Nursing

Oncology Sister

Oncology Sister

Guilford Hospital | Nursing | Permanent | Full Time |

Up to £51,000 per annum depending on skills and experience

37.5 hours per week

As the UK’s largest Healthcare Charity, we’re offering you the chance to help shape the highest standards in patient care. Here, you’ll have the time you need to role model good practice and develop your colleagues. We’ll value your excellent communication skills and enthusiastic, forward-thinking approach. This is nursing as it should be.

We are looking for an experienced Oncology Sister/ Charge Nurse who has a SACT Passport and a University accredited SACT course. If you’re currently a Senior Staff Nurse in Oncology and looking to develop your leadership skills and progress your career, this role offers an excellent development pathway.

About the Oak Suite

The Oak Suite is a friendly and supportive day‑case chemotherapy unit, delivering high‑quality care through a combination of clinical excellence and a holistic, patient‑focused approach. We provide SACT chemotherapy and supportive treatments for patients with a range of oncology conditions. With 19 chemotherapy chairs, our unit offers a dynamic and collaborative environment, making this an excellent opportunity to join a dedicated team and further develop your specialist expertise in cancer care.

The role

As an Oncology Sister / Charge Nurse within our Chemotherapy Unit, you will be an experienced NMC‑registered nurse with strong leadership skills and post‑registration experience caring for cancer patients undergoing Systemic Anti‑Cancer Therapy (SACT).

You will work closely with our Oncology Team, Oncologists, Oncology Pharmacists and Complimentary Therapists ensuring seamless, safe and effective care.

In this role, you will:

• Be responsible for ensuring the provision of exemplary care for patients undergoing cancer treatment, working closely with the Lead Cancer Nurse to educate and support both patients and staff.

• Supervise, mentor and teach staff within the clinical area, supporting the hospital management team by providing strong clinical leadership.

• Have experience in the administration of SACT, supported by a recognised, university‑accredited qualification.

• Bring experience across Cancer/Oncology Nursing, demonstrating a clear understanding of cancer, its treatments, and the impact on patients and their families.

• Be an effective communicator with patients, colleagues and key stakeholders.

• Possess comprehensive clinical expertise and up‑to‑date knowledge of current professional practice and cancer policy requirements.

• Actively contribute to improving the quality of information provided to patients and carers, ensuring it is accessible, informative, and supported by mechanisms for gathering and responding to feedback.

• Maintain awareness of current professional and clinical practice developments, ensuring national policy and best practice are reflected in day‑to‑day care.

• Initiate, plan, lead and facilitate audit and clinical effectiveness projects/programmes that provide clinical assurance and support service development aligned with research and best practice.

• Hold a chemotherapy qualification (essential), with a cancer‑specific qualification desirable.

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.

Nuffield Health Guildford Hospital

Nuffield Health Guildford Hospital provides high-quality healthcare working with leading Consultants to offer a range of services and treatments for preventing, diagnosing and treating a wide array of medical conditions and offer a wide range of complex surgery and services. We are proud to have received a "good" rating from the health care regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Our facilities include 49 en-suite patient bedrooms, 4 operating theatres, acute dependency and oncology units. We’ve been awarded the Macmillan Quality Environment Mark for cancer care and our Endoscopy service has achieved JAG accreditation. Our site is shared with an NHS Trust hospital, giving us access to their facilities. The working atmosphere is highly professional and stimulating, yet friendly and collaborative like that of a large family unit.

The hospital is easily accessible from the A3 or M25 and we are located about 1.5 miles from Guildford town centre.

Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today.

If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it’s a good idea to apply right away to ensure you’re considered for this role.

It starts with you. 

Rewards & Benefits

Helping you be and feel your best.

Annual Leave

25 days + Bank Holidays, increasing to 27 days after 5 years and to 30 days after 10 years of service.

Nuffield Health Healthcare Plan

Membership is free for employees and you can add partner and dependants at your own cost.

*eligibility criteria applies.

Financial Wellbeing

A range of employee benefits through a Financial Wellbeing provider – including affordable loans repaid through salary, access to your pay when you need it, simple savings, a government Help to Save scheme and money insights.

Cycle to Work Scheme

Save money, get fit and reduce your carbon footprint by taking advantage of this tax-efficient scheme to get a new bike.

Gym Membership

Free membership to any Nuffield Health gym, plus discounted memberships for family members.

Online GP

Discounted access to secure video and telephone GP consultations and a suite of healthcare management tools, provided by digital healthcare company Doctor Care Anywhere.

Emotional Wellbeing Support

Access to our Emotional Wellbeing services and discounted virtual, telephone, and face-to-face treatment.

Healthcare Scheme

Provides you with access to treatment in our own hospitals (or other Nuffield Health approved facilities).

Overtime

For clinical roles grade 9 and below, the overtime is at a standard rate of pay. For unsocial hours, you’ll be paid an additional enhancement to your salary at the following rates: Nights Hours worked between 7pm and 7am on any day of the week, 30% of basic hourly rate. Weekends Hours worked between 7am and 7pm on a Saturday or Sunday, 20% of basic hourly rate. Bank Holidays Hours worked between midnight and midnight of a bank holiday, 100% of basic hourly rate.

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Hints & Tips

Help with your application.

Once you’ve found the right role for you, you can apply online. All you need to do at this stage is submit your CV, a covering email, and a few personal details.

Our recruitment team screens all of the applications we receive. So, if they see that you’ve got the right sort of skills and experience needed for the role, your details will be passed on to the relevant hiring manager. Then, if you fit all the criteria at this stage, you’ll be invited to take part in a video, telephone or face-to-face interview.

CV

Think about the skills and qualities asked for in the job description and show how you’ve applied those same skills and qualities in other roles. Focus on the things that will make us want to see more of you.

Covering email

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Video interview

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DBS Checks

Some of our roles require a DBS check and they are processed through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) as part of the recruitment process. These checks are to assist employers in making safer recruitment decisions. However, a check is just one part of robust recruitment practice.

Documents

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Your current studies

If you are currently undertaking any strudies, education or apprenticeships, its worth noting there are some training provider we're not partnered with, and therefore potentially unable to support your continued learning. Ensure you share this at interview and for queries contact psc@nuffieldhealth.com

Feedback on applications

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