An exciting new training opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic RGN in the Sexual Health and Contraception Service. The successful candidate will be part of a skilled and welcoming nursing team and will be supported to learn and develop within the speciality.
You will work towards becoming an autonomous practitioner, under the umbrella of a friendly and enthusiastic team. This unique development post will offer a clear pathway to achieving required skills and competencies over a one to two year period. You will demonstrate a passion for improving the quality of life for the local community; an interest and understanding of sexual health, and a desire and commitment to learn new skills. If you are ready to advance your career and take on an exciting new challenge, this could be the opportunity to begin a rewarding journey on a new career pathway.
This post is advertised as a training post under Annexe 21, and salary will be 70% of the pay band maximum of the qualified rate. The expectation is that competencies will be completed within two years. All interviews will be held face to face.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Delivering a high standard of patient care as a Sexual and Reproductive Health Nurse.
2. Providing holistic nursing care using a range of assessment methods including history taking, physical assessment and interpretation of laboratory results where appropriate.
3. Planning programmes of care that are based on evidence and clinical judgement in the best interests of patients.
4. Managing risk, emphasising preventative measures.
5. Managing own caseload of patients and referring to other members of the multidisciplinary team if further support is required.
6. Providing appropriate information to patients diagnosed with sexually transmitted infections including routes of transmission, treatment and long-term health implications.
7. Working with Patient Group Directions in accordance with Trust guidelines and the law or working towards Independent Nurse Prescribing whilst using patient group directions according to Trust guidelines.
8. Providing continuity of care to patients, families and other carers.
We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with. We’re no longer in special measures; we’ve opened two new theatres at our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal.
We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care.
Our patients are benefitting from our Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub in Hornchurch.
These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and are providing an extra 88,000 scans a year.
The majority of our 8,000 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.
We’re looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Katie Wilkinson Job title: Lead Nurse Email address: katie.wilkinson17@nhs.net Telephone number: 0208 970 5724 #J-18808-Ljbffr