Band 8a Acute Oncology Lead Nurse

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and dynamic person to be a pivotal part of Cancer Services during a time of expansion and change. We are looking for a driven, forward thinking nurse with experience of working within Cancer at B7 level. The successful candidate will be experienced in leading and influencing others, driving change and delivering high standards of care to the cancer patient with a Masters or working towards within in Advanced clinical Practice. The acute oncology team manage the 24/7 triage line, providing expert advise and opinion to our cancer patients and inpatients whilst supporting admission avoidance within our sunflower suite. Therefore the ideal candidate must be be able to work across site and be flexible to the needs of service as well as work alongside the senior leadership with the intended expansion of the team and 7 day working., The Acute Oncology Lead Nurse is an integral member of the Division. They will work closely with the Medical Lead for Acute Oncology and the Matron to ensure all clinical, quality, safety and workforce targets are agreed and delivered upon in the AOS team.

This role has a highly autonomous clinical component providing strong visible leadership, support for the AOS team and all cancer nurses across the organisation. The Lead AOS nurse will exercise independent judgement to assess, investigate, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate the clinical care and management of oncology patients. The Acute Oncology Lead Nurse bridges the professional and clinical boundaries between nursing and medical care to provide a responsive patient focused service.

We're an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with. We're no longer in special measures; we've opened two new theatres at our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal.

We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen's and get rid of corridor care.

Our patients are benefitting from our Women's Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub in Hornchurch.

These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and are providing an extra 88,000 scans a year.

The majority of our 8,000 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

We're looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients.