Senior Staff Nurse - Haematology Day Unit

Full job description
The Haematology Day Unit is a nurse led service offers apheresis, supportive care and venesection. We care for patients with haematological cancers, sickle cell disease and other haematology diseases.

Our aim is to provide expert care to allow patients to avoid hospital admissions and to manage their disease in an ambulatory setting.

We are seeking experienced senior nurses to join our team as a Senior Staff Nurse on the Haematology Day Unit.

The individuals should be motivated, have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and an ability to organize, prioritize and co-ordinate within a challenging and fast paced environment. You will be supported by a strong expert team, including the Ward Sister, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Advanced Nurse Practitioners and the inpatient Matron team.

We are currently open Monday to Friday 08.00 - 20.00. Shift patterns at present are 9.5 hour shifts per week. We do not currently work weekends or bank holidays regularly, however occasionally work out of hours to support the service and eventually we may aim for weekends to be permanent in the future.

Closing date: 21/07/25

We are seeking experienced and motivated nurses to join our team on the Haematology Day Unit. We are seeking nurses that are eager to develop their clinical skills and competence and want to be future leaders within haematology nursing in an ambulatory setting.

You will have the opportunity to further develop and enhance your skills within a haemato-oncology setting with the support and training necessary.

We are seeking candidates with a strong desire to deliver the best individualized care to patients living with haematological diseases by working as an effective part of the nursing and wider team.

The successful candidate will need to have at least 1 year experience in haematology and acute setting and will be committed to developing their skills, knowledge, and leadership in a fast paced setting.

Opportunities for the right candidate include developing skills in apheresis, expert cannulation assisted by ultrasound, femoral line placement, and bone marrow biopsy skills. Informal visits/phone calls are strongly recommended.

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

You will have the opportunity to further develop and enhance your skills within a haemato-oncology setting with the support and training necessary. You will have the opportunity to work alongside experienced nurses and specialists to develop and gain a plethora of skills to enhance your nursing ability. We have a supportive culture, whereby we encourage each other to strive to be the best within our daily practice, and our feedback as a team reflects this.

Independently manage a group of patients within the specialty whilst
working as part of the multidisciplinary team, delivering individualised and
personalised direct patient care.

Demonstrate appropriate practice and specialist advice in the assessment,
planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care. This includes
history taking, physical examination and the requesting of agreed
diagnostic procedures/clinical investigations.

Responsible for the correct administration of prescribed medication
including transfusion of blood and blood products.

Be responsible for assessing and recognising emergencies in the
speciality. To interpret information and take appropriate action and to lead
others to do the same.

Act as an advocate for patients within the department, to ensure a patient
orientated approach to the delivery of care and to meet standards within
the NHS Plan and other relevant guidelines.

Ensure that patients’ receive high quality clinical care and a good patient
experience, having regard for their customs, religious beliefs and
doctrines.

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