Staff Nurse Cancer Care - Hamwic House

Job overview

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.

Please see below for detailed job description of the role.

Main duties of the job

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated Nurse to join the team at Hamwic House (the oncology day unit). Hamwic House unit was purpose-built at University Hospital Southampton and provides patients with outpatient cancer services such a systemic anti-cancer therapies (SACT) including supportive infusions and blood products, outpatient clinics, phlebotomy, PICC line insertions, venesections and pentamidine nebulisers.

Hamwic House’s treatment area is open Monday to Friday from 8am to 8pm and we are open on Sunday for blood tests and CVAD care. As well as treating patients at UHS we send a team of nurses to Lymington hospital twice a week to offer treatments closer to patients home through an outreach service.

Our goal is to provide all our patients who are undergoing cancer diagnosis, treatment and ongoing care with gold standard support and compassion and hope to grow our wonderful team of nurses and healthcare assistants who provide that care.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

At Hamwic house you will be responsible for caring for adult patients who are mostly undergoing anti-cancer treatments such as chemotherapy and immunotherapy in a day unit setting.  To become competent in safely delivering SACT with an understanding you will attend a SACT study day provided by UHS. Through this course you will be supported by a ward mentor as well as the SACT educator team. Additional skills required will be cannulation and venesection, care of CVADS, NG tube insertion and scalp cooling. The unit supports patients by administering therapies within the hospital setting as well as providing an outreach service to treat patients closer to home.  This service takes place at Lymington hospital, with scope to develop this service further, meeting the NHS England target of treating patients closer to home.  You will become a highly skilled professional leading to opportunities for future career development from ANP, CNS and managerial roles.

Your role will include

• Administrating anti-cancer treatments •    Administering supportive medications and blood products. •    Working closely with the MDT in providing a patient centred approach for all patients          attending the unit. •    To work flexibly within the Hamwic nursing team to support all services. •    Recognise deterioration in patients’ condition, including neutropenic patients and escalating          appropriately. •    You will be encouraged to develop your knowledge and skills in cancer nursing by attending          oncology specific study days and courses.  •    Maintaining IV skills including cannulation and phlebotomy