Staff Nurse - Endoscopy in London

Are you caring and compassionate? Would you strive to make a difference to the experience of our patients who have diverse health conditions and needs? If so we can offer you a wealth of clinical experiences. The Endoscopy Unit is looking for dynamic and flexible individuals to join their team. The unit undertakes both diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. This is a rapidly expanding service with a workforce that is patient focused. Come and join this motivated and productive team in Endoscopy if you are considering a challenging career in a nursing specialty.

Main Duties of the Job

• The post holder will play a key role in providing high quality care.
• He/she will be prepared to work within the divisions as a Named Nurse, within a Team taking responsibility for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating nursing 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 the evidence base nursing.
• The post holder will act in a professional manner at all times.

About Us

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.

Job Responsibilities

• Act as a Named Nurse within a Team taking responsibility, over an appropriate span of time, in conjunction with the Ward/Unit Manager and the multidisciplinary team, for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care from admission to discharge within the in-patient setting.
• Be patient-centered in approach to developing clinical care plans.
• Be aware of current advances in clinical care and be able to facilitate the team members in implementation of evidence-based practice.
• Take an active role in the continuing development and use of protocols and standards for nursing care.
• Participate in evaluation, audit, and research of nursing care.
• Actively work to promote health and prevent ill health in staff, patients and their relatives.
• Promote and maintain a safe and pleasant environment for patients, visitors, and colleagues.
• Check the readiness for use of emergency/special equipment and ensure all equipment in use, is in good working order.
• Have knowledge of recording relevant patient/nursing data on to computer.
• Accept responsibility for the administration, care, and custody of medicines, in accordance with legal requirements and NMC and Trust Guidelines on drug administration.
• Attend mandatory annual updates in fire training, basic life support, other identified sessions and maintain knowledge of relevant policies.
• Have knowledge and understanding of all relevant Trust policies, including the Major Incident Plan, ensuring that junior colleagues are aware of such policies.
• Have knowledge of and adhere to relevant parts of national legislation, including Health and Safety at Work Act, COSHH Regulations, and Moving and Handling Regulations.
• Transport people and/or items safely and to time consistent with legislation, policies and procedures.

Person Specification

Essential Qualifications

• 1st level registration NMC

Desirable Qualifications

• Degree Level
• Post registration qualification

Essential Experience

• Excellent interpersonal skills, both verbal and written
• Able to formulate and verbalise views.
• Able to anticipate and forward plan.
• Patient focused, putting quality and safety at the front of decision making

Knowledge

• Ability to work under pressure and remain calm
• Able to recognise stress in self and others and support colleagues through stressful situations
• Able to put view point across as well as take direction
• Reflective.

Desirable

• Computer Literate

Personal Qualities

• To demonstrate knowledge of being up to date within the speciality.
• Flexible, able to work all shifts including rotation to night duty. Adaptable to changes in shift pattern.
• To provide unit cover in the absence of the unit manager.
• Good listener and communicates well.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer Details

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
University Hospital Lewisham
Lewisham High Street
London
SE13 6LH