Registered Nurse - Radiotherapy Outpatients | East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

We are recruiting for a Registered Nurse Radiotherapy Outpatients who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients. Our outpatient department is across three separate areas with a busy procedure room undertaking a range of clinical duties. There is also opportunity to support other areas across the cancer centre, Radiotherapy, Acute Oncology Service and wards. The outpatients department is open Monday to Friday. Mount Vernon Cancer Centre is a well-respected, non-surgical cancer centre based in Northwood in Middlesex - providing chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and immunotherapy treatments to over 5,000 patients a year. It is currently run by East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust (ENHT) and consistently receives positive patient feedback. In addition, you will receive a High-Cost Area Supplement of 15% of your basic salary, subject to a minimum payment of £4,870and a maximum payment of £6,137 per annum pro rata. At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us. You will be responsible for delivering a high standard of care to all patients and visitors within the Mount Vernon Cancer Centre. Taking an active role in improving the patient experience and working towards achieving excellence in patient focused initiatives such as infection control and prevention, patient safety, privacy and dignity and the productive ward. Supporting and advising regarding specific treatments or nursing practices and signpost on where required. You will be responsible for co-coordinating overall care in the appropriate clinical area in the absence of the Team Leader or Ward Manager. Actively create a learning environment and support education and training of qualified and unqualified staff and to participate in the development of nursing practice. To be aware of QUIPP initiatives/resource management and to consider cost effectiveness throughout practice. To have a comprehensive understanding of risk management and governance issues.

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & 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; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda. We understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know. We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen