Macmillan Renton Unit is an outpatient unit, providing services such as Haematology, Oncology. Gynaecology, Breast Clinics, Urology and Systemic Anti Cancer Treatment (SACT) to patients within Herefordshire and surrounding areas.
We are a satellite site for Cheltenham hospital, which means we are able to treat our patients closer to their homes.
The hours worked are flexible by negotiation, agreed to suit the service and the applicant to ensure a good work life balance.
Due to additional investment to future proof the systemic anti-cancer treatment staff nurse team in the oncology treatment unit and internal progression, there is opportunity for a number of band 5 nurses to permanently join our team. We have various hours that could be available to the right candidate. We will invest in the successful candidates to complete their SACT administration competencies, this will be through further education either online or through Cheltenham (Gloucester University). We will support and honour set study days to complete this course.
We would also welcome those already with their SACT competencies to please apply.
This is a rewarding and exciting role, you will need to have excellent leadership and management, communication, organisational skills and the ability to foster good working relationships, offering care in a professional manner.
For more information please contact Ruth Morgan extension 5619. Or email
This is a well-supported role and you will need to have sound leadership skills, excellent communication and organisational skills and the ability to foster good working relationships, offering care in a professional manner.
The ideal candidate will be a progressive thinking nurse with the ability to work autonomously with support from the multi-disciplinary team.
You will be able to evidence proven consolidation of your post registration practice, ideally in an area that you can demonstrate a commitment to further development and relevant transferable skills.
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT, the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.
More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."
Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.
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