Nurse Team Manager - Lister Macmillan Cancer Centre

We are recruiting for a Nurse Team Managerwho shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients. The Lister Macmillan Cancer Centre is an 18 chaired outpatient facility where we specialise in the safe and compassionate administration of chemotherapy, biological therapies, immunotherapies and other anti-cancer treatments. We see a broad group of patients undergoing both curative and palliative treatments for a range of different cancer types, You would be joining an experienced and supportive team and have the opportunity to work with a diverse range of professionals including chemotherapy nurses, advanced nurse practitioners and medical oncology consultants. The successful applicant will need to be a registered nurse with an interest in oncology and experience in the administration of systemic anti-cancer therapies to work in our friendly cancer day unit. Experience in a nursing leadership role will also be required. Experience of chemotherapy administration, venepuncture and cannulation and leadership is essential for this Nurse Team Manager post.

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now. We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda. We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

This is a full-time position with a shift pattern of 3 shifts 8:00am - 6:00pm and1 shift 8:00am - 5:30pm. Demonstrable chemotherapy experience essential. In addition, you will receive a High-Cost Area Supplement of 15% of your basic salary, subject to a minimum payment of £4,870 and a maximum payment of £6,137per annum pro rata. At the heart of everything we do are our core values:Include,Respect, andImprove. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.