Senior Nurse

At GenesisCare, we're committed to delivering exceptional cancer care. As a Senior Nurse - Outpatients Specialist, you'll play a pivotal role in our state-of-the-art cancer care centre, working closely with our dedicated team to provide world-class care to patients.

The Role:

As a Senior Nurse - Outpatients Specialist, you'll be responsible for delivering high-quality nursing services to patients within the outpatient unit. This includes providing specialist nursing advice and support, assisting with diagnostic procedures, and chaperoning consultants with minor procedures.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Provide specialist nursing advice and support to patients, their families, and other healthcare professionals.
• Assist with diagnostic procedures within the diagnostic clinics.
• Chaperone and assist consultants with minor procedures.
• Organise and support outpatient clinics.
• Liaise closely with all GenesisCare consultants.
• Carry out nursing procedures such as wound dressings, removal of sutures, ECGs, blood tests, etc.
• Implement and maintain the highest levels of evidence-based nursing practice.
• Work within the GenesisCare policies.
• Practice immediate life support to facilitate rapid stabilisation and the appropriate on-going management of patients who develop acute treatment complications.
• Assist in the development and audit of assessment tools that will ensure an appropriate level of nursing intervention so that patients who present with the most complex needs are referred to the appropriate specialist, including patients and families who require more in-depth support and counselling.
• Ensure all care is given in accordance with agreed protocols.
• Work in line with and contribute to local delivery of national care standards.
• Work alongside the radiographers, the chemotherapy team, and outpatient staff to ensure holistic care is maintained throughout the GenesisCare centre and rotate to support other departments where required.
• Ensure all patients are fully informed of the risks and benefits of proposed procedures/treatments, contributing to the process of securing informed consent.
• Produce and provide all patients with relevant and accessible written information regarding their treatment.
• Supervise and participate in the delivery of programmes of education and training per the identified needs of clients, carers, and other involved in their care.
• Lead on the specific areas of development of nursing practice within the team.
• To provide expert knowledge and advice in own specialist area, ensuring maintenance of clinical excellence underpinned by evidence-based practice.
• Participate in clinical audit within the outpatient service, raising the profile and enhancing the contribution of nursing to patient care and informing business and service development plans.
• Utilise up-to-date research/evidence to deliver patient care and to disseminate this knowledge to all members of the multi-professional team.
• Fulfil the role of mentor, providing peer support to staff working within the outpatient services.
• Take responsibility for competency assessment or members of staff providing mentorship to junior staff.
• Comply with measures to actively manage and reduce risk to patients, ensuring the formal reporting and recording of adverse incidents.
• Ensure that confidentiality of information is adhered to and NMC standards for 'record keeping' are met.
• Participate in the evaluation of the service in terms of clinical effectiveness, clinical excellence, and cost benefit.
• Identify areas of practice that require review or adaptation to meet the changing needs of patients.
• Achieve a range of clinical competencies as required to fulfil the role.
• Utilise up-to-date research/evidence to deliver patient care and to disseminate this knowledge to all members of the multi-professional team.
• Maintain your own continuing personal and professional development in accordance with NMC requirements, GenesisCare expectations, and business objectives.
• Adhere to the NMC code of professional conduct working within and accepting responsibility for maintaining agreed levels of competence.
• Act in accordance with the NMC code of professional conduct for nurses, midwives, and health visitors and scope of practice and be accountable for his/her actions at all times.
• Work out of hours to ensure that breakdowns or crises are resolved with minimum impact to service and treatments from time to time.
• Work across sites when necessary to support other GenesisCare Breast Care services.

What You'll Have:

Experience and Skills:

• Team player
• Excellent communication and organisational skills
• Relevant clinical experience working within Outpatients
• Evidence of service development/improvements to current services
• Experience of working with cancer patients
• Experience in outpatients/diagnostic procedures
• Flexibility to meet the needs of the service (e.g. shift work)
• Ability to work accurately and reliably under pressure
• Ability to make decisions, organise and prioritise

Qualifications and Knowledge:

• Registered nurse with a valid NMC Pin
• Phlebotomy
• ILS trained
• Evidence of post-registration professional development – Desirable
• Have undertaken an advanced communications course – Desirable
• Have undertaken a counselling course – Desirable
• Hold a teaching qualification – Desirable
• Ability to use common software packages and databases - Essential

Why Choose GenesisCare:

Discover what's in store for you when you join the GenesisCare UK team:

• Shape your work-life balance with 25 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays, and the option to buy more or sell back annual leave.
• Prioritise your well-being with complimentary private medical and dental coverage, access to Employee Assistance Program, and Income Protection.
• Access our world-class radiotherapy - free to you and your immediate family, if required.
• Secure your future with a competitive Company Contributory Pension Scheme.
• Nurture your mental health and well-being through our well-being community, with access to Babylon Health and Headspace Wellbeing.
• Enjoy hassle-free commutes with free parking at most of our centres.
• Treat yourself with exclusive retail discounts.

Who We Are:

GenesisCare UK is the leading provider of private oncology services in the UK, pioneering a transformation in cancer care. Through innovative, personalised treatments, we are enhancing patient quality of life, life expectancy, and overall survival rates.

We are a team of over 600 highly trained physicians, healthcare professionals, and support staff operating 14 specialist outpatient cancer centres across the UK. Our aim is to provide world-class care, offering the latest proven treatments including advanced diagnostics, medical oncology, radiotherapy, and Theranostics.

We take an integrated approach to cancer care, focusing on treating the whole patient, not just the cancer. Our personalised treatment programmes include wellbeing services in partnership with Penny Brohn UK and exercise medicine, proven to enhance patient outcomes.

Collaborating with universities and leading clinicians globally, we're dedicated to researching and developing improved cancer treatments. Our UK clinical trials programme aims to broaden access to new therapies.

We're passionate about innovation and working together to make great things happen. We make significant investments in our employees to provide opportunities for growth, learning, and development within their roles.

Join GenesisCare UK and shape your future, while shaping the future of cancer care.

GenesisCare is an Equal Opportunity Employer.