Band 6 Staff Nurse in City of Westminster

To provide leadership, guidance and support to all nursing staff within the clinical area, and continuous quality care to a specified group of patients. To take responsibility for the management and co-ordination of the clinical area in conjunction with and in the absence of the Ward Manager. To provide support and expertise in the assessment, planning and evaluation of all patient care within the surgical and orthopaedic setting. To assist in the budgetary management, training and development of staff to provide high quality care which is evidence-based.

Assist the Ward Manager in providing advice, guidance, support and professional leadership for all nursing staff in the clinical area. Continually assess, plan, implement and evaluate evidence-based programmes of care in order to ensure the provision of a high standard of care. Personally deliver a high standard of care to a group of patients, acting as a team leader / named nurse and clinical role model at all times. Assist in developing the ward philosophy and framework of care in line with unit / organisational beliefs / values and changes in surgical.

Ensure the provision of advice, support and health information to patients and their carers in order to promote a health-based service. Ensure workload of nursing staff and colleagues does not jeopardise safe standards of practice and initiate action if necessary.

Qualifications & Experience

• Registered Nurse Level 1 register
• 1st Level Degree or equivalent
• Teaching and assessing qualification
• Desirable: Counselling course
• Desirable: Specialist course

Experience

• Essential: Significant years post-registration experience
• Essential: Experience of working within the multidisciplinary team
• Essential: Experience of liaising with other agencies
• Essential: Ability to work autonomously
• Essential: Good time management and prioritisation skills
• Desirable: Previous experience in endocrine and elderly care medicine
• Well developed interpersonal skills
• Desirable: Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Desirable: Effective decision making skills
• Desirable: Knowledge and understanding of the relevant NICE guidance
• Desirable: Evidence of continued professional development of self and other health care professionals
• Desirable: Time management skills
• Desirable: Organisational skills
• Desirable: IT skills
• Desirable: Knowledge of research and audit

Personal Qualities

• Essential: Fit for active physical workload and resilient under reasonable pressure of work
• Essential: Flexible approach to changing situations
• Well developed interpersonal skills
• Essential: Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Essential: Effective decision making skills
• Essential: Knowledge and understanding of the relevant NICE guidance
• Essential: Evidence of continued professional development of self and other health care professionals
• Essential: Time management skills
• Essential: Organisational skills
• Desirable: IT skills
• Desirable: Knowledge of research and audit

An exciting opportunity has arisen for surgical band 6 staff nurses to join ward 15 at Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Ward 15 is an acute surgical ward consisting of 39 beds in total, specialities include general surgery, colo-rectal, orthopaedic, gynaecology, vascular and breast surgery and Urology. As a Band 6 Staff Nurse, we will offer you excellent support in your new role with support from senior nursing management team, the Practice Development Nurse and peer to peer support with lots of learning and development opportunities. We will also offer you one of a kind surgical nursing course in affiliate with University of Greenwich and now a Trauma and Orthopaedic course which is also run in house. The nursing teams are committed to providing high quality, safety focused, and holistic care in a warm and friendly environment.

About the Trust

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. With a turnover of around £700 million, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham and a range of community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup. 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 (from February 2020), 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. Our staff culture change programme has been key to the Trust's improvement journey, as we've stabilised our workforce by reducing vacancy rates and improving staff retention. We've also significantly increased the representation of minority ethnic leaders across our clinical and corporate teams.