Experienced Staff Nurse | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

The Haematology Day Unit is a nurse led service offers apheresis, supportive care and venesection. We care for patients with haematological cancers, sickle cell disease and other haematology diseases.

Our aim is to provide expert care to allow patients to avoid hospital admissions and to manage their disease in an ambulatory setting.

We are seeking experienced senior nurses to join our team as a Staff Nurse on the Haematology Day Unit.

The individuals should be motivated, have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and an ability to organize, prioritize and co-ordinate

within a challenging and fast paced environment. You will be supported by a strong expert team, including the Ward Sister, Clinical Nurse

Specialists, Advanced Nurse Practitioners and the inpatient Matron team.

We are currently open Monday to Friday 08.00 - 20.00. Shift patterns at present are 9.5 hour shifts per week. We do not currently work weekends

or bank holidays regularly, however occasionally work out of hours to support the service and eventually we may aim for weekends to be

permanent in the future.

Closing date

11th September 2026

We are seeking experienced and motivated nurses to join our team on the Haematology Day Unit. We are seeking nurses that are eager to

develop their clinical skills and competence and want to be future leaders within haematology nursing in an ambulatory setting.

You will have the opportunity to further develop and enhance your skills within a haemato-oncology setting with the support and training

necessary.

We are seeking candidates with a strong desire to deliver the best individualized care to patients living with haematological diseases by working as an effective part of the nursing and wider team.

Interviewer information pack

The successful candidate will need to have at extensive experience in haematology and acute setting and will be committed to developing their

skills, knowledge, and leadership in a fast paced setting.

Opportunities for the right candidate include developing skills in apheresis, expert cannulation assisted by ultrasound, femoral line placement, and bone marrow biopsy skills. Informal visits/phone calls are strongly recommended.

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s

Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care,

clinical excellence, research and innovation.

You will have the opportunity to further develop and enhance your skills within a haemato-oncology setting with the support and training

necessary. You will have the opportunity to work alongside experienced nurses and specialists to develop and gain a plethora of skills to enhance

your nursing ability. We have a supportive culture, whereby we encourage each other to strive to be the best within our daily practice, and our

feedback as a team reflects this.

Independently manage a group of patients within the speciality whilst

working as part of the multidisciplinary team, delivering individualised and personalised direct patient care.

Demonstrate appropriate practice and specialist advice in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care. This includes history taking, physical examination and the requesting of agreed

diagnostic procedures/clinical investigations.

Responsible for the correct administration of prescribed medication

including transfusion of blood and blood products.

Be responsible for assessing and recognising emergencies in the

speciality. To interpret information and take appropriate action and to lead others to do the same.

Act as an advocate for patients within the department, to ensure a patient

orientated approach to the delivery of care and to meet standards within

the NHS Plan and other relevant guidelines.

Ensure that patients’ receive high quality clinical care and a good patient

experience, having regard for their customs, religious beliefs and

doctrines.

This advert closes on Friday 11 Sep 2026