Job overview

Would consider a developmental post if not all criteria is met. 

To act as an autonomous practitioner within the Macmillan Renton Unit clinics, making critical clinical decisions independently when diagnosing, monitoring and managing patients with a malignancy.  To include prescribing and confirming patients for anti-cancer treatments.

Macmillan Renton Unit is a satellite site for Cheltenham and Gloucester hospitals foundation Trust, Oncology Centre. The unit is open 5 days per week, with site specific Oncologists visiting on specific days. We assess and treat for SACT. We work very closely with the Oncology Centre and Cheltenham nursing teams. There may be times where cross cover between sites is required, but all training on systems will be provided and you would be fully supported.

Main duties of the job

• To improve outcomes for patients by improving cancer services and quality of cancer care
• To act as a resource for junior doctors and registered nurses requiring specialist support and participate in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of quality nursing care.
• To act as an interface between medical practitioners, nursing staff, the multidisciplinary team, patients and carers
• To organise own time, caseload, cover, educational training and teaching sessions
• To support medical staff in the management of patients with a known or suspected malignant diagnosis.
• To plan and participate in the education of other staff as appropriate.
• The review unwell patients in MRU and act accordingly, particularly prescribing and requesting tests.

Working for our organisation

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we’d want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”

Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.