Senior Staff Nurse Endoscopy

This job is brought to you by Jobs/Redefined, the UK's leading over-50s age inclusive jobs board. Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust (LGT) is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 - the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional in the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities. To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone.

Job overview: Are you caring and compassionate, clinically competent, observant and diligent? Would you strive to make a difference to the experience of our patients who have diverse health conditions and needs? Do you have the knowledge and skills to complete a range of evidence-based patient assessments? We have an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and flexible individual to join our Endoscopy team as a Senior Staff Nurse. The unit undertakes both diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. This is a rapidly expanding service with a workforce that is patient focused.

Main duties of the job: The post holder is responsible for the assessment of care needs, the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care with minimal to no supervision dependent on stage of development. The post holder will be required to assist in all Endoscopy procedures - ERCP, Colonoscopy, OGD and Bronchoscopy. The post holder is required to teach qualified and non-qualified staff including students following the critical care pathway. The post holder is designated to take charge of the Unit, deputising for the Band 7 Sister/Charge Nurse.

Working for our organisation: Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is a community focused provider of local and acute care, providing high quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich and Bexley. As an organisation, we've made significant improvements for patients and staff in the last two and-a-half years. This is reflected in our most recent Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection, which found improvements across the organisation and gave us an improved rating of "Good" in the Well-Led and Effective domains, in addition to the rating of "Good" that we had already achieved in the Caring domain.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities: Provides assessment, planning, organisation and co-ordination of care to Endoscopy patients. Establishes and maintains the highest standards of organisation and care delivery. Provides leadership, support and guidance to staff in monitoring the planning, delivery and evaluation of individualised care. Provides supervision to junior staff and acts as a mentor and assessor and creates a positive learning environment for junior staff, newly appointed staff and students. Carries out audit and research to increase knowledge and assure quality of care.

Person specification:

• Qualifications & Training

• Essential criteria: RGN ENB Endoscopy Course or equivalent experience with portfolio evidence ENB 998 / or equivalent mentorship course
• Desirable criteria: Evidence of continuing higher education at diploma or degree level

• Essential criteria: 2 years working in an Endoscopy Unit Evidence of developing managerial skills Teaching other nurses and being an effective mentor/preceptor
• Desirable criteria: JETS Workforce Course

• Essential criteria: Proven leadership skills Effective communication skills - written and verbal Able to support patients and family Must show evidence of continuing professional development and demonstrate awareness of new issues in nursing Problem solving
• Desirable criteria: IV Therapy Certificate IV Cannulation Certificate

We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview. As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve.