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Plastic surgery Staff Nurse | St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Job details
Posting date: 07 June 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £34,089 - £41,498 per annum inc HCAS (pro-rata)
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 07 July 2024
Location: Tooting, SW17 0QT
Company: st georges nhs trust
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 6331996/200-6331996-MA-ND-Z

Summary

• To provide continuity in the day to day running of plastic surgery
outpatient clinics.
• To support staff and patients working in those clinics.
• To provide care for patients in a variety of clinical environments
where patients having plastic surgery are managed, including wound
care.
• To be responsible for the management of supplies.
• To run clinics for ankle brachial pressure index assessment.

The post holder is required to work primarily in the plastic surgery outpatient area. However, the person may work in the Hand Unit.

The role within all departments is assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care for patients; supporting medical and senior nursing staff in the provision of clinics; managing, ordering, and organising supplies for the clinic; undertaking lower limb assessment for ankle brachial pressure index prior to compression management.

The day to day running of Consultant and Nurse led plastic outpatient clinics. Resource management in terms of supplies; equipment and ordering, in the department and fire warden.

As a designated Trauma Centre, St. George’s offers great prospects for nurses with a passion for plastic surgery and wound care nursing. Being committed to providing quality patient care and maintaining safety, it is also committed to staff development and training opportunities.

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.

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.

Please see the attached supporting document which contains more and person specification information about the role.


This advert closes on Friday 21 Jun 2024

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