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Senior Staff Nurse -Lane Fox Clinic Nurse | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	27 Mai 2024
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£42,471 - £50,364 p.a incl HCA
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	26 Mehefin 2024
Lleoliad:	London, SE1 7EH
Cwmni:	Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	6316226/196-NM11657

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Band 6 Senior Staff Nurse - Specialist Respiratory Weaning and Rehabilitation Unit Outpatient Clinic Nurse

If you are looking for a challenge and have an interest in specialist respiratory medicine, then we are the place for you. Would you like to develop your knowledge and skills within Respiratory Weaning and Rehabilitation? Do you like to be challenged and think autonomously? If so we have a vacancy for Band 6 Senior Staff Nurse within Lane Fox Respiratory Unit Outpatient Clinic

The Lane Fox Respiratory Unit is the largest weaning and home mechanical ventilation centre in the UK. We provide management and long term follow up for patients with chronic respiratory disease such as COPD and neuro-muscular diseases and offers specialist nurse lead clinics. The Lane Fox Respiratory Unit also offers a specialist home ventilation service which manages patients requiring non invasive ventilation in the community as well as supporting tracheostomy tube changes at hospital and community clinics. There will be the opportunity to broaden your skill set and experience the different aspects of this diverse service as some cross cover will be expected.

We welcome you to contact us to find out more about the role and would be happy to show you around the unit and answer any questions you may have.

Alongside this role there is currently a vacancy in the Home Ventilation Team being advertised.

Closing date: 09/06/2024

Interview date: 17/06/2024



Our outpatient department provides a range of services including routine follow up reviews, transitional care clinics, and outpatient set up services for domiciliary NIV. Our outpatient nurse provides nurse led clinics to assist patients with trouble shooting of devices and interfaces, alongside assisting the ward team with interface reviews and teaching. Our clinic nurse supports patients with video consultations, alongside face to face sessions.

If you share our vision to help patients with respiratory failure to live independently this is the perfect job for you.

We welcome applicants with a willingness to learn, that thrive under pressure and have the ability to adapt and refine their skills according to the demands of the unit. You must have previous experience within an outpatient setting and a thorough knowledge of respiratory conditions.

We can offer you a personalised induction programme with supervision and support from our dedicated practice development team and one to one support from the senior nursing team. We have excellent development programme with protected learning time including support to develop management skills.

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
• Independently manage a group of patients within the specialty 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.
• Ensure that patients’ receive high quality clinical care and a good patient experience, having regard for their customs, religious beliefs and doctrines.
• To provide leadership, support and guidance to staff in monitoring the planning delivery and evaluation of individualised care.
• Is wholly accountable for his / her practice in line with the NMC code of professional conduct and takes every reasonable opportunity to sustain and improve his / her knowledge and professional competence.
• Ensure safe and effective care for complex patients requiring advance clinical skills and responsible for carrying out specialist nursing procedures to area.
• Ensure that sensitive patient records are stored appropriately.
• Ensure staff take precautions to minimise the risk of cross infection in relation to the safe disposal of body fluids (including blood).
• To be an effective communicator with patients/carers/families regarding disease treatment and management.
• Facilitate a high quality, cost effective specialist service through monitoring and audit and other quality initiatives agreed by the Trust.
• Identify and intervene where circumstances contribute to an unsafe environment for patients and staff. To bring instances to the attention of the Sister/Charge Nurse for the area.
• Ensure that the learning environment and specialist training is appropriate for both pre and post registration learners and participate in the development of appropriate programmes.
• Contribute in the Trust’s clinical supervision programme for staff.
• To assist the Sister/Charge Nurse in developing a culture that is challenging, stimulating, rewarding and supportive.
• To act as mentor/assessor to unqualified staff and to provide education, advice and support to a team of nurses.
• Utilise research findings in the delivery of specialist patient care, developing new ways of working and to disseminate relevant information to staff.
• Provide a leadership role model and demonstrate specialist knowledge and high standards of clinical practice and provide support or advice when necessary.
• Maintain accurate records of the clinical service and ensuring that confidentiality of information is adhered to.
• Organise own work and manage own caseload and practice, identifying and maintaining supportive networks for self and other staff members.
• Take an active role in risk assessment, supporting implementation of strategies to minimise risk. Ensuring incidents and near misses are reported, through promoting a no blame culture.
• To create an environment that fosters good communication between patient and health care professionals, that meets individual’s needs.


This advert closes on Sunday 9 Jun 2024