Oncology Day Unit Sister/ Charge Nurse

at  Northumbria Healthcare NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full time Oncology Day Unit Sister/Charge Nurse based at North Tyneside General Hospital.
The candidate will also join the out of hours emergency telephone helpline to manage the service during evenings, weekends and bank holidays - this will involve independent decision making to help manage acute care of patients who are unwell offering advice and guidance.
Northumbria has 5 Oncology Day Units (Hexham, North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Alnwick/Berwick) .
The post holder will provide a specialist nursing service to cancer patients contributing to service delivery, the Day Unit Sister/Charge Nurse will work as part of a multi-professional team, ensuring patients with cancer receive the highest standard of care and support.
To provide clinical expertise to the Team and develop practice. To work in close liaison with the Unit Manager, Lead Cancer Nurse, Practice Development Team and the MDT to provide the highest quality of care required to support each patient in their pathway and improve the patient experience.
To act as a clinical nurse leader, taking responsibility for the professional development of yourself and a group of nurses. Candidates should be able to demonstrate their ability to work autonomously and have excellent communication skills.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Support the Oncology Day Unit Manager to provide a high quality evidence based nurse led chemotherapy service to patients and carer’s. This will include patients attending for day case chemotherapy and patients who may contact the service for advice about their care.
Provide specialist education and training to other members of the Team.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries

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