# Staff Nurse Cancer Care - Hamwic House > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/staff-nurse-cancer-care-hamwic-house/c2f1bef5-62c3-4385-851f-77a8bd3c281c - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/staff-nurse-cancer-care-hamwic-house/c2f1bef5-62c3-4385-851f-77a8bd3c281c.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Southampton - **Region:** South East - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Nurse (adult and children) - **Grade:** Band 5 - **Salary:** £32,073 - £39,043 Per annum - Pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-18T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-04T14:42:38.226Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8060030 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8060030?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.uhs.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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 ## Job Details 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. ## Job Description 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. ## 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 ## Person Specification ### Trust Values **Essential** - Patient First - Working Together - Always Improving ### Qualifications, knowledge and experience **Essential** - Qualified Nurse (Degree/Diploma) - Registered nurse on appropriate part of the register - Knowledge of current issues within acute Health Service - Understanding of personal accountability - Knowledge of own role within the team - Provide evidence of teaching and supporting learners in practice in the role of practice supervisor - Awareness of evidence-based practice - Provide evidence of supporting colleagues to promote effective learning in practice - Awareness of responsibilities for management of infection control - Evidence of on-going personal development - Able to use initiative **Desirable** - Evidence of recent study - Previous experience/qualification in relevant specialty - Teaching experience ## Documents - [job description & person specification (pdf, 296.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10350216) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.