Staff Nurse-Private Patients | Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 26 June 2024 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £34,089 - £41,498 per annum incl. HCAS |
| Oriau: | Full time |
| Dyddiad cau: | 26 July 2024 |
| Lleoliad: | London, SW10 9NH |
| Cwmni: | Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Permanent |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 6399021/289-SC-2194 |
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We are looking for an enthusiastic and innovative team player to join the Private Patients Unit at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
This is an exciting opportunity for a talented individual with multiple skills and an appetite for delivering a first class service to join the team in one of the UKs most successful and progressive NHS Foundation Trusts.
The private patients unit is a dedicated inpatient facility consisting of 12 ensuite rooms, with newly refurbished day case pods in the Chelsea Wing and also an Outpatients Unit, Westminster Wing. The Chelsea Wing provides care for patients from a wide range of specialities including gynaecology, general surgery, bariatric, orthopaedic, plastic surgery and finally specialist medicine and oncology.
The private patient unit is embedded at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital alongside our NHS services and, because of this; we retain strong links with NHS nursing leadership and development. All of the staff who work within the private patients unit are employed by the NHS.
You will gain a vast clinical knowledge and understand a broad range of acute/complex medical and surgical conditions, and associated co-morbidities.
Most of all, you will be able to motivate and engage others to ensure that the services we provide supports the Trust’s values, as well as having a pioneering approach that is not afraid to challenge convention and traditional ways of working.
The Staff Nurse will:
Provide high quality clinical care to patients, in line with the Trust values and in accordance with professional regulations.
Accept delegated responsibility for specific activities/areas from the senior nurse in charge
Work in line with Trust policies, objectives, protocols and local guidelines, whilst also being aware of the importance of their role in supporting members of the team, and always adhering to the Trust values, and in accordance with NMC regulations.
Work autonomously and with others to always deliver high standards of care to patients and their carers, autonomously and as part of a team.
Communicate in line with Trust values, to patients, carers and staff at all times.
Take every opportunity to continue to develop, practice and expand their own general and specialist nursing skills.
Maintain high standards of professional and ethical responsibility, and accountability and be aware of the medico-legal aspects of nursing, in line with professional, regulating and local guidance.
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is proud to be one of the top performing and safest trusts in England. We have two main acute hospital sites—Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, plus our award-winning clinics across North West London and beyond.
Clinical
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate individualised patient care through appropriate frameworks, including safe effective arrangements for discharge, underpinned by Trust values.
• Assist members of the team in the co-ordination of the clinical activities
• Use clinical standards to participate in the process of monitoring the quality of care delivered. Act to ensure that nursing practice is of the highest standard, in line with Trust and CQC standards.
• Supply and/or administer medication safely in line with Trust medicines policy
Professional
• Maintain a professional behaviour at all times and promote a positive image of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust at all times, in line with Trust values.
• Contribute to a high quality safe working environment in which patients receive a high standard of care
• Participate in the setting of standards for nursing practice and for care involving the multi-disciplinary team
• Practice in accordance with, and aware of his/her responsibilities under, the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and other appropriate NMC guideline
Education and Development
• Be responsible for, and demonstrate personal professional development, maintain up to date clinical skills and ensure mandatory training is always current.
• Be aware of current developments within the nursing profession and within the NHS
• Participate in team and ward meetings
• Participate in established research projects and clinical audit in local area
Management and leadership
• Manage a group of patients, in line with level of experience.
• Supervise under the direction of the Sister/Charge Nurse, the work of unqualified staff.
• Manage the ward/department in the absence of the Band 6 or 7 nurses, if senior enough to do so.
• Demonstrate effective time management and prioritization of workload.
Please see attached job description and person specification to this advert for further details.
This advert closes on Wednesday 10 Jul 2024