Oncology Day Unit Sister - Ashington, United Kingdom - Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
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Ashington, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full time Oncology Day Unit Sister - Band 6 based at Wansbeck General Hospital.

There will be the possibility of 2 full time positions available, depending on recruitment.

Northumbria has 5 Oncology Day Units (Hexham, North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Alnwick/Berwick).


The post holder will provide a specialist nursing service to cancer patients contributing to service delivery, the Day Unit Sister will work as part of a multi-professional team, ensuring patients with cancer receive the highest standard of care and support.

To provide clinical expertise to the Team and develop practice.

To work in close liaison with the Unit Manager, Lead Cancer Nurse, Practice Development Team and the MDT to provide the highest quality of care required to support each patient in their pathway and improve the patient experience.


Leadership experience, advanced knowledge, decision-making skills are essential and completion of, or a willingness to work towards the advanced clinical skills course or equivalent would be an advantage.


Support the Oncology Day Unit Manager to provide a high quality evidence based nurse led chemotherapy service to patients and carer's.

This will include patients attending for day case chemotherapy and patients who may contact the service for advice about their care.

Provide specialist education and training to other members of the Team.


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.

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