enquiries from relatives and carers, deal with concerns and actively problem solve to improve the patients experience.
• In the absence of senior staff to take charge of the unit managing skill mix, rota's, workload and case mix to the dependencies within the unit environment.
• Ensuring appropriate use of physical+ budgetary resources.
• Act as named nurse / team leader managing patient care from admission to discharge. Actively instigating discharge involves liaising with MDT's and outside agencies where required.
• Administering medications, blood products, fluids, cannulation and venepuncture.
• Undertake the safe administration of SACT via a variety of routes.
• Care of Vascular access devices.
• Manipulation of fine tools / materials where accuracy is important e.g. calculation, reconstitution of drugs, venepuncture and cannulation and delivery of SACT.
• Assess patient's condition e.g. Holistic symptom assessment and use of Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events.
• Through education/training acquire the ability to interpret the necessary blood results prior to the administration of SACT and manage toxicities with support.
• Judgements on problems requiring investigation, analysis, e.g. blood results and assessment of patient /toxicity/adverse effects from treatment.
• To maintain one's own high professional standards and discuss opportunities to develop clinical practice with the line manager.
• Alert the line manager or on call management team of any untoward situation.
• To take charge of the management of a group of patients on a regular basis, acting as named nurse / primary nurse.
• Clearly defined occupational policies, work is managed, rather than supervised.
Person specification Qualifications
- 1st level live NMC registered Nurse
- Diploma/Degree in Nursing.
- Accredited SACT course and complete SACT competence passport
- Knowledge and scope of practice to encompass phlebotomy, cannulation, Vascular access devices care, and the administration of Systematic Anti-Cancer Treatments (SACT).
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 . click apply for full job details