Registered Nurse - Chemotherapy

Site:
Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, Town Northwood Salary: £32,073 - £39,043 per annum plus 15% High Cost Area Supplement Salary period:
Yearly Closing date: 04/06/2026 23:59

Here at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Our mission: Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities

Our vision to 2030: To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service

Our values - we want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do. Our values are:

Include We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.

Respect We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.

Improve We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.

We are recruiting for a Registered Nurse – Chemotherapy who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

The Chemotherapy Day Unit treats patients with a wide variety of systemic anti-cancer therapies. The unit is currently open Monday to Friday, and we work closely with other units one on site and one at our acute trust site.

Mount Vernon is one of the largest single site Cancer Centres in England and is an innovative and exciting place to work. We are internationally renowned for radiotherapy, chemotherapy, patient support services and research and therefore, you will be joining a cancer centre offering significant career development opportunities.

In addition, you will receive a High‑Cost Area Supplement of 15% of your basic salary, subject to a minimum payment of £4,552 and a maximum payment of £5,735 per annum pro rata.

The Chemotherapy Registered Nurse will undertake and assist in the safe administration of cytotoxic chemotherapy, immunotherapy and monoclonal anti‑bodies within the Oncology patient group, whilst also providing on‑going support to patients and their carers.

You will ensure that nursing care within the chemotherapy unit is a high standard and in accordance with hospital policies, procedures and standards and adheres to the unit's philosophy.

The post holder will provide a high quality service of care to patients and significant others and to promote a good learning environment. To support the Senior Nurse for Chemotherapy Services in all aspects of that role, as well as the other members of the team.

The successful candidate would ideally have some experience of working within oncology and delivery of systemic anti‑cancer treatment, however full training will be provided to the right person.

You will contribute to the improvement of services.

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide and 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

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 ambitious agenda.

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

• Active, current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (RN1)
• BSc / MSc
• SACT accredited course or competencies
• In possession of Oncology or Haematology Care modules
• Counselling skills
• Mentorship…