Description
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.
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 multidisciplinary team 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 the administration 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.
Benefits
- Career development, flexible working and wellbeing
- Staff recognition scheme
- Optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities
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)
- Experience of leading and developing a team
- Experience in administration of SACT
- Experience of budget management
- Experience of audit and service development
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