Main area Early Pregnancy Assessment Unit (EPAU) Grade Band 5 Contract Permanent: Full-Time Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday-Friday) Job ref 197-RF6663
Employer Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Queen Elizabeth Hospital Town London Salary £29,970 - £36,483 per annum plus HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 27/04/2025 23:59
Staff Nurse
Band 5
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional in the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT 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
Are you a self-motivated, enthusiastic forward-thinking person, able to work under pressure to meet the high demand of our expanding service which is nurse-led unit? If that is you, an exciting opportunity has arisen to join our friendly and supportive team in the Gynaecology services within the women's health services at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust.
Main duties of the job
* Manage patients, prioritising their needs in conjunction with those of the department, to ensure safe and effective care.
* Manage the unit in the absence of Clinical Nurse Specialist, ensuring safe and effective patient care.
* Manage an area of responsibility as required within allocated resources.
Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
* Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development.
* Widening access (anchor institution) and employability.
* Improving the experience of staff with disability.
* Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development.
* Making equalities mainstream.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* Able to triage patients referred from other services including self-referral.
* Able to work as part of the team.
* Being able to assess/plan/implement and evaluate care needs.
* Able to work with minimum supervision.
* Able to perform phlebotomy/cannulation effectively (training can be offered).
* Good time keeper.
* Able to work in a stressful environment.
* Able to have good communication skills.
Person specification
Experience
* Excellent interpersonal skills, both verbal and written.
* Able to formulate and verbalise views.
* Able to anticipate and forward plan.
Qualifications and Training
* Degree level.
Knowledge
* Ability to work under pressure and remain calm in an emergency situation.
* Able to recognise stress in self and others and support colleagues through stressful situations.
* Reflective.
* Able to work with minimal supervision.
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.
Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
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