Oncology Sister in Guildford

Guilford Hospital | Nursing | Permanent | Full Time

Up to £51,000 per annum depending on skills and experience

37.5 hours per week

As the UK’s largest Healthcare Charity, we’re offering you the chance to help shape the highest standards in patient care. Here, you’ll have the time you need to role model good practice and develop your colleagues. We’ll value your excellent communication skills and enthusiastic, forward-thinking approach.

The Oak Suite is a friendly and supportive day‑case chemotherapy unit, delivering high‑quality care through a combination of clinical excellence and a holistic, patient‑focused approach. We provide SACT chemotherapy and supportive treatments for patients with a range of oncology conditions. With 19 chemotherapy chairs, our unit offers a dynamic and collaborative environment, making this an excellent opportunity to join a dedicated team and further develop your specialist expertise in cancer care.

As an Oncology Sister / Charge Nurse within our Chemotherapy Unit, you will be an experienced NMC‑registered nurse with strong leadership skills and post‑registration experience caring for cancer patients undergoing Systemic Anti‑Cancer Therapy (SACT). You will work closely with our Oncology Team, Oncologists, Oncology Pharmacists and Complimentary Therapists ensuring seamless, safe and effective care.

Responsibilities:

• Be responsible for ensuring the provision of exemplary care for patients undergoing cancer treatment, working closely with the Lead Cancer Nurse to educate and support both patients and staff.
• Supervise, mentor and teach staff within the clinical area, supporting the hospital management team by providing strong clinical leadership.
• Have experience in the administration of SACT, supported by a recognised, university‑accredited qualification.
• Bring experience across Cancer/Oncology Nursing, demonstrating a clear understanding of cancer, its treatments, and the impact on patients and their families.
• Be an effective communicator with patients, colleagues and key stakeholders.
• Possess comprehensive clinical expertise and up‑to‑date knowledge of current professional practice and cancer policy requirements.
• Actively contribute to improving the quality of information provided to patients and carers, ensuring it is accessible, informative, and supported by mechanisms for gathering and responding to feedback.
• Maintain awareness of current professional and clinical practice developments, ensuring national policy and best practice are reflected in day‑to‑day care.
• Initiate, plan, lead and facilitate audit and clinical effectiveness projects/programmes that provide clinical assurance and support service development aligned with research and best practice.
• Hold a chemotherapy qualification (essential), with a cancer‑specific qualification desirable.

Requirements:

• Be an experienced NMC‑registered nurse with strong leadership skills (post‑registration experience in caring for cancer patients undergoing SACT).
• Hold a chemotherapy qualification (essential), with a cancer‑specific qualification desirable.

Benefits:

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.

Guildford Hospital information:

Nuffield Health Guildford Hospital provides high‑quality healthcare working with leading Consultants to offer a range of services and treatments for preventing, diagnosing and treating a wide array of medical conditions and offer a wide range of complex surgery and services. We are proud to have received a "good" rating from the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Our facilities include 49 en‑suite patient bedrooms, 4 operating theatres, acute dependency and oncology units. We’ve been awarded the Macmillan Quality Environment Mark for cancer care and our Endoscopy service has achieved JAG accreditation. Our site is shared with an NHS Trust hospital, giving us access to their facilities. The working atmosphere is highly professional and stimulating, yet friendly and collaborative like that of a large family unit. The hospital is easily accessible from the A3 or M25 and we are located about 1.5 miles from Guildford town centre.

Application:

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