Senior Chemotherapy Staff Nurse

Job overview

Senior Chemotherapy Staff Nurse, Marina Dalglish Centre (CCC), Aintree University Hospital

Part Time,  permanent contract

Working Pattern: 3 days a week, 28.5 hours, Monday - Friday.

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s leading providers of non-surgical cancer treatment, caring for a population of 2.4 million people across Cheshire & Merseyside, North Wales, the Isle of Man and parts of Lancashire.

Our flagship specialist cancer hospital in Liverpool opened in June 2020, supported by our hospital on the Clatterbridge Health Park in Wirral providing outpatient cancer treatment and supportive care, and our radiotherapy treatment centre on the Aintree Hospital site.  Together, working across three sites and operating specialist chemotherapy clinics in four of Merseyside’s district hospitals, we are able to deliver a comprehensive range of inpatient care, advanced radiotherapy, chemotherapy and other systemic anti-cancer therapies including gene therapies and immunotherapies. We also deliver a pioneering Treatment at Home and Work service; are the only facility in the UK providing low-energy proton beam therapy to treat rare eye cancers and host the region’s Teenage and Young Adult Unit.

Working with leading experts from The University of Liverpool and the Cancer Research UK Liverpool Cancer Trials Unit we strive to stay at the forefront of novel treatments and techniques to deliver more effective and personalised treatments than ever before.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for an enthusiastic Band 6 SACT trained nurse to work at our CCC - Aintree site at the Marina Dalglish Centre.  They must be highly motivated and willing to lead and support a team. They need to be experienced in administering chemotherapy and within the oncology field.

As we deliver treatments in sector hubs and clinics across the Wirral and Liverpool, there will an element of cross cover required during training and once training has been completed.  This will include travelling to all of our peripheral sites:

• CCC Liverpool
• CCC Aintree
• CCC Ormskirk
• CCC Wirral
• CCC Halton
• CCC Private Unit Wirral
• CCC Private Unit Liverpool
• Clatterbridge in the Community

We’re here to deliver the best cancer care to the people we serve and we’re looking for applications from those who share that commitment and our values: Putting people first; Achieving excellence; Passionate about what we do; Always improving our care; and Looking to the future.

If you are interested in joining our Team and support the Trust with our vision to provide the best cancer care, please apply online.

The successful applicant will support the team in a leadership role.  They are required to be fully SACT trained with relevant SACT experience.  They will support and educate junior staff and participate with educating and assessing.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details about this exciting role on offer at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre.