Staff Nurse - Nightingale Ward

Main area: General Surgery; Colorectal; Upper GI; General Medicine

Grade Band: 5

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Job ref: 196-NM12540

Employer: Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Site: Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital

Town: London

Salary: £35,964 - £43,780 p.a inc HCA

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 17/02/2025 23:59

Interview date: 25/02/2025

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts, providing a full range of hospital and community services.

Job overview:

Full time posts for Registered Nurses have opened up in Nightingale Ward. We are a team of dynamic and energetic nurses and nursing assistants who look after patients needing surgery under the General Surgery; Colorectal and Upper GI teams. During periods of patient influx, we are trained and well supported into looking after Medicine, Plastics and Orthopaedics patients as well.

Main duties of the job:

Our ward Nightingale Ward has a group of skilled experienced nurses and nurse specialists. They are a vibrant team of people who look out for each other as much as we do our patients. We manage the emergency general surgical pathways and a variety of short stay benign cases. This involves complex pre and post op surgical and medical care, managing both the physical and psychological changes for our patients. We also follow enhanced recovery pathways to reduce the length of stay while 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.

Detailed job description and main 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, ensuring a patient-oriented 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 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 appropriately.
• Responsible for the correct administration of prescribed medication including transfusion of blood and blood products.

Person specification:

Skills/Knowledge:

• Able to assess, plan, implement & evaluate nursing care
• Knowledgeable on basic nursing care
• Knowledge of care and management of an acutely unwell patient
• Previous experience in other nursing fields (Gastrointestinal Medicine or Trauma/Orthopaedic)

Education/Qualifications:

• RN1/ RN2/ RN12 or Registered Nurse on the NMC register. To hold the appropriate level for the area of speciality.
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Teaching & assessing qualification

Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects, and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures, and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitably according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or studies at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership. Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.

As an organisation, we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends. We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work-life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking into account the individual’s personal circumstances as well as the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the onboarding process.

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You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.