Job Overview
12-Month Secondment Opportunity – Band 5 Staff Nurse (Maternity Cover)
Location: Eden Ward, Wexham Park Hospital
We are offering a 12-month secondment opportunity for a
Band 5 Staff Nurse to join the Eden Ward team within our
cancer and chemotherapy services. This is a fantastic chance to gain experience in a specialist oncology setting, with support to develop your skills and confidence in delivering high-quality cancer care.
Key Responsibilities
Provide safe, compassionate, and effective care to patients receiving intensive chemotherapy
Support coordination of the daily patient list and assist with workload allocation
Administer chemotherapy safely and in line with best practice guidelines (training will be provided where needed)
Triage and assess patients using the UKONS system
About You
We are looking for someone who is:
A motivated and enthusiastic team player
Keen to expand their knowledge and skills in cancer and chemotherapy care
Committed to delivering excellent standards of patient care
Why Join Us?
This secondment offers a valuable opportunity for professional development within oncology nursing. If you are passionate about patient-centred care and looking to broaden your expertise in a specialist area, this role could be the perfect next step.
Main duties of the job
- Responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of individual patient care with minimal supervision.
- To work as part of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure that treatments are correctly carried out in accordance with given policy.
- Responsible for the assessment of complex care needs of chemotherapy patients and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care.
- Lead and monitor the performance and standards of care within the Nursing Team.
- Work collaboratively with the other members of cancer services team to facilitate the development of the service
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for main responsibilities of this role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RGN Level 1
- Current NMC Registration
Desirable criteria
- Trained in the administration of chemotherapy
Experience
Essential criteria
- Competent in basic life support and IV administration
- Acute Medical Nursing Environment
- Teaching and supervising of junior staff
- Effective working with multi-disciplinary teams
- Has experience working with EPR system
Desirable criteria
- Experienced in working in oncology
- Has experience or training with administration of chemotherapy
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Effective communication skills (written and verbal)
- Good interpersonal skills with the ability to manage difficult / stressful situations
- Time management and delegation skills
- Able to train and supervise junior staff
- Able to manage a team in the absence of the team leader
- Able to prioritise workload (self and others) and meet deadlines
Desirable criteria
- Has experience or competent in administration of chemotherapy and care for patients undergoing cancer treatments
Special Requirements
Essential criteria
- To work in other areas of the department when required
- Able to work flexible shifts, weekends and bank holidays as required
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
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