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Job summary

Main area
Haematology
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Long days and nights)
Job ref
196-NM12958
Employer
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Olive and Hazel Ward, Guy's Hospital, SE19RT
Town
London
Salary
£44,806 - £53,134 p.a inc HCA
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
27/06/2025 23:59
Interview date
07/07/2025

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Senior Staff Nurse - Olive and Hazel/Hawthorn

NHS AfC: Band 6

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.

Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions. 

Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.

The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.



Job overview

We are looking for enthusiastic, confident, dynamic and motivated experienced nurses with excellent communication skills and experience of oncology and haematology patients who contribute in maintaining highest standards of care whilst demonstrating effective leadership and providing support.

You are expected to provide ongoing care for Oncology and Haematology patients (including Sickle Cell) in our inpatient ward Olive and Hazel (which will be transferred to Hawthorn Ward - when the new ward opens). You will be working with the wider multidisciplinary team in supporting patients receiving chemotherapy, radiotherapy and supportive care. 

Overview:

We are looking for nurses wishing to develop their leadership skills and come join us on this exciting journey in caring for our Haematology Oncology patients. 

All applicants must have NMC registration and ideally experience in Haematology Oncology.

Main duties of the job

This ward is part of a larger portfolio of Cancer and Sickle Cell wards. These units require a highly skilled workforce and staff will require experience in caring for patients with cancer or sickle cell disease.  Staff will learn to care for patients having treatments, and learn the skills to administer chemotherapy.  Experience of this will be an advantage but training will be provided.
 

Hawthorn and Olive & Hazel:

Hawthorn Ward is an inpatient ward (15 beds) and Olive and Hazel are joint wards (26 beds) which will deliver specialist inpatient care for people with cancer and blood malignancies.

Working for our organisation

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities of the senior staff nurse role on Olive and Hazel  includes supporting the nursing and multidisciplinary workforce  in contributing  to delivering  high standards of clinical leadership, and committed to excellent standard of patient care.

Responsible for assessing and recognising emergencies in the specialty. Supporting and leading the team in adhering to areas of compliance and governance.  Provide leadership, support and guidance to staff in monitoring the planning and delivering of patient care.

*Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for more details*

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of administering intravenous drug therapy
  • Experience of working on own and in a team
  • Experience of working in the relevant area
  • Experience as NIC, understanding of skill mix and rostering
  • Experience as mentor/teaching for junior and students
  • Link role experience, including QI and audits
Desirable criteria
  • Leadership experience
  • SACT/Chemotherapy trained

Values and behaviours

Essential criteria
  • Trust values and behvaiours demonstrated

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Able to prioritise & meet deadlines
  • Ability to administer prescribed medication including transfusion of blood and blood products
  • Uses own initiative and is able to take decisions
  • Able to supervise and teach junior staff
Desirable criteria
  • Able to administer chemotherapy

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • NMC Registered

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Abigael Knight
Job title
Sister
Email address
[email protected]
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