Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
Band 8a Lead Nurse Enhanced POSCU
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Lead Nurse, Enhanced Pediatrics Oncology Shared Care Unit (POSCU Level A)
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated Registered Children’s Nurse to lead the Enhanced Pediatrics Oncology Shared Care Unit (POSCU Level A) at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust. This permanent post is 0.57 WTE (21.3 hours per week).
As Lead Nurse, you will provide strategic, professional and clinical leadership, ensuring the delivery of high-quality paediatric oncology care, including infusional chemotherapy. Working closely with the Primary Treatment Centre (PTC), Children’s Directorate, community nursing teams and partner organisations, you will help develop and enhance the service while maintaining the highest standards of patient care.
Our Children’s Services span Queen’s Hospital and King George’s Hospital, offering:
- Inpatient wards
- HDU
- CYPAU
- A day unit with an established POSCU and hematology service
- Outpatient clinics
- A Level 2 NICU
- Community outreach
- Busy emergency departments
You will join a supportive multidisciplinary team with strong nursing leadership and excellent opportunities for professional development, leadership training, and academic progression through our university partnerships.
We are seeking a compassionate, dynamic, and enthusiastic nurse with the skills to lead service improvement.
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Responsibilities
- To work in close collaboration as a member of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) to contribute to the delivery of safe and effective clinical practice, education and training, practice, service development, and research/audit within the POSCU 1A service.
- The postholder will utilise management and leadership skills to contribute to nursing practice to improve the quality of care to patients in line with national guidance and policy in the care and management of POSCU.
- The postholder will provide support and advice to MDT colleagues and other professional groups internally and externally as an advocate for the Trust’s POSCU service.
We’re an organisation that is getting better and better, and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with.
- They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one).
- Our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission.
We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care.
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We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre, and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance.
We run a Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian, and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly, and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.
Contact Information
For an informal discussion, please contact Emily Bell, Head of Nursing, on 01708 435000 ext. 6558 or email Emily.bell9@nhs.net.
Please note: Applicants must be Registered Children's Nurses to apply.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Emily Bell
- Job title: Head of Nursing
- Email address: Emily.bell9@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 01708 435 000
- Ext: 6558
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