Job overview

Agenda for Change Band 7: £49,387   £56,515 per annum

Full-time (37.5 hours)

Permanent Position

We are recruiting for Acute Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist who wishes to join #TeamIOWNHS. You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive quality and compassionate care and work with us to ensure the Trust continues its journey towards “working together, Improving together".

This is an exciting opportunity for an Advanced Practitioner to take on this Specialist Nursing role working as a key member in continuing developing our services for Acute Oncology. The post requires vision, innovation and the ability to work across professional boundaries, underpinned by a real desire to provide the highest standards of patient care.

Main duties of the job

This post will work in collaboration with, and autonomously as part of the acute oncology team to help develop and deliver services across organisational, professional and geographical boundaries.

This role will work close with key areas of the Trust including A&E, MAAU, and the Chemotherapy Unit. Whilst additionally forging close working relationships with the visiting consultants from the Cancer Centre’s, the medical and cancer teams, and the Specialist Palliative Care team.

It is essential that you possess a high level of up-to-date relevant clinical knowledge and experience in Haematology, medicine, oncology or specialist palliative care with evidence of ongoing continuous professional development. 

If you have not attained the aforementioned clinical knowledge, consideration will be given to appointing at a band 6 with progression to band 7 on appraisal and completion of relevant educational courses.

You must be highly motivated with strong leadership and excellent communication skills. 

Working for our organisation

Our 2024-2029 strategy Working Together, Improving Together sets out to ensure that we continue to be a provider of excellent and compassionate care. As part of this strategy, we want our staff to feel proud to work for our organisation. Over the next 5 years, we will prioritise and integrate our CARE values into our culture. We are committed to attracting staff who share our values and behaviours while addressing those who do not. Only by making ‘Our NHS People Promise’ a reality, will Isle of Wight NHS Trust become the best place to work. We are part of one team that brings out the very best in each other. We aim to create an environment that promotes service improvement and innovation by encouraging staff to innovate care as close to our patients as possible. We firmly believe in the power of acknowledging and learning from our mistakes while taking the time to celebrate our successes. This culture of continuous improvement and recognition is what sets us apart. Additionally, we plan to grow our own workforce through training, education, and innovation. We are dedicated to developing workforce plans and systems that are suitable for the future. We will revolutionise how we engage with and listen to our people, and we will support their learning, education, and development to deliver the highest standards of care, both now and in the future.