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Senior Staff Nurse - Same Day Emergency Care
NHS AfC: Band 6
Main area ED Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Long days and Weekends) Job ref 197-AJ-R-8764
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.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.
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.
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the IC…
Job overview
The candidate must have the ability to demonstrate competency in all extended ED or acute medicine roles, such as patient triaging, wound care, phlebotomy and cannulation skills.
Ability to independently co-ordinate the department
Ability to supervise workload of self and others
Ability to teach self and others
Demonstrate commitment to support national, Trust and ED strategies and objectives as this department works very closely with ED
Main duties of the job
The post holder will play a key role in supporting the nurse managers in providing high quality care. He/she will be prepared to work within the division as a named nurse, within a team taking responsibility for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care.
The post holder will be a clinically credible practitioner who can provide effective patient care in a range of clinical settings, having regard for relevant policies and evidence base nursing.
Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Actively participate in the delivery of care.
- Care for patient with regard to their individual care needs whilst maintaining patient dignity and confidentiality in accordance with the NMC code of conduct
- Practise and promote nursing care to the highest standard in accordance with the Trust's policies, procedures and the NMC Code of Conduct, and fulfil PREP requirements.
- Establish a supportive and organised working environment conducive to the well being of patients and carers.
- Develop, promote and maintain effective communication and working relationships with all members of the multi-disciplinary team, patients and carers.
- Practise in a professional manner at all times, acting as a role model and resource for peers and junior colleagues whilst offering support and leadership.
- Determine nursing priorities and plan patient care according to staff availability.
- Inform Clinical Nurse manager or Matron when changes occur in circumstances which affect the delivery of care.
- Having regard to the workload of, and the pressures on colleagues, inform the Nurse in Charge or Matron if these are seen to jeopardise safe standards of practise.
- Ensure that all clinical and legal documents completed are both accurate and legible and that the nurses understand the relevance and confidentiality of their nature.
- Promote the provision of a customer‑orientated service.
- All trust employees are required to observe and comply with the Trust's policies and procedures for infection control ensuring the environment in which they work is safe, clean and tidy. The use of standard infection control precautions is mandatory for all staff to prevent or minimize the spread of microorganisms and communicable diseases to patients, staff and surrounding community.
- Perform an expanded role of duties including Phlebotomy, IV cannulation etc.
- Be familiar with the Major Incident Plan and own role within it.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
- Registered Nurse Level 1 register
- 1st Level Degree or equivalent
- Teaching and assessing qualification
Experience
- Minimum two years post-registration experience
- Experience of working within the multidiciplinary team
- Experience of liaising with other agencies
- Ability to work autonomously
- Good time management and prioritisation skills
- Previous experience in the ED or SDEC areas
Knowledge
- Knowledge and understanding of the relevant NICE guidance
- Evidence of continued professional development of self and other health care professionals
- Knowledge of research and audit
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. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women’s staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.
Please note: Information provided during recruitment and pre‑employment checks must be accurate. Misrepresentation may be investigated as fraud and could lead to withdrawal from the process, professional sanctions, or criminal action.
Please note: that sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route is subject to Trust allocation and UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) approval.
Use of AI in recruitment: We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support the initial review of applications against the essential criteria for this role. Where AI is used, it will support rather than replace human decision-making, and applications will remain subject to appropriate human review.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Application numbers
To ensure fairness and manageable shortlisting processes, some vacancies may have an application cap. This means the vacancy will close once a set number of applications have been received even if this happens before the advertised closing date.
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