Senior Staff Nurse - Chemotherapy Day Unit (D502)
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 09/09/2026
- Closes
- 23/09/2026
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Role summary
This Senior Staff Nurse role is in the Chemotherapy Day Unit, which operates across the main Bristol Haematology and Oncology Centre and two satellite units. The successful candidate will coordinate daily unit operations, ensure safe delivery of systemic anti-cancer treatments, and provide leadership and support to junior staff. The role involves delivering complex patient care, managing treatment toxicities, and contributing to service development. Candidates need post-registration experience in oncology/haematology or chemotherapy services and UK SACT competency.
Key responsibilities
- Coordinate the day to day running of the unit, ensuring safe delivery of SACT.
- Act as a clinical role model, providing leadership, support and supervision to junior staff.
- Promote a culture of continuous learning, quality improvement and compassionate care.
- Deliver complex patient care, manage unwell patients and treatment-related toxicities.
- Provide patient education and support, and contribute to service expansion and development.
Essential criteria
- Current NMC Registration
- UK SACT competency
- Supportive
- Respectful
- Innovative
- Collaborative
- Appropriate post registration experience in nursing and speciality
- Appropriate leadership and management experience
- Good organisation and management skills
- Ability to work effectively under pressure
- Ability to problem solve and manage difficult situations
- Flexibility, adaptability to meet needs of a changing service
- Ability to perform clinical activities specific to speciality
- Ability to lead a team
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Act as a role model/mentor/assessor
- Innovative and participates with practice and policy change
- Awareness of professional responsibilities to self and others
- Awareness of current national changes in nursing / NHS
- IT literate
Desirable criteria
- Qualification in Teaching, assessing and Mentoring
- Willingness or evidence to work to Master's level
- Experience of undertaking research or audit projects
- Evidence of commitment to research based practice or evidence of project work undertaken
- Experience as preceptor / mentorship
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Staff Nurse - Chemotherapy Day Unit (D502)
The closing date is 23 September 2026
Job summary
The main chemotherapy unit plus our teenage/young adult area are based within the Bristol Haematology and Oncology Centre. We also offer a community based service at two satellite centres in Bristol - one in South Bristol Community Hospital in Hengrove, and the other in Concord Medical Centre in Bradley Stoke. Staff will be expected to work between the main unit at BHOC and at least one of the satellite units.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, compassionate and experienced candidate to join our team as a Band 6 Senior Staff Nurse. We open 8am-6pm, Monday to Friday across all of our sites. This is an exciting opportunity to provide high-quality, patient-centred care to individuals receiving systemic anti-cancer treatments in a busy outpatient setting.
Main duties of the job
As a senior member of the nursing team you will be responsible for coordinating the day to day running of the unit, ensuring the safe delivery of SACT in line with national and local policies. You will act as a clinical role model, providing leadership, support and supervision to junior staff while promoting a culture of continuous learning, quality improvement and compassionate care. You will deliver complex patient care, manage unwell patients and treatment-re
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