Registered Nurse

Go back Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 15 September 2025

To be responsible for the standards of patient care and services within the team, ensuring that nursing practice and patient services are in line with NMC Codes, statutory and Trust requirements.

To safely deliver SACT treatments to patients in line with Trust guidelines both within inpatient wards (Yeo and Yarty), Cherrybrook Unit and in the Outreach locations.

To work together as a team, providing psychological, physical, social and spiritual support to patients receiving treatment

For more detail about the main duties of this role, please see the job description section below. As a key member of the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, you will be joining an exceptional team working together to help our patients to stay healthy, when they need it most.

Stretching across Northern, Eastern and Mid Devon, we have a workforce of over 15,000 staff, making us the largest employer in Devon. Our core services, which we provide to more than 615,000 people, cover more than 2,000 square miles across Devon, while some of our specialist services cover the whole of the peninsula, extending our reach as far as Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

We deliver a wide range of emergency, specialist and general medical services through North Devon District Hospital and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Wonford).

Alongside our two acute hospitals, we provide integrated health and social care services across a variety of settings, including community inpatient hospitals, outpatient clinics, and within peoples own homes. We also offer primary care services, a range of specialist community services, and Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARC).

Our state-of-the-art equipment, leading technologies and strong links to local universities put us at the forefront of research and innovations, enabling us to provide world-class care to our local communities.

Its never been a more exciting time to join the Royal Devon, as youll help to shape our services as we continue along our integration journey.

For more information on the Job Description and Responsibilities please click the link below.

More detail about the role

Cancer services includes Haematology (Yarty inpatient, day case, outpatients) and Oncology (Yeo inpatients, Cherrybrook day case and outpatients). We currently have vacancies in Yarty and Cherrybrook.

About us

The service ethos is one of multi-disciplinary working supporting a holistic approach to care provided for patients and relatives. Both services provide a designated quiet space for patients & relatives, including Teenager & Young persons dedicated rooms allowing for relatives to stay, and end of life accommodation.

Haematology consists of an Inpatient ward, Day case and Outpatients in a dedicated purpose-built facility. Yarty ward is a 14 bedded Haematology unit with attached day case caring for people receiving treatments including Systemic Anti-Cancer Treatments (SACT) Supportive care/Stem cell transplant programme and End of life care.

Oncology consists of an Inpatient ward, Day case, Outpatients and Radiotherapy. Yeo is a 23 bedded ward providing care across many cancer sites from patients receiving treatments including SACT, Radiotherapy and Radioactive iodine therapy.

We care for patients across the whole of Devon throughout their pathway, undergoing diagnostic, curative and palliative treatments, including the management of symptoms related to their therapies or their disease process.

Both areas support the day case areas, provide 24 triage lines for cancer patients and directly admit patients to the inpatients wards as required. Due to the skill set of oncology and haematology nurses, the teams work very closely together, including joint working at Outreach locations.

The service is supported by two local charities Exeter Leukaemia Fund & FORCE who work closely with the services including support for our patients but also our staff in the form of clinical supervision, education and Outreach services.

Experience with in the field would be beneficial but not essential, full training would be provided and encouraged to allow a successful candidate to provide holistic care with the support of access to CPDs and trust funds and tailored made education for the right individuals. We offer education including access to various external courses including degree and masters pathway which can be tailored to the successful applicant, including rotational posts to gain experience across the areas.

About You

The teams are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated registered nurses to join our friendly and supportive teams. Our focus is on ensuring that our patients receive high quality care throughout their Cancer journey. You will be expected to adopt a holistic, pro-active and dynamic approach, being responsible for the delivery of a high standard of…