Job summary
Macmillan Renton Unit is an outpatient unit, providing services such as Haematology, Oncology. Gynaecology, Breast Clinics, Urology and Systemic Anti Cancer Treatment (SACT) to patients within Herefordshire and surrounding areas.

We are a satellite site for Cheltenham hospital, which means we are able to treat our patients closer to their homes.

The hours worked are flexible by negotiation, agreed to suit the service and the applicant to ensure a good work life balance.

We will invest in the successful candidate to complete their SACT administration competencies, this will be through further education either online or through Cheltenham (Gloucester University). We will support and honour set study days to complete this course.

We would also welcome those already with their SACT competencies to please apply.

This is a rewarding and exciting role, you will need to have excellent leadership and management, communication, organisational skills and the ability to foster good working relationships, offering care in a professional manner.

Main duties of the job
This is a well-supported role and you will need to have sound leadership skills, excellent communication and organisational skills and the ability to foster good working relationships, offering care in a professional manner.

The ideal candidate will be a progressive thinking nurse with the ability to work autonomously with support from the multi-disciplinary team.

You will be able to evidence proven consolidation of your post registration practice, ideally in an area that you can demonstrate a commitment to further development and relevant transferable skills.

About us
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.

Job responsibilities
To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view supporting documents linked to this vacancy.

Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential

• Registered Adult Level 1 Nurse (NMC)
• Proven post registration working in an acute clinical setting

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
Essential

• Leadership ability
• Team player
• To be flexible and adaptable
• Ability to work well under pressure
• Knowledge of audit process and quality monitoring
• Provide and receive complex/sensitive information

Experience
Essential

• Cannulation and venepuncture or willingness to undertake training
• Administration of Systemic Anti-Cancer Treatment / or willing to undertake training
• Experience in the care of patients with Central Venous Catheters or willingness to undertake training
• Experience of teaching within clinical areas
• Effective and sensitive handling of difficult information and situations

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.