Job summary
- Main area
- Chemotherapy suite
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week (3 days a week 08:00 - 16:00 No weekends or bank holidays.)
- Job ref
- 326-7178525-RB
- Employer
- Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- East Surrey Hospital
- Town
- Redhill
- Salary
- £14,775 - £15,404 per annum plus high cost allowance
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Nursing Assistant - Chemotherapy Suite
NHS AfC: Band 3
Job overview
An exciting opportunity for career development and to further improve local chemotherapy services has arisen for an experienced Nursing Assistant to work on the Chemotherapy suite.
The Role:
We are looking for a dynamic, enthusiastic and experienced Nursing Assistant who is committed to the Trust’s vision and values working as ‘One Team’ for the benefit of patients within our care.
Job Summary:
To assist in joining a nurse led team that delivers chemotherapy and supportive therapies to patients in an outpatient setting at East Surrey Hospital ensuring the highest possible standards of care are received by patients and their carers while on the unit, under the supervision of a Registered Nurse.
The post holder is also responsible for organising their own workload and will fulfil all administrative and clerical tasks associated with efficient patient flow and discharge processes in Chemotherapy suite.
The Person:
Applications are invited from individuals with excellent interpersonal and communication skills; a commitment to the provision of a high standard of care to patients and the ability to treat all patients, relatives and other members of staff with dignity and respect.
Main duties of the job
Working for our organisation
We provide emergency and non-emergency services to the residents of East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon, including the major towns of Crawley, Horsham, Reigate and Redhill; a community of over 535,000 people. We provide acute and complex services and a range of outpatient, diagnostic services whilst Crawley Hospital and Horsham in West Sussex and Caterham Dene Hospital and Oxted Health Centre in Surrey provide less complex planned services. In 2019 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated our services as ‘Outstanding’ and we are one of the best performing Trusts in England:
- Winners of Health Service Journal Acute Trust of the year award 2021.
- National Patient Safety Awards winner and strive to be a beacon for safety in all that we do.
- We are rated the sixth highest trust in the South East and in the top 25% nationally for staff recommending the Trust as a place to work or receive treatment.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Once you understand the requirements outlined in the advert, please ensure your application accurately reflects where you match them. For further information regarding the role please read the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Criteria
Essential criteria
- • Evidence of a good standard of written English appropriate to the role
- • A complete and accurate application
- • Suitability for role evidenced in supporting statement
- • Evidence of essential experience for role
- • Meet the essential education/qualifications required for the role
- • Hold the necessary mandatory professional/clinical registration
- • Evidence of the Trust values and behaviours
- • Evidence of any other essential criteria outlined in the person specification
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Laura brooks
- Job title
- Chemotherapy Suite Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01737 768511
- Additional information
extension 6690
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