Staff Nurse | St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 15 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £34,089 - £41,498 per annum inc HCAS (pro-rata) |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 May 2024 |
| Location: | London, SW17 0QT |
| Company: | st georges nhs trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6190297/200-6190297-MA-ND-Y |
Summary
Job Summary:
• The post-holder is responsible for undertaking and recording a comprehensive nursing assessment and planning, delivering and evaluating high standards of evidenced based nursing care to a diverse group of patients.
• Is expected to deliver care without direct supervision. Is accountable for the care delivered and any omissions of care.
• Is expected to teach and supervise more junior staff, students and the non-registered nursing workforce.
• Is accountable for care or any omissions of care that he/she delegates to others
• Is expected to act as role model, delivering care with empathy and compassion as part of a multidisciplinary team.
Exciting opportunities have arisen to join Nye Bevan Unit - our newly established Emergency Surgical Assessment Unit (SAU) at St George’s Hospital. We are currently able to offer posts for Band 5 Nurses both with experience to work in this emergency setting.
Nye Bevan Unit (NBU) provides a service for the rapid assessment and treatment of a variety of surgical complications and specialities - these include upper gastro-intestinal, colorectal, plastics, ear nose & throat, head & neck, maxillofacial, plastics, urology, trauma & orthopaedics and gynae.
Patients are admitted from the Emergency Department, specialist nurses and GP referrals. Once patients have been assessed they will have a plan of care implemented and be admitted to an appropriate surgical ward, treated on the unit itself, transferred to theatre/ITU or discharged home.
NBU accepts admissions 24 hours a day, seven days a week and works closely with the nine surgical specialist teams. NBU is a fast paced environment consisting of 8 short stay beds, 8 assessment trollies, assessment chairs, HOT clinics, a SDEC and a minor procedures room.
If you are enthusiastic and motivated, with a kind and compassionate attitude and a desire to provide effective & efficient emergency care practice, then we need nurses like you.
Candidates would be expected to work a 12-hour shift pattern, including days, nights and weekends.
With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.
Their main site, St George’s Hospital in Tooting – one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals – is shared with St George’s, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George’s Hospital also hosts the St George’s, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.
As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.
The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.
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This advert closes on Monday 29 Apr 2024
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