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Staff Nurse (Band 6) Teenage Cancer Trust Unit
| Posting date: | 25 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | £42,939.00 to £50,697.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £42939.00 - £50697.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 May 2025 |
| Location: | Sutton, SM2 5PT |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9282-25-0388 |
Summary
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification: To complete the first level assessment of patients with cancer and their families to gain anunderstanding of their physiological, psycho-social, spiritual and cultural needs and to develop apositive, realistic and supportive attitude to ensure that these needs are met. This will include: Counterchecking patients vital signs, blood results, patient body surface area, chemotherapyprescription and consent before administration of treatment. Educating patients on their treatment such as indications and side effects. Ensuring necessary medication and follow up appointments are obtained. To 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 theSister/Charge Nurse of any changes. To set goals for each of the identified nursing issues andencourage / teach other nursing staff to do the same. To help the patient achieve set goals throughcare planning. As a specialist cancer nurse, to assess the educational and informational needs of the patient andfamily. This includes producing and using appropriate materials to ensure optimumunderstanding of nursing care and the likely outcome.