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Job requirements
Essential
10 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Experience of caring for patients with cancer and those receiving cancer treatment
- Experience
Evidence of leadership
- Experience
Significant post registration experience
- Qualifications
Registered Nurse (valid NMC)
- Further training
Core and relevant SACT competences
- Further training
Competent in IV drug administration, phlebotomy, cannulation, CVADs
- Special Skills/Aptitudes
Able to mange highly complex or sensitive situations with patients, relatives and staff
- Special Skills/Aptitudes
Ability to participate in education of others
- Special Skills/Aptitudes
Evidence of mulit-disciplinary team working
- Special Skills/Aptitudes
Highly motivated, enthusiastic team player
Desirable
5 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Experience of providing telephone advice and/or triage services
- Experience
Management experience
- Qualifications
Post registration study and Qualification eg oncology, symptom managment
- Qualifications
To have completed the national PEAP programme for practice supervisors or equivalent teaching and assessing qualification for those with ENB998 or equivalent
- Further training
Ability to record ECG
Job overview
An exciting employment opportunity has arisen as part of a strategic transformation in cancer services.
The assessment sister/charge nurse will work in the Weston Park Cancer Centre assessment service, including telephone triage and advice and directly admit patients to Weston Park.
They will provide support to the phone triage nurses on a day to day basis and manage complex calls.
There are 3 posts on this vacancy.
Main duties of the job
The assessment sister/charge nurse will undertake clinical assessments for cancer patients who attend Weston Park as non-elective admissions, order and carry out investigations and initiate treatments within defined competence and protocols in collaboration with the senior clinicians and multi-professional team.
They will provide site management, leadership and clinical support to the nursing team within Weston Park at night in conjunction with the hospital at night team and duty matron.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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This advert is for Assessment Sister/Charge Nurse with Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Sheffield, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Charge nurse role. The advertised salary is £39,959 - £48,117 pa/pro rata for part time staff. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 27 Oct 2026.
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