Staff Nurse Cancer Care (C7 & Hamwic House)
Main area: Cancer Care
Grade Band: 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours:
* Full time
* Part time
37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 188-NM020125
Site: Southampton General Hospital
Town: Southampton
Salary: £29,970.00 - £36,483.00 per annum
Closing: 29/01/2025 23:59
Interview date: 05/02/2025
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.
Main duties of the job
An exciting opportunity has arisen for enthusiastic and motivated Nurses to join the team at Hamwic House (the oncology day unit) and C7 (the haematology day unit). Both units are purpose-built at University Hospital Southampton and provide patients with outpatient cancer services such as systemic anti-cancer therapies (SACT) including supportive infusions and blood products, outpatient clinics, phlebotomy, PICC line insertions, venesections, and pentamidine nebulisers. C7 also includes the Apheresis (harvesting of blood components) services including the on-call emergency service, as well as ambulatory pathways for various treatments.
Hamwic House’s treatment area is open Monday to Friday from 8am to 8pm and we are open on Sunday for blood tests and CVAD care. As well as treating patients at UHS, we send a team of nurses to Lymington hospital twice a week to offer treatments closer to patients' homes through an outreach service.
C7’s treatment area is open Monday to Friday from 8am to 8pm and 8am-4pm on Saturday and Sunday. The Apheresis service runs Monday-Friday as well as the 24/7 on-call service.
Our goal is to provide all our patients who are undergoing cancer diagnosis, treatment, and ongoing care with gold standard support and compassion and hope to grow our wonderful team of nurses and healthcare assistants who provide that care.
Working for our organisation
As one of the largest acute teaching Trusts in England, we offer learning and development opportunities to help you achieve the career you aspire to.
All non-clinical roles may involve a mixture of on-site and remote working. Specific details and flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process. UHS employees are able to access a range of NHS discounts, are entitled to a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme.
Southampton is an attractive place to live and work situated on the south coast, with an international airport and direct trains to London. The New Forest National Park and beaches of the Jurassic coast are also right on our doorstep. The city offers living costs 20% lower than London and 14 schools rated outstanding by Ofsted.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
At Hamwic House, you will be responsible for caring for adult patients who are mostly undergoing anti-cancer treatments such as chemotherapy and immunotherapy in a day unit setting. To become competent in safely delivering SACT, you will attend a SACT study day provided by UHS. Through this course, you will be supported by a ward mentor as well as the SACT educator team. Additional skills required will be cannulation and venesection, care of CVADs, NG tube insertion, and scalp cooling.
The unit supports patients by administering therapies within the hospital setting as well as providing an outreach service to treat patients closer to home. This service takes place at Lymington hospital, with scope to develop this service further, meeting the NHS England target of treating patients closer to home. You will become a highly skilled professional leading to opportunities for future career development from ANP, CNS, and managerial roles.
Your role will include:
* Administering anti-cancer treatments
* Administering supportive medications and blood products
* Working closely with the MDT in providing a patient-centered approach for all patients attending the unit
* Working flexibly within the Hamwic nursing team to support all services
* Recognising deterioration in patients’ condition, including neutropenic patients and escalating appropriately
* Developing your knowledge and skills in cancer nursing by attending oncology-specific study days and courses
* Maintaining IV skills including cannulation and phlebotomy
On C7, you will be responsible for caring for adult haematology (blood cancers and non-malignant) patients who are mostly undergoing anti-cancer treatments such as chemotherapy and immunotherapy in a day unit setting. This also involves support in developing the competency to safely deliver SACT and other skills including CVADs, blood products, cannulation, and venesection.
The unit also supports patients with apheresis, the service of which includes:
* ECP – Extra Corporeal Photopheresis
* Plasma Exchange and emergency plasma exchange for TTP and other emergency procedures
* Auto transplant stem cell harvest – bone marrow transplant
* Allo transplants – sibling donor harvests – bone marrow transplant
* Red Cell Exchange – sickle cell crisis prevention
* Paediatric Harvest (Child Health care group relies on C7 to provide their service)
Person specification
Qualifications, knowledge and experience
* Qualified Nurse (Degree/Diploma)
* Registered nurse on appropriate part of the register
* Knowledge of current issues within acute Health Service
* Understanding of personal accountability
* Knowledge of own role within the team
* Provide evidence of teaching and supporting learners in practice in the role of practice supervisor
* Awareness of evidence-based practice
* Awareness of responsibilities for management of infection control
* Evidence of ongoing personal development
* Able to use initiative
* Evidence of recent study
* Previous experience/qualification in relevant specialty
* Teaching experience
Skills and competencies
* Prioritisation
* Teamwork
* Multitasking
* Time management
Trust Values
* Patients First
* Always Improving
* Working Together
Please be advised that this vacancy may close earlier than stated if we receive a large number of applications. We will not accept any applications or queries via agencies, under any circumstances.
Our commitment to equality
Equality remains at the centre of our policymaking, service delivery, and employment practice, giving all employees equal opportunity to develop, apply for promotions, and have working arrangements that enable them to achieve a manageable work-life balance.
UHS actively promotes a work environment free from harassment and discrimination and provides training for managers and staff to ensure this happens. We also closely monitor recruitment activity, training, development, and employment practices to ensure equality of practice with regard to race, colour, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, and age.
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