Nursing Team Lead - Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom - East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust (Enherts-TR)

Description

NHS AfC:
Band 6

Main area Chemotherapy Grade

NHS AfC:
Band 6
Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.Site Mount Vernon Cancer Centre Town Northwood Salary £35,392 - £42,618 per annum, plus 15% High Cost Area Supplement Salary period Yearly Closing Today at 23:59 Interview date 29/04/2024
Here at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust,
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service

We are recruiting for a Nurse Team Leader - John Bush Supportive Care at Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

The day unit has 12 treatment chairs and operates from 07:30 - 19:00 Monday to Friday treating adult patients with both solid tumours and haematological cancers.

The post holder is responsible for delivering a high standard of specialist nursing care to all patients within MVCC.

Able to coordinate the overall management of the ward.

Facilitating the education and support of qualified and unqualified staff and participating in the development of nursing practice in the clinical area.

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care.

Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients.

We continue to undergo significant transformation; If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees.

Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests.

Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

We welcome applications from those who would relish the opportunity to be part of new and developing cancer service, building on the excellent reputation, research and patient experience the Cancer Centre already delivers.

In possession of Oncology or Haematology Care modules
Counselling Skills
Proven experience at Band 5 in Oncology / Haematology
Change management
Working with chemo care or electronic prescribing systems
Ability to prioritise patient care
Resource management

We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.

We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.

Committed to our Community

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for all job applicants, staff, patients and the wider community.

We want to create a workforce which represents the communities we serve.

In particular we encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, and candidates from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds who are currently under-represented in various parts of our workforce .

We are committed to support flexible working for our staff wherever possible and all our employees are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and achieved our status in 2019.
If you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact us by emailing

We are also proud to support our UK armed forces by supporting Reservists, Cadet Instructors, Veterans and military spouses/partners into employment and offering supportive policies that value their contribution to the community and to our Trust.

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Secondments/Fixed term
Where a vacancy is advertised as a temporary position, the duration will be specified in the advert.

If the vacancy becomes permanent towards the end of the specified duration, the successful applicant may not be required to re-apply and can be slotted into the role on a permanent basis if appropriate.

If you are an internal applicant applying for a temporary working arrangement, please see the attached notes on secondments

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.

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