Permanent position, 20.5 hours a week
Are you energetic, fervent, and interested in delivering excellent patient care? Then come and join our friendly, supportive, dynamic team at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. As a team, we put patients and their families at the heart of everything we deliver. The Registered Nurse at Aspen Centre - Dermatology outpatient role will be an exciting opportunity to excel in your career. Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers a countywide Dermatology service, and this post will be based at Aspen Centre, Gloucester. We are looking for a compassionate Nurse leader to join our team to help deliver a high standard of care and work well within a multidisciplinary team.
You will be working with the Band 6 sister and dermatology specialist nurses, who will support you in achieving the competencies. You should also be able to demonstrate consistently developing your knowledge to provide patients with advanced treatment options.
Main duties of the job
1. Communicate effectively and actively participate in Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) meetings to aid patient care.
2. Utilize effective clinical skills to cover the minor operations and clinics with the allocated establishment.
3. Establish a friendly working environment and help support the clinic as allocated through the rota.
4. Act as a role model, demonstrating high levels of clinical expertise and delivering individual patient care.
5. Proactively engage in education and development, ensuring its relevance to the practice area and individual needs.
6. Demonstrate excellent skills and ability to work in a busy environment, promoting excellent team working and interdisciplinary relationships.
7. Ensure Health and Safety standards for the workplace are in place and support with risk assessments.
8. Work closely with the specialist Nurses, Doctors, Senior Nurses, Health Care Assistants, and Matron to ensure the operational delivery of high-quality care, clinical safety & effective clinical governance within given resources.
9. Adhere to all Trust policies and procedures and professional code of conduct.
Our commitment to improving our staff and patient experience allows us to look for candidates who wish to excel in their career and are willing to take training to gain experience to fulfill and meet all dermatology service demands.
About us
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides acute hospital services mainly from two large district general hospitals, Cheltenham General Hospital and Gloucestershire Royal Hospital. We remain the major provider of secondary care services in the area, and analysis shows that for Gloucestershire, we are the leading acute healthcare provider by a significant margin.
Our vision is 'Best Care For Everyone', and our People & Organisational Development Strategy will ensure we have the right number of staff with the required skills to be successful, through effective recruitment, retention, education, recognition & reward. We have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate:
* Caring
* Listening
* Excelling
Gloucestershire is a multicultural county, and we believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to advance the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population. We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity.
Benefits include holiday entitlement as per NHS service, NHS Pension Scheme, free eye tests and health checks, gym discount, free bicycle loan scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, Occupational health services, and much more.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The brief description is mentioned above. For a detailed job description and main responsibilities, please see the attached Job Description & Personal Specification document.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Registered Nurse with the Nursing Midwifery Council.
Desirable
* Experience of working with Dermatology as one of the areas of practice.
* Mentorship in practice.
Experience
Essential
* Good theoretical knowledge of dermatology medical conditions and procedures.
* Ability to switch between different activities and unpredictable demands in meeting outpatient activities.
* Range of clinical competencies as required fulfilling the role and willingness to seek training.
* Advanced IT skills that include the use of hospital IT systems and patient portals.
* Develop skills related to absence management and recruitment and retention of staff.
Knowledge/ Skills
Essential
* Excellent communication skills written and verbal, able to communicate for clinical purpose, negotiation, leadership, and influence which may include highly sensitive, contentious information, with barriers to understanding.
* Working knowledge of safety and governance frameworks and standards (including confidentiality/ freedom of information/ Caldicott regulations/ CQC essential standards).
* Identifies potential health, safety, and security issues and collaborates with others to promote and maintain an environment that supports infection prevention and control policies and procedures.
* Able to prioritize own workload and have personal resilience to manage complexity and work in an ambiguous or changing environment.
* Awareness of the Equality and Diversity agenda that sustains relationships that promote dignity, rights, and responsibilities.
Employer details
Employer name
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Aspen Centre - dermatology outpatients
Gloucester
GL1 3PX
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