Preceptee Staff Nurse Interview Day - Blood, Inflammation and Cancer

Blood, Inflammation and Cancer Directorate - Interview Day for Third Year Adult Nursing Students

We are excited to be recruiting into our Blood, Inflammation and Cancer Directorate. We have 2 inpatient wards, 2 Oncology/Haematology day case units, Acute Oncology/Acute Haematology, Immunology and Allergy, Rheumatology and End of Life Care.

For the first time we would like to offer preceptees a rotational post over a 2-year period, this would include placements in at least 4 of the above areas. This is an exciting opportunity to gain experience about a variety of specialities within our directorate, whilst also developing your skills and knowledge. Within this period, you would be expected to complete the preceptee programme and also have the opportunity to complete your SACT training, Fundamentals in Cancer Care module and Communication Skills.

You will have allocated study time throughout your rotation, and regular group support. As this role will consist of a mix of inpatient and outpatient areas, you will need to be flexible, and be prepared to work days, nights, and weekends shifts on the inpatient units, and then Mon-Friday shifts for the outpatient units.

If you are interested then we would love to hear from you. Please contact Rachel Bryce, Jane Ransome or Sam Rowe.

Under the direction of the Nurse-in-Charge you will co-ordinate and deliver effective quality nursing care by assessing the needs, planning, implementing & evaluating the care for a group of patients.

Work as part of a multidisciplinary team

Following a period of Preceptorship take responsibility for the supervision of Health Care Assistants and other learners.

To work within the NMC code of practice and professional guideline.

Working for our organisation

With an amazing quality of life, stunning waterfront location, buzzing city centre, fascinating maritime history, there is quite simply nowhere better to live, work and play than Plymouth. Plymouth is an ambitious city with huge growth potential and exciting major changes ahead. We have already seen the growth of the university, the redevelopment of Royal William Yard and Millbay, one of the UK’s top 50 regeneration projects. The Plymouth and South West Peninsula City Deal is a groundbreaking deal with the government to deliver economic growth in the south west, which could see £296 million pumped into the region over the next 15 years, its exciting times ahead.

Providing and delivering a high standard of nursing care by initiating and co-ordinating the assessment, planning, implementing and evaluating of individual patients needs based on evidence. This includes

all aspects of care from admission to discharge including complex discharge planning where there is a need to liaise with other agencies and developing of care packages

Reporting and documenting all relevant nursing/patient needs, communicating changes with other health care professionals in the multi-disciplinary team with ongoing responsibility for patient care as

they occur.

Engaging and interacting with carers and family, encouraging them to be actively involved in patients care planning as outlined in ward / unit philosophy.

Promoting and delivering health education within the clinical area and advise patient’s family and/or significant others in health promotion issues.

Demonstrating and undertaking evidence-based practice playing an active part in the introduction of this evidence to improve patient centred care.

PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL COMMUNICATION WILL BE ELECTRONIC, PLEASE CHECK YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT REGULARLY INCLUDING YOUR JUNK FOLDER.

If you need support with the online application process or require reasonable adjustments with the application and/or interview process please contact the Recruiting Manager for this post.

We recognise that work life balance is important for our colleagues and so we invite requests from applicants about less than full time/flexible working for our advertised roles. We recommend contacting the manager of the role prior to applying and we commit to giving requests full consideration.

We welcome and encourage applicants who identify with all protected characteristics to apply for our roles. We believe that diversity strengthens our teams and improves our patients' experience. At UHP we aim to create an inclusive workplace and hospital where everyone feels they belong and included.

It is sometimes necessary to close vacancies before the closing date. If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted.

Providing false information is an offence & could result in the application being rejected or summary dismissal/police action if an applicant is successful.

Please note that if you are successful in your application & accept the position you agree that the Staff Health and Wellbeing Department can access your health records from your current/previous employer in order to check the status of your inoculations & screening tests. This is an automated process & the information will only be used for these purposes prior to your taking up the position with us.

University Hospitals Plymouth has a commitment to sourcing candidates directly and as such we do not accept speculative CVs from agencies.

We do, however, work with a defined list of preferred HTE Framework suppliers who may be invited to support us in sourcing candidates for particular roles.

In line with our preferred supplier list, we only pay agency fees where we have a signed agreement in place and an agency has been instructed by a member of the Trust’s Medical Workforce team.

We do not pay agency fees where speculative and unsolicited CVs are submitted to the Trust or Trust employees by any other means than the official route above. Where this is not observed the Trust reserves the right to contact these candidates directly and initiate discussions without payment of any agency fee.

Any candidate details (whether written or spoken) or CVs that are referred directly will not constitute an introduction. The Trust will under no circumstances be responsible for any recruitment fees in relation to these contacts.

Submission of any unsolicited CVs, candidate’s details and/or proposals to the Trust will not be considered further and will be deemed evidence of full and unlimited acceptance of this Agency Protocol.

In order to establish and maintain good working relationships with the Trust’s agency suppliers, we ask that this Protocol is adhered to and thank you for your co-operation.

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