Experienced Staff Nurse - Same Day Emergency Care | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 22 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £34,089 - £41,498 p.a inc HCA |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 June 2024 |
| Location: | London, SE1 7EH |
| Company: | Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6311826/196-NM11650 |
Summary
If you area an experienced nurse with A&E, SDEC or Surgical skills and you are looking for a challenge we want to hear from you. We are based at ST Thomas' site on the emergency floor and our aim is to see, treat and discharge patients safely. Our unit focus on SAME DAY INITIATIVE by reducing number of admission on daily basis. We are looking for new experienced nurses to join our team. You will be able to gain experience in both pathways and be competent on your clinical skills.
Advert closing: 03rd June 2024
Interview date: 12th June 2024
We are a diverse and vibrant team of people who look out for each other as much as we do our patients. We care for patients with a variety of Acute Medical Conditions, like Diabetes, Asthma and COPD, Chest Pain ect. This involves complex and acute stages of many medical conditions. and medical care, managing both the physical and psychological changes for our patients. Whilst maintaining a high standard of care to ensure a safe discharge we work together with a large multidisciplinary team who all play a pivotal role in the care of our patients.
We also provide care for our Surgical SDEC which new and trying to establish in the same clinical area. Working relationships between the teams and managing the workload is very important to us.
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. We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark. We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities. We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
Duties and Responsibilities
• Responsible for carrying out clinical practice within designated clinical areas, ensuring that high quality, current evidence-based nursing assessment, care planning, implementation, interventions and evaluations for patients is provided from admission through to discharge.
• Will be responsible for the application of knowledge across the range of work procedures and practices, underpinned by theoretical knowledge and practical experience.
• To act as advocate for patients within the area, to ensure a patient
orientated approach to the delivery of care and to meet standards within the NHS Plan and other relevant guidelines.
• To ensure that patients’ receive high quality clinical care and a good
patient experience, having regard for their customs, religious beliefs and doctrines.
• Recognise and avoid situations that may be detrimental to the health and wellbeing of the individuals.
• Will advise on the promotion of health and the prevention of illness.
Recognise the significance of observations made, and use them to
develop and initiate nursing assessments and devise a plan of care.
Carry out those activities necessary to conduct a comprehensive
assessment of a person’s nursing requirements.
• Will ensure that all patients will have a discharge plan that is safe and
appropriate for their needs.
• Carry out nursing procedures and treatments, checking on and
maintaining the highest possible standards.
• Work alongside the multi-disciplinary team to ascertain treatments and advise on nursing priorities.
• Take a clear and concise history from patients by assessing their health and well being and complete documentation ensuring that all entries are accurate and legible and that all information systems are maintained.
• Undertake prescribed physical observations as follows: blood pressure,
temperature, respirations, blood sugars, urinalysis, weight and height, and report exceptions appropriates.
• Responsible for the correct administration of prescribed medication
including transfusion of blood and blood products
This advert closes on Monday 3 Jun 2024