About the role
Salary: £23.13 an hour
Per hour
- To work within the chemotherapy service in the safe provision of anticancer treatment within Mid and South Essex NHS Trust.
- Inform and educate patients on the prescribed chemotherapy and its side effects
- To counsel, support and educate patients and their carers on all aspects of their cancer journey be they newly diagnosed or being treated with palliative intent.
- Ensure that the patient has consented to treatment and reconfirms agreement to treatment
- Undertake patient assessment, recognition and recording of chemotherapy induced toxicities using common toxicity criteria.
- Recognition of dose modifications required for cytotoxic drug toxicities
- Protocol driven decision making regarding suitability for treatment - to include blood parameters and patient performance status.
- Undertake telephone triage for chemotherapy patients and their carers, to ensure that potential treatment toxicities are treated appropriately and swiftly.
- Refer to support services as required e.g. palliative care, primary care, social services, Occupational therapy, Dietetics, Physiotherapy and Oncology Counsellor, orthotics department.
- Ensure that the patient is rebooked for treatment and medical review at the appropriate time interval, and any pre-investigation forms are given to the patient.
- Documentation of patient attendance in patient notes.
- To communicate and work with all members of the MDT to provide good care and symptom management
- Ensure that practice adheres to local and national policies and guidelines to minimise the risk associated with cytotoxic drugs.
- At all times act within current Southend Hospital NHS Trust Policies and Guidelines of Clinical Practice.
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