Staff Nurse; Band 6 - Smithers Ward

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is one of the leading cancer centres in the world and has an international reputation for the care and treatment it provides. The Royal Marsden serves a local, regional, national, and international population within three hospital sites in London and Surrey and Sutton. The Senior staff nurse on Smithers ward is based within the Surrey site.

Smithers ward is a 16 bedded Acute inpatient oncology ward, with a 4 bed surgical day unit and 3 bed inpatient radiation treatment suite attached. Within the ward we care for patients undergoing surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, along with patients requiring complex symptom control. We focus on holistic care, understanding the psychological impact of an individuals cancer diagnosis. We are looking for a knowledgeable oncology nurse who is caring, compassionate and works well under pressure, has good time management skills, and is dedicated to deliver high quality patient focussed care.

• To coordinate and supervise a shift, communicating effectively with members of a multidisciplinary team to deliver high quality, evidence-led care to patients.
• To exercise clinical judgment and decision making about patient needs in terms of long term goals or plans.
• To participate fully in the day to day organization and running of clinical trials including the recruitment, education and monitoring of patients entering a clinical trial and liaison as required with trial sponsors.
• To complete the first level assessment of patients with cancer and their families to gain an understanding of their physiological, psycho-social, spiritual and cultural needs and to develop a positive, realistic and supportive attitude to ensure that these needs are met.
• To counter check patients’ vital signs, blood results, patient body surface area, chemotherapy prescription and consent before administration of treatment.
• To educate patients on their treatment such as indications and side effects.
• To ensure necessary medication and follow up appointments are obtained.
• To plan, document, deliver and evaluate care plans from admission through to discharge / transfer discussing this with the patient, their family and multi-disciplinary teams and to alert the Sister/Charge Nurse of any changes.
• To set goals for each of the identified nursing issues and encourage / teach other nursing staff to do the same.
• To help the patient achieve set goals through care planning.

We offer a stimulating and dynamic working environment, a wide range of staff benefits, learning and development opportunities and clear career pathways. There are opportunities to work flexibly across a range of areas and specialities and we welcome flexible working requests from point of hire to support employees work life balance.

For further information please refer to the job description and personal specification.

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