Staff Nurse - Greater Manchester, United Kingdom - Appcastenterprise

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Staff Nurse-Oncology
Hours: 37.5hrs pw (Shifts: long days/nights/weekends)


Salary:
Competitive & dependent on skills & experience + Benefits (pension, health cover, flexible benefits and excellent career development)

Are you looking for a new challenge?

  • Staff training pathways include: Introduction to Oncology, Principles of Systemic Anti-Cancer therapy, Introduction to Haematooncology, stem cell transplant course


As a Staff Nurse, you will be responsible for working in a supporting experienced nursing team to assess, plan, deliver and evaluate high standards of specialist care to ensure that patients are cared for in a safe, caring and comfortable environment.

Thiswill include meeting their medical, physical and emotional needs by effectively communicating with the patient and their families.


We understand that cancer care is a challenging field and our friendly team work closely together to adopt a supportive culture.

As part of HCA Healthcare our team are offered emotional support and career development.


Duties & Responsibilities

  • Participate in individual care needs of patients and develop appropriate care plans to implement and evaluate
  • Monitor patient care and interventions appropriately
  • Recognise deterioration in patients' condition at an early stage, (including neutropenic patients) Refer to the senior nurse and medical team appropriately
  • Attend IV/ chemotherapy drug administration training, complete workbook competence
  • Report and document adverse incidents appropriately
  • Initiate appropriate actions to isolate patients when required
  • Implement a holistic approach in the care of patients requiring infection control precautions.

Skills & Experience

  • Registered General Nurse with valid NMC pin
  • NHS or Private ward experience
  • Oncology/cancer care experience desirable
  • Passionate about patient care, respectful, responsible and committed
  • Haematology experience is desirable.

About Us:
HCA Healthcare UK - The World's largest private hospital group; providing award winning acute and complex care.


Private Care at Guy's located on the top four floors of the Cancer Centre at Guy's Hospital, and is a purpose-built facility, offering private healthcare specialising in men and women's health services as well as the entire spectrum of cancer care - allunder one roof.

Our private cancer services include outpatient and inpatient chemotherapy, haematology appointments and haematology treatment. We also offer radiotherapy on campus as part of the London Radiotherapy Centre. Complementary Therapy and Support Counselling isalso made available to our patients.

The Oncology ward consist of 22 ensuite inpatient hospital rooms: 2 positive pressure rooms for stem cell transplant patients and 4 HDU monitored beds for unwell patients not requiring ITU admissions

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