Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
About
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.
The Trust has 7,500 staff and we have recently invested in our workforce to grow our establishment across a number of key services. In 2020 we won a London NHS Parliamentary Award in recognition of a wide range of initiatives to make the organisation a great place to work. We are accredited as a flexible working employer offering a number of flexible working options for staff. We are also accredited as a London Living Wage employer for our substantive, bank and contractors.
Our hospitals provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. Over the last year, our emergency performance has been among the strongest in London, despite our emergency departments being among the busiest in the capital.
Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich regularly achieves the fastest ambulance turnaround times in London. The critical care unit at the hospital is one of the few in the country to meet the gold standard for consultant and junior doctor staffing.
University Hospital Lewisham has the largest stroke rehabilitation centre in the country, and the third largest specialist centre in the UK for treating blood conditions such as sickle cell. The hospital is one of the few in the country to offer opt-out HIV testing in the emergency department, ensuring that any patient who has a blood test is routinely screened for HIV.
The Trust’s community services for children and adults in Lewisham are rated “Outstanding” by the Care Quality Commission.
The Trust is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.
Job overview
We are looking for dynamic, motivated and innovative Band 5 Nurses with excellent communication skills to join Oak Ward. We require Staff Nurses with a passion for providing high quality, patient centred care for our elderly patients. You will be required to work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team ensuring that the quality of care delivered is of the highest standard.
These posts are for Oak Ward which is a 28 bedded Acute Elderly Care ward. Our vision for the Elderly care wards is to ensure an environment that delivers a friendly, caring and compassionate approach to improving the health, independence and quality of life for all older people.
The successful candidate will need to be passionate about ensuring that the work force you lead delivers the highest standards of care to all patients.
The nursing team are committed to providing high quality, holistic care in a warm and friendly environment.
The ward can offer you excellent support in your new post via the Matron, Ward Sister and the Practice Development Nurse.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Key Result Areas & Performance:
* Act as a Named Nurse within a Team taking responsibility, over an appropriate span of time, in conjunction with the Ward Manager and the multidisciplinary team, for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care from admission to discharge within the in-patient setting.
* 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, and incorporate appropriate findings into practice.
* 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.
* Ensure his/her own and junior staff’s compliance with the NMC Guidelines for Records and Record Keeping (1998) in all settings.
* 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 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.
* Ensure all biomedical investigations and interventions are undertaken safely and in a timely manner, reporting and documenting results appropriately and in line with legislation, policies and procedures.
Work force
* Manage a group of patients, prioritising their needs in conjunction with those of the ward/department, to ensure safe and effective care.
* Manage the ward in the absence of senior staff, ensuring safe and effective patient care.
* Manage an area of responsibility as required within allocated resources.
Financial
* Have an understanding of ward/department budgets and how the division may become more cost-effective. Work within budgetary requirements whilst maintaining standards of care.
* Participate in the management of skill mix issues, stock control, and available resources.
Partnerships
* Take an active role in developing and maintaining effective communication with members of the interprofessional team, patients, and relatives about difficult matters in difficult situations.
General
* Participate in the orientation of new members of staff within their division. Attend relevant meetings and participate in discussions relating to the improvement of the service.
* Act as a change agent where necessary.
* Ensure all Trust Nursing policies and procedures are adhered to.
* Be aware of operational personnel issues relevant to the directorate including management of absence and sickness, disciplinary and recruitment matters.
* Where necessary, and with support, investigate the nursing aspect of complaints and clinical incidents, and initiate corrective actions.
* Ensure own continuing professional development and identify own Personal Development Plan.
* Participate in the clinical and educational development of other staff within the team.
* Act as a supervisor/ mentor for learners, and as preceptor for newly qualified registered nurses.
* Act as a clinical role model for all levels of staff.
* Encourage other staff to keep abreast of new developments and encourage the exchange of information, ideas and experiences.
We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.
As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women’s staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
* 1st level registration NMC
Desirable criteria
* Degree level
Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Ability to work under pressure and remain calm
* Able to recognise stress in self and others and support colleagues through stressful situations
* Patient focused
Desirable criteria
* Computer literate
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