Trust Lead SACT Nurse & Matron for Oncology Outpatients
Band 8a
Main area Oncology Grade Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 290-SCCS-2412
Site Charing Cross Hospital Town London Salary £66,274 - £73,496 pa inclusive Salary period Yearly Closing 16/11/2026 23:59
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
Are you an experienced cancer nurse looking for an exciting opportunity to make a real difference and shape the future of cancer care? We are delighted to offer an opportunity to join our Senior Clinical Leadership Team as Trust Lead Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT) Nurse and Matron for Oncology Outpatients. This is a permanent Band 8a position, offering 37.5 hours per week, and is a Macmillan-badged post with access to valuable support and educational funding to support your continued professional development.
This is an exciting opportunity for an inspirational and forward-thinking clinical leader to provide visible, proactive and effective professional leadership, championing the delivery of safe, high-quality, patient-centred care. You will play a key role in ensuring that patients remain at the heart of everything we do, driving improvements in the patient experience and promoting the highest standards of clinical practice. Working closely with the Lead Nurse, Directorate Management Team, cancer wards and units, and Cancer Networks, you will lead and influence local and Trust-wide initiatives, providing strategic nursing leadership for Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT) across the Trust. This is an excellent opportunity to shape services, empower teams, influence strategic developments and make a lasting difference to the experience and outcomes of people affected by cancer.
Main duties of the job
- Post holder provides clinical and managerial leadership to the nursing and multi professional team across cancer services. This role includes acting as a clinical leader and an expert practitioner; liaising, guiding and advising the multidisciplinaryteam and external agencies in the provision of outstanding patient care.
- The post holder will be responsible for supporting the development of training resources, the mentoring and supporting of junior staff across cancer services, this includes leading the strategy for teaching and assessing for sign off in theadministration of anti-cancer treatments across Trust.
- To foster a culture of incident reporting and responding to incidents, reflection, equal opportunity, openness, mutual respect between the professions and professional development within the unit.
- Participate in and support the development of nursing research and audit where appropriate both locally and Trust wide. Ensure that findings are disseminated and recommendations implemented and monitored.
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk tous at interview.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
For both overviewsplease view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
- NMC registration and a post registration qualification(s) in area of practice or relevant speciality at level 7 (Cancer)
- Degree level study and postgraduate qualification applicable to cancer care. e.g. Chemotherapy/SACT
- Leadership and Management course(s)
- Working towards MSc
- Recognised teaching qualification
Experience
- Experience of leading and developing a team
- Experience in administration of SACT.
- Experience of budget management
- Experience of audit and service development
- Project management
Skills/knowledge/ abilities
- Able to demonstrate advanced communication and teaching/assessing skills.
- Excellent organisational skills and advanced ICT skills, including Microsoft office
- Ability to work effectively under pressure
- Ability to meet deadlines
- Ability to design and deliver education programmes
Right to work
If you need sponsorship to work in the UK, please visit the Home Office website for information on sponsorship and visa status before you fill in your application form. Due to recent changes in the UK immigration rules which affect Skilled Worker Visas, Global Business Mobility, Higher Skill Level and Increased Salary Thresholds, please ensure that you are able to meet the requirements to live and work in the UK before applying. Further information about eligibility is available on UK Visas and Immigration - GOV.UK
We operate a joint recruitment hub across the North West London Acute Provider Collaborative Group. As part of this, your application and personal data may be shared with partner trusts within the group for recruitment and workforce purposes, in line with general data protection regulation (GDPR).
Vacancy Closing Date
This vacancy may close before the current listed closing date. You are advised not to delay submitting your completed application.
Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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