Staff Nurse (Band 5) Haematology and Oncology Day Unit

Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.

Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.

Haematology and Oncology Day Unit

Band 5 Registered Nurse

Full-time, Permanent Post (37.5 hours per week)

Are you ambitious, motivated, and passionate about nursing? Do you want to make a real difference to every one of your patients? If so, we would love to hear from you!

The Haematology and Oncology Day Unit are seeking an NMC Registered Nurse to join our fantastic team. We are proud to provide exceptional nursing care to haematology and oncology patients and would love you to join our hardworking and dedicated team. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Promote and set high standards of nursing care and maintain the delivery of quality care within the trust policies, protocols, and guidelines
• Provide and deliver a high standard of evidence-based nursing care through the assessment, planning, and evaluating of individual patients needs based on evidence. Initiate and co-ordinate care in the clinical area for a specified group of patients
• Recognise and respond to a change in patient status undertaking first line interventions within scope of practice and refer on to the appropriate clinician as required
• Actively promote safe and effective working practices to prevent harm to the patients within your care and take part in safety audits to maintain high quality standards
• Communicating and working with the multidisciplinary team to improve quality of care, and informed clinical decisions. Promote innovation and share any new ideas to improve patient care
• Communicate complex/sensitive information with empathy and respect ensuring understanding

Please see the attached job description for a full list of roles and responsibilities. 

Qualifications and Experience

Essential

• Current RN +/- RN, registration with NMC and any other relevant post registration qualifications
• Degree in relevant field 
• Evidence of recent CPD
• Managing resources and contributing to departmental budget
• Evidence of developing policy, guidelines and managing resources
• An awareness of research and evidence-based practice relevant to clinical area
• Oncology experience

Desirable

• Fully SACT competent
• Computer literate, knowledge of patient administration system
• Driving licence
• Day unit experience
• Working at peripheral sites

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Clinically competent at Band 5.
• Intravenous Therapy Skills
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Teaching and mentoring skills
• Team building skills
• Ability to prioritise workload, instruct and direct others
• Organisational skills and able to work as part of a team
• Able to support development of others
• Articulate and knowledgeable of current professional nursing issues
• Health promotion
• Advocacy skills
• Strong customer service skills

Desirable

• Ability to adapt to change within working situation
• Mentorship Course

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.