Staff Nurse - Reading, United Kingdom - Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

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Reading, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Band 5 Staff Nurse (Chemotherapy Outpatient Service)

Weekdays only (no weekends, nights or bank holidays)

We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 5 Staff Nurse to join our chemotherapy outpatient service.

We have three units:

King Edward ward at the Royal Berkshire Hospital and Chemotherapy 1 at the Bracknell Healthspace and the Rosemary Centre, West Berkshire Community Hospital.

We are a small team of nurses providing Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapies (SACT) and supportive therapies for patients at all stages of their cancer journey in a day unit setting.

Career progression and further education is highly encouraged and many of our nurses have gone onto become Clinical Nurse Specialists, Research Nurses, Advanced Nurse Practitioners and Ward Sisters.

The units are open Monday to Friday from 8.30am to 5pm.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Staff Nurse with an interest in Oncology to join our compassionate and highly knowledgeable team.

Although previous experience is desired, it is not essential.

You will be qualified for a minimum of one year and ideally competent in cannulation and IV therapy, however, training would be provided.

Experience administering chemotherapy is an advantage but full training (including an accredited university module) will be given.

We would be more than happy for you to come and meet the team or spend some time shadowing us to get more of an idea of what we do.

Reading sits on the river Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford and Southampton.

With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work and play and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.

The CQC recently rated the care provided by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as Good.

Our values:

C ompassionate, A spirational, R esourceful, E xcellent, reflect the type of Trust we aspire to be and you can join our dedicated and talented staff to make this happen.

The post-holder is responsible for undertaking and recording comprehensive nursing assessment and planning, delivering and evaluating high standards of evidenced-based nursing care to a diverse group of patients.

Deliver care without direct supervision and be accountable for the care delivered and any omissions of care.

Teach and supervise more junior staff, students and the non-registered nursing workforce.

Be accountable for care or any omissions of care that you delegate to others.

Act as role model, delivering care with empathy and compassion as part of a multidisciplinary team.

Please refer to the attached Job Description & Person Specification for further details.