Bank Oncology Nurse | Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	03 June 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£31,049 - £37,796 pro rata per annum
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	03 July 2025
Location:	Trustwide, NE27 0QJ
Company:	Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7246202/319-7246202JA

Summary

We require reliable, enthusiastic and motivated Oncology Nurses to join our bank within Northumberland and North Tyneside.

In return you will can offer you:

· Flexible hours; choose when and where you want to work

· Competitive pay rates; including enhanced pay for unsociable hours

· Paid annual leave

· NHS pension scheme

· A fast-track recruitment process if you move to a substantive role

· Opportunities to work in different wards and departments, including community, dental and specialist services

· Access to Services, such as those provided by our Staff Wellbeing Team

· Ability to book your shifts from home using our online portal

· Option to block-book shifts in a set period

· SMS notifications of shift availability

· Access to staff newsletters and bulletins

· Eligible for various local and national discounts which are available to NHS staff

· Free uniform, where applicable



Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

There are bank assignments all around the Trust, including our community settings in Haltwhistle, Berwick, Alnwick, Morpeth, Rothbury, Blyth as well as our main hospitals in Hexham, Ashington, North Tyneside and Cramlington. We have a range of shifts, 7 days per week including day shifts, early shifts , late shifts , twilight, nights and weekends. With bank you can pick and choose which shifts suit you.

Main duties of the role include:

To assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care working as a member of the nurse led oncology day unit team under the direction of the Unit Manager.
To be responsible for the organising and co-ordination of nursing services in the unit, in the absence of senior staff on a regular basis.
To exercise accountability as set out in the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
To be responsible for all nursing care standards and to maintain high clinical standards.
With appropriate training and support safely administer a wide range of Anti-Systemic Cancer Treatment (SACT) and supportive care to patients.
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.

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.

To assess, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of care in partnership with the patient and the multidisciplinary team e.g. SACT.
• To promote health with all patients and carers.
• To deliver governance standards in line with the ‘Essence of Care Standards’ and the Trust’s Governance framework.
• To respond to enquiries from relatives and carers, deal with concerns and actively problem solve to improve the patients experience.
• In the absence of senior staff to take charge of the unit managing skill mix, rota’s, workload and case mix to the dependencies within the unit environment.
• Ensuring appropriate use of physical+ budgetary resources.
• Act as named nurse / team leader managing patient care from admission to discharge. Actively instigating discharge involves liaising with MDT’s and outside agencies where required.

• Administering medications, blood products, fluids, cannulation and venepuncture.
• Undertake the safe administration of SACT via a variety of routes.
• Care of Vascular access devices.
• Manipulation of fine tools / materials where accuracy is important e.g. calculation, reconstitution of drugs, venepuncture and cannulation and delivery of SACT.

• Assess patient’s condition e.g. Holistic symptom assessment and use of Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events.
• Through education/training acquire the ability to interpret the necessary blood results prior to the administration of SACT and manage toxicities with support.
• Judgements on problems requiring investigation, analysis, e.g. blood results and assessment of patient /toxicity/adverse effects from treatment.

• To maintain one’s own high professional standards and discuss opportunities to develop clinical practice with the line manager.
• Alert the line manager or on call management team of any untoward situation.
• To take charge of the management of a group of patients on a regular basis, acting as named nurse / primary nurse.
• Clearly defined occupational policies, work is managed, rather than supervised.


This advert closes on Sunday 22 Jun 2025

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