# Staff Nurse (Band 6) - Children's Day Unit

**Company**: The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Sutton
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: £45,953 to £54,254 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Our busy CYP Daycare and Outpatients sees over 6000 thousand patients a year, requiring systemic anti-cancer therapy, radiotherapy, and supportive care, delivered by our team. The age range of our patients is 1 to 24 year old, making CYPDU a very unique unit at the Royal Marsden Hospital.

We are looking for Child Registered Nurse candidates that have the drive and passion to bring ideas forward, lead on projects to improve the patients journey through the service. The candidate will need a qualification in oncology or speciality as essential requirement for a Band 6, but we want to support you in this journey.

**Main duties of the job**

- Coordinate and supervise a shift, communicating effectively with members of a multidisciplinary team to deliver high quality, evidence-led care to patients.

- Exercise clinical judgment and decision making about patient needs in terms of long term goals or plans.

- Participate fully in the day to day organization and running of clinical trials including the recruitment, education and monitoring of patients entering a clinical trial and liaison as required with trial sponsors.

**Job responsibilities**

- Countercheck patients' vital signs, blood results, patient body surface area, chemotherapy prescription and consent before administration of treatment.

- Educate patients on their treatment such as indications and side effects.

- Ensure necessary medication and follow-up appointments are obtained.

- Plan, document, deliver and evaluate care plans from admission through to discharge / transfer discussing this with the patient, their family and multi-disciplinary teams and to alert the Sister/Charge Nurse of any changes.

**Benefits**

- Competitive salary: £45,953 to £54,254 a year

- Flexible working requests welcomed

- Wide range of staff benefits, learning and development opportunities and clear career pathways

**Requirements**

- NMC Child Registration

- Evidence of ongoing professional development

- RMH Certificate in Intravenous Drug Administration or to be obtained within three months of appointment

- Experience in intravenous drug administration

- Sufficient post registration nursing experience in oncology or speciality to be confident and competent in using the required skills to do the job

## Skills

### Required
- Child Registered Nurse
- oncology
- intravenous drug administration
- Microsoft Word
- Outlook

### Nice to have
- qualification in oncology or speciality
- Diploma or Degree level study
- recognised teaching qualification
- experience in chemotherapy administration
- venepuncture and/or cannulation skills

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