A new Registered General Nurse post at Tyneside Surgical Services, an independent provider with a day case facility on the Team Valley site. The role centres on assessing and monitoring patients recovering from day case surgery, managing their pain and sickness, and preparing them safely for discharge. Working alongside consultants and anaesthetists, the post sits within a unit that also runs endoscopy, outpatients and on-site MRI and ultrasound. Applicants need NMC registration and acute care experience.
What the job involves
- Provide safe, effective and compassionate nursing care to patients undergoing day case surgery, with particular responsibility for post-operative recovery
- Receive patients after surgery and assess and monitor vital signs, consciousness, pain and overall clinical condition
- Recognise post-operative complications or deterioration, elevate promptly and respond to emergencies
- Assess and manage post-operative pain and nausea and vomiting in line with prescriptions and protocols
- Assess throughout recovery and confirm discharge criteria are met, including safe arrangements for the patient to get home
- Escalate concerns about suitability for discharge to the consultant, anaesthetist or senior clinician
- Give clear verbal and written post-operative advice to patients and, where appropriate, relatives or carers, and complete discharge documentation
- Assess surgical wounds, dressings and drains
- Administer medicines safely and manage checking, recording, storage and medication administration records
- Work with consultants, anaesthetists, theatre staff and the multidisciplinary team, giving clear clinical handovers
- Keep accurate, contemporaneous patient records and protect patient privacy, dignity and confidentiality
- Follow infection prevention, incident reporting, safeguarding, audit and CQC compliance requirements, and use equipment safely
What’s required
Qualifications
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Registration & licences
- RGN with current NMC registration, practising to the NMC Code
Experience
- Post-registration nursing experience
- Experience providing nursing care in an acute healthcare setting
Skills & knowledge
- Excellent clinical judgement
- Excellent communication and organisational skills
- Recognising and responding promptly to deterioration or post-operative complications
Other
- Resuscitation training appropriate to the role
Nice to have
- Surgical day case, post-operative, recovery, theatre, surgical ward or ambulatory care experience
- Independent healthcare experience
- Experience caring for patients undergoing plastic and cosmetic surgery
- Experience caring for patients after general anaesthesia, sedation or local anaesthesia
- Experience and competence in wound assessment and management
- Immediate Life Support (ILS) qualification
- Qualified in phlebotomy and cannulation
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
