Job summary

We are recruiting for a Paediatric Oncology Community Children's Nurse who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

We are offering a rare opportunity to work with Children & Young people from birth to sixteen years of age requiring Oncology nursing care in the community setting and for a variety of medical conditions.

In addition, you will receive a High-Cost Area Supplement of 5% of your basic salary, subject to a minimum payment of £1,346 and a maximum payment of £2,270 per annum pro rata.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values:Include,Respect, andImprove. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with u

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will provide care to Children and Young People in a community setting to avoid unnecessary visits to hospital as appropriate. You will be required to manage your own caseload whilst supporting the day-to-day service provision.

You will need to assess, plan, implement and evaluate a holistic programme of care for children with a generic condition working independently within the NMC Scope of Professional Practice and as a team member.

You will also contribute in further developing the Paediatric Oncology Shared Care Service in the East & North Hertfordshire NHS Teaching Trust.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this agenda

We understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen