Staff Nurse - Macmillan

Job overview

A rare opportunity has arisen in our Macmillan Unit as a band 5 staff nurse. 

The Macmillan Unit is a specialist unit that provides care on the same day for a variety of patients who deals with life limiting illness, cancer, either diagnostic stage through investigations or in a treatment stage through medications which include chemotherapy.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will work alongside the existing members of the Macmillan team to provide a high standard of care to patients who require treatments which includes chemotherapy, procedures of investigations to either control or diagnose the disease.

Working for our organisation

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) King's Lynn is West Norfolk has a superb unspoilt coastline with pretty villages, all with their own individual charm. The medieval port of King's Lynn has some very interesting architecture.

We provide a comprehensive range of specialist and general acute services to around 331,000 people across West and North Norfolk, in addition to parts of Breckland, Cambridgeshire and South Lincolnshire. We have more than 4,000 staff and volunteers and approximately 500 beds on a single site. Some specialist services and clinics are provided in community facilities, such as the North Cambridgeshire hospital in Wisbech. We work in partnership with neighbouring hospitals for the provision of tertiary services.

In February 2022 the QEH the Care Quality Commission rated the Trust as 'Good' in all of the core services they inspected, and recommended the Trust moves out of the recovery support system (formerly special measures).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The staff in the Macmillan Unit are looking for someone who is compassionate about patient care and who is dedicated to providing a high standard of care.

The team have built a good rapport with many of their patients due to the nature of Macmillan they are able to see some of their patients on a regular basis due to the ongoing treatment programmes of the patients they care for.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Registered Nurse with the NMC

Degree/Diploma in Nursing or equivalent

Evidence of continuous professional development including completion of the Anglia Cancer Network Chemotherapy Package or willing to work towards this

Desirable criteria

Teaching and Assessing qualification

Recognised Oncology Qualification or Chemotherapy qualification or working towards

Advanced Chemotherapy Course

Skills

Essential criteria

Ability to plan and prioritise care for patients

Confident and calm attitude with an ability to work under pressure

Ability to provide holistic nursing care

Accurate documentation with attention to detail

Teaching, assessment and supervision of others

Knowledge of professional issues in nursing incorporating NMC and IPAC

Desirable criteria

Clinical Governance experience

Risk Management experience

Experience

Essential criteria

Relevant experience of looking after patients in a healthcare environment

Able to demonstrate utilisation of research based evidence and recent use of audit

Desirable criteria

Relevant Post-Registration clinical experience

Previous experience in cancer care

Applications are welcome from anyone who meets the criteria specified in the person specification regardless of age, gender, disability, race ,ethnicity, religion, belief, sexual orientation or other personal circumstances. Only those applicants who demonstrate in the application form how they meet the criteria in the person specification will be shortlisted for interview. We not only recruit employees based on their qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who possess and can demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our core values (attached).

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We offer our staff a wide range of benefits and support including:

Flexible working opportunities

Free counselling service

NHS Pension scheme

Access to Wagestream - an app-based service that provides instant earned wage access*

Support and advice for staff affected by either Peri-Menopause or Menopause

Free parking for all staff until March 2024

Opportunity to join our Staff Networks which include: Armed Forces, REACH (Race, Ethnicity and Culture Heritage), Disability and LGBTQ+ networks.

We are committed to being a menopause friendly employer.

Please note due to high volume of applications for some posts, this post may close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role asap.

Admin & Clerical staff may be required to act as Loggists for a major incident.

Everyone within the Trust has or will shortly need to have a minimum level of skill for computer literacy for their day-to day- work as we become more digitally mature. Therefore all staff shoulld be computer literate.

Team QEH are one of the most research-active organisations for our size in the UK, recruiting 2,188 in 20/21 and ranked 10/16 in the Eastern Region. We have a wide-ranging and diverse portfolio of clinical studies and also recognised as one of the fastest trusts in the country from set up to recruitment.