Nurse Team Leader-Lister Macmillan Cancer Centre

Go back East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust Nurse Team Leader-Lister Macmillan Cancer Centre

The closing date is 07 August 2026

We are recruiting for a Nurse Team Leader-Lister Macmillan Cancer Centre who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

The post holder will work as part of a team in the Lister Macmillan Cancer Centre to provide patients with holistic, evidence-based care as they undergo systemic anti-cancer therapies for cancer.

This will involve carrying out pre-treatment checks, venipuncture, cannulation, patient assessment and observation, administration of medications, support of junior colleagues and working collaboratively with a broad, multi-disciplinary team.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values:

Include,Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Promote, review and develop high standards of professional practice, competencies, protocols and high quality care delivery within Trust and Departmental policies, protocols and guidelines.

In conjunction with the Nurse Team Manager, to be responsible for the organisation, delivery and evaluation of nursing care for patients within the department, ensuring that all members of the team deliver excellent patient care within the framework of the relevant policies and procedures.

Deputise for the Nurse Team Manager in their absence in all aspects of operational management.

To be a visible presence on the unit and co-ordinate the nursing service

Demonstrate competence & confidence in management of a cohort of Cancer patients in LMCC

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and 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 and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

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

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
• Educated to degree level in adult nursing or a health-related subject
• Some familiarity with different types of cancer treatments and their side effects
• Chemotherapy course completed (band
  6) or (band
  5) demonstrates willingness to undertake
• Post-registration qualifications in the field of oncology and / or chemotherapy
• Advanced communication course

• Post-registration experience as a registered nurse in an acute setting.
• Experience working with cancer patients in a medical setting
• Experience communicating sensitively with people who are distressed or in need of emotional support
• Familiarity with the Chemocare prescription management system

• Experience in the administration of cytotoxic chemotherapy
• To be competent in venepuncture and cannulation
• Previous exposure to central venous access devices
• To demonstrate expert knowledge and skills in the management of the changing healthcare needs of the patient, responding to changes promptly and appropriately and developing specialised plans of care/ follow relevant protocols in collaboration with other senior nurses/ medical staff

• Awareness of different cancer types and treatment modalities
• Keeps up to date with developments in health and nursing
• Demonstrate an understanding of teams, their dynamics and how to motivate team members to participate and complete tasks
• To be competent in managing challenging situations that may arise, (i.e. managing conflict.)

• Experience and evidence of engagement around equality, diversity and inclusion issues in relation to policy, service development and service delivery in respect of both services to users and the management of staff
• Role model our Trust values every day

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