Unit manager, Chartwell Haematology Units

Main area Speciality Medicine Grade NHS AfC:
Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job
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Employer King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Princess Royal university Hospital Town Orpington Kent Salary £55,524 - £62,652 per annum, including HCA Salary period Yearly Closing 02/11/2026 23:59

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c £2.1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 14,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.

We encourage all our staff to have a healthy work/life balance. In doing so, you can apply for flexible working from the beginning of your employment. We offer a range of options which are designed to suit different circumstances and priorities in line with service requirements.

The Unit Manager will provide visible operational, professional and clinical leadership for the Chartwell Chemotherapy Day Unit and Haematology Day Unit at PRUH and South Sites. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring the safe, effective, evidence-based and patient-centred delivery of Systemic Anti Cancer Therapy (SACT), supportive treatments, blood products, haematology therapies and associated clinical procedures.

The post holder will provide day-to-day leadership to nursing, healthcare support workers and administrative teams, ensuring safe staffing, effective patient flow, appropriate capacity utilisation, high quality care, regulatory compliance and achievement of service objectives.

The role includes responsibility for workforce development, clinical governance oversight, risk management, patient experience, quality improvement, and service performance.

Working collaboratively with oncology, haematology, pharmacy, Acute Oncology Service, CNS, ACP, site management and operational teams, the Unit Manager will support the delivery of national cancer standards, Trust priorities, UKONS/SACT standards, financial sustainability and continuous service improvement across PRUH and South Sites.

Clinical Practice

• Provide visible clinical leadership and act as an expert resource for staff, patients and the multidisciplinary team within the Chemotherapy Day Unit and Haematology Day Unit.
• Ensure the safe delivery of SACT and supportive treatments in accordance with Trust policies, UKONS guidance, network-agreed pathways and relevant national standards. Provide visible, compassionate and inclusive leadership to nursing, healthcare support workers and administrative teams across both units.
• Work collaboratively with Practice Development Nurses, Haematology Practice Development teams and clinical educators to ensure staff receive appropriate induction, education, supervision and competency assessment.
• Support delivery and maintenance of UKONS SACT Passport requirements and relevant haematology and AOS competency frameworks.

Lead the development, implementation and monitoring of audit, service evaluation and quality improvement programmes across the Chemotherapy Day Unit and Haematology Day Unit. network recommendations and emerging best practice within SACT and Haematology services. Lead, coach and manage the performance of the team in line with good people management practices. Ensuring excellence is recognised and underperformance is addressed.

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