Senior SACT Nurses(UK Visa Sponsorship)
Job Description
Role Overview
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced Senior SACT Nurse to join the Systemic Anti-Cancer Treatment (SACT) Units at Sussex Cancer Centre and Princess Royal Hospital.
This is a senior clinical role for a registered nurse with advanced SACT expertise who is committed to delivering safe, compassionate, and highly specialised cancer care. You will play a key role in supporting patients, families, and carers throughout their cancer treatment journey, while also providing clinical leadership and supervision within a multidisciplinary team.
Your Impact
As a Senior SACT Nurse, you will:
- Lead by example in delivering high-quality, evidence-based SACT care
- Support patients and carers to understand and cope with diagnosis, treatment, side effects, and outcomes
- Act as a clinical resource for nursing colleagues, promoting best practice and patient safety
- Support the Unit Manager in ensuring efficient service delivery, workforce coordination, and effective use of resources
Key Responsibilities
Clinical Practice
- Coordinate and manage clinical activity within the SACT unit
- Administer SACT and IV therapies as part of a nurse-led treatment service
- Deliver complex nursing care during treatment, including early recognition and management of acute reactions, toxicities, and extravasation incidents
- Provide expert cannulation and venepuncture following appropriate training and competency assessment
- Maintain a high standard of patient safety, documentation, and infection prevention
Patient & Carer Support
- Communicate highly complex and sensitive information relating to cancer diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment
- Support patients with symptom management, side-effect education, and treatment decision-making
- Adapt communication to meet individual cultural, emotional, and psychological needs
Leadership & Service Development
- Supervise, support, and mentor junior nursing staff
- Act as a clinical role model, supporting learning and professional development
- Contribute to service improvement initiatives and quality assurance
- Work collaboratively with medical, pharmacy, and allied health professionals
Working at UHSussex
At UHSussex, inclusion, compassion, and excellence are at the heart of everything we do. We are proud to hold an Outstanding CQC rating for Caring and are committed to creating a workplace where every colleague feels supported and valued.
We offer:
- Active staff networks and buddy schemes
- Recognition as a Disability Confident Leader (Level 3)
- Status as a Veteran Aware Trust
- A culture that encourages innovation, learning, and wellbeing
Qualifications & Experience
Essential
- Current UK NMC registration
- Accredited SACT qualification
- Substantial experience in oncology / haematology nursing
- Experience supervising, mentoring, or educating junior staff
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Evidence of service improvement or quality initiatives
- Degree in Nursing or equivalent professional experience
Desirable
- Leadership or management training
- Physical assessment qualification
- Advanced communication skills training
- Psychological therapies (Level 2)
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
You will be expected to demonstrate:
- Commitment to personal development in equality and inclusion
- Experience of promoting diversity and inclusive practice in the workplace
Safeguarding & Compliance
- Appointment is subject to an enhanced DBS check
- This role falls under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1975)
- Overseas applicants must provide criminal record certificates from countries lived in over the past 10 years
Visa Sponsorship & Right to Work
This role may be eligible for sponsorship under the UK Skilled Worker route, subject to meeting UKVI skill, salary, and role-specific requirements (minimum salary threshold currently £25,000).
Please note: The Trust is not currently directly recruiting internationally qualified nurses without UK NMC registration.
Secondment Applicants
Applicants currently employed by another NHS Trust must obtain formal written approval from their line manager before applying for this role as a secondment. Applications without prior approval cannot be progressed.
