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The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust
Location:
King's Lynn, United Kingdom
Job Category:
Other
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Yes
Job Reference:
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Job Views:
95
Posted:
11.03.2025
Expiry Date:
25.04.2025
Job Description:
Job overview
A rare opportunity has arisen in our Macmillan Unit as a band 5 staff nurse.
The Macmillan Unit is a specialist unit that provides care on the same day for a variety of patients who deal with life-limiting illness and cancer, either at the diagnostic stage through investigations or in the treatment stage through medications which include chemotherapy.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will work alongside the existing members of the Macmillan team to provide a high standard of care to patients who require treatments, including chemotherapy and procedures of investigations to either control or diagnose the disease.
Working for our organisation
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) King's Lynn is located in West Norfolk, which has a superb unspoilt coastline with pretty villages, all with their own individual charm. The medieval port of King's Lynn features interesting architecture.
We provide a comprehensive range of specialist and general acute services to around 331,000 people across West and North Norfolk, in addition to parts of Breckland, Cambridgeshire, and South Lincolnshire. We have more than 4,000 staff and volunteers and approximately 500 beds on a single site. Some specialist services and clinics are provided in community facilities, such as the North Cambridgeshire hospital in Wisbech. We work in partnership with neighbouring hospitals for the provision of tertiary services.
In February 2022, the QEH was rated as 'Good' by the Care Quality Commission in all of the core services they inspected and recommended the Trust moves out of the recovery support system (formerly special measures).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The staff in the Macmillan Unit are looking for someone who is compassionate about patient care and dedicated to providing a high standard of care.
The team has built a good rapport with many of their patients due to the nature of Macmillan, allowing them to see some patients on a regular basis due to the ongoing treatment programmes.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse with the NMC
* Degree/Diploma in Nursing or equivalent
* Evidence of continuous professional development including completion of the Anglia Cancer Network Chemotherapy Package or willing to work towards this
* Teaching and Assessing qualification
* Recognised Oncology Qualification or Chemotherapy qualification or working towards
* Advanced Chemotherapy Course
Skills
* Ability to plan and prioritise care for patients
* Confident and calm attitude with the ability to work under pressure
* Ability to provide holistic nursing care
* Accurate documentation with attention to detail
* Teaching, assessment, and supervision of others
* Knowledge of professional issues in nursing incorporating NMC and IPAC
* Clinical Governance experience
Experience
* Relevant experience of looking after patients in a healthcare environment
* Able to demonstrate utilisation of research-based evidence and recent use of audit
* Relevant Post-Registration clinical experience
* Previous experience in cancer care
Applications are welcome from anyone who meets the criteria specified in the person specification regardless of age, gender, disability, race, ethnicity, religion, belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances. Only those applicants who demonstrate in the application form how they meet the criteria in the person specification will be shortlisted for an interview. We recruit individuals who possess and can demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our core values.
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We offer our staff a wide range of benefits and support including:
* Flexible working opportunities
* Free counselling service
* Access to Wagestream - an app-based service that provides instant earned wage access
* Support and advice for staff affected by either Peri-Menopause or Menopause
* Free parking for all staff until March 2024
Opportunity to join our Staff Networks which include: Armed Forces, REACH (Race, Ethnicity and Culture Heritage), Disability, and LGBTQ+ networks.
We are committed to being a menopause-friendly employer.
Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this post may close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.
Admin & Clerical staff may be required to act as Loggists for a major incident.
Everyone within the Trust has or will shortly need to have a minimum level of skill for computer literacy for their day-to-day work as we become more digitally mature. Therefore all staff should be computer literate.
Team QEH is one of the most research-active organisations for our size in the UK, recruiting 2,188 in 20/21 and ranked 10/16 in the Eastern Region. We have a wide-ranging and diverse portfolio of clinical studies and are recognised as one of the fastest trusts in the country from set up to recruitment.
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