Registered Nurse - Combined Day Unit (Chemotherapy)
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 21/09/2026
- Closes
- 04/10/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This is a Band 5 Registered Nurse position in the Combined Day Unit (Chemotherapy) at Queens Hospital Burton. The role involves delivering high-quality, effective, and compassionate nursing care to cancer patients, specifically in systemic anti-cancer treatments, supportive therapies, and blood product administration. The unit is undergoing significant positive changes, offering professional growth and challenges. The ideal candidate will be a compassionate and motivated nurse eager to improve the outpatient experience in cancer care.
Essential criteria
- NMC registration & Revalidation requirements
- Experience & Knowledge
- significant period of post registration experience required
Desirable criteria
- Able to mentor, support and develop staff
- Skills and ability
- Ability to prioritise own work activity.
- Able to work flexibly
- Developed physical skills to ensure accuracy and dexterity required for clinical procedures
- Communications and interpersonal skills
- Communicates condition related, sensitive information to patients, public, and staff.
- Understands and overcomes barriers to communication and acceptance
- Accurately maintains patient records, maintains contemporaneous records
- Adheres to information governance standards
- Motivation, reassurance, facilitation and influencing skills
- Deal with distressing and emotional circumstances relating to patients, public and staff
- Education, training and qualifications CPD Requirements
- NMC registration & Revalidation requirements
- Experience & Knowledge
- significant period of post registration experience required
- Able to mentor, support and develop staff
- Skills and ability
- Ability to prioritise own work activity.
- Able to work flexibly
- Developed physical skills to ensure accuracy and dexterity required for clinical procedures
- Communications and interpersonal skills
- Communicates condition related, sensitive information to patients, public, and staff.
- Understands and overcomes barriers to communication and acceptance
- Accurately maintains patient records, maintains contemporaneous records
- Adheres to information governance standards
- Motivation, reassurance, facilitation and influencing skills
- Deal with distressing and emotional circumstances relating to patients, public and staff
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £32,073 – £39,043 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
Registered Nurse - Combined Day Unit (Chemotherapy)
The closing date is 04 October 2026
Job summary
We currently have a chemotherapy Band 5 nurse post available at the Queens Hospital Burton
This year, our Cancer Business Unit has undergone significant investment to support the next stage of the workforce plan. These roles are part of a number of new roles the Trust are recruiting to in order to deliver outstanding care to our cancer patients and shape the future of our Cancer Services.
Would you like to become a highly skilled Chemotherapy Nurse? With no nights or weekend working? If so, you will be on the path of career-long learning that offers great challenges, rewards and professional growth within our Combined Day Unit (CDU).
The role is responsible and accountable for the delivery of high quality, effective, and compassionate nursing care. This will be in line with local, Trust wide and national policies, procedures, values and behaviours.
Candidates who have applied for this vacancy within the last 3 months and were unsuccessful at any stage of the recruitment process should not reapply unless you can demonstrate additional relevant skills, qualifications or experience acquired since your previous application.
Main duties of the job
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