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Are you looking for an exciting career in Oncology/Haematology?

The Chemotherapy Day Unit has a vacancy for a dynamic and motivated staff nurse.

The successful applicant will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and show enthusiasm for caring for chemotherapy patients in a day unit setting. You will be able to work independently yet be an important part of a busy nurse led team. We provide a high standard of nursing care, treating a diverse group of patients. The successful applicant will be given the opportunity to undertake further study within 6 months of a successful appointment and to be adopted by Macmillan.

For an informal discussion please contact Karolina Kliczbor/ Gibi Biju on 03006136277.

• To work as a member of the nursing team led by senior nurses to provide high quality nursing care to patients within the Haematology Day Unit.
• To behave in a manner as laid down in the NMC code of professional conduct.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our threecore values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other,Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties

• To plan, implement, deliver, and evaluate nursing care within the day unit
• To be responsible for high standards of nursing care
• To assist in the auditing of patient care and service delivery
• To maintain good nursing documentation in accordance with trust policy
• To ensure safe and appropriate discharge from the Day Unit following consultation/treatment
• To manage and advise patients and other members of staff on peripheral and central lines
• To be able to interpret blood results and act accordingly
• To acquire, use, develop and teach additional skills eg venesection, cannulation and venepuncture
• Leadership
• To plan, organise and deploy staff according to competencies and workload
• To take an active part in appraisal and the setting and achieving of personal objectives
• Attend departmental and Trust meetings as appropriate
• To demonstrate an awareness of budgetary issue

For a full list of responsibilities, please see the attached job description.