Nursing

Description

Complex wound assessment and treatment.

Providing evidence based relevant information for patients and their family members both verbally and in writing, based on an individual assessment of the patient personal and health care needs.

Working in the outpatient setting.

Teaching colleagues.

Involvement in change and development within a multi-disciplinary team.

Audit and evaluation.

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in dealing with complex and sensitive information with patients, their relatives and colleagues.

Description

• To provide clear and effective leadership
• To participate in assessment, planning and delivery of direct patient care for patients requiring the services of the pain clinic
• To be fully accountable and responsible for shift management.
• Manage see and treat environment safely, ensure safe and effective practice at all times from all key personnel working within that area.
• To work in collaboration with the Clinical Matron to ensure the delivery of high quality of evidence-based patient care, and to encourage and develop a flexible work force through the efficient use of facilities, manpower and other resources.
• To initiate, promote and maintain high standards of practice within the team in line with departmental requirements.
• To provide clinical expertise both on shift and when representing the department.
• To manage all resources effectively and within budget parameters.
• To actively participate in audit.
• To identify areas of clinical need and to assist in changing practice to meet service

Description

• Coordinating the flow of patients though Medical SDEC on a daily basis.
• Supervising, teaching and managing performance of the nursing team.
• Completing e-rosters
• Deputising for the unit manager in their absence 
• Completing staff appraisals
• Completing audits and implementing quality improvement projects
• Investigating complaints and incidents, identifying and actioning improvement initiates.
• Communicating and celebrating achievements with staff. 

Description

Working as a Healthcare Support Worker, you will be involved with direct patient care whilst maintaining the privacy and dignity of patients. You will be working alongside a Registered Nurse to provide essential nursing care and helping your patients with daily living tasks such as:

• helping patients feel comfortable and move around 
• monitoring patients and performing basic health checks
• washing, dressing patients and helping them go to the toilet
• serving meals and helping to feed patients

Upon successful completion of clinical skills training, once you are a Senior Healthcare Support Worker, you will also be expected to carry out a range of clinical duties with minimal / no supervision, including:

• blood pressure monitoring
• oxygen saturation levels
• body temperature
• pulse rate and respiration rate
• glucose monitoring
• wound swab
• collection and testing of urine, faecal and sputum samples

Whilst completing these tasks, the underlining aim is to deliver high-quality patient care at all times.

Description

As a Bank Nurse, your responsibilities will include :  

• Supporting all clinical areas of the Trust as and when required.  
• Taking personal responsibility and accountability for ensuring that Trust and local policies and procedures are known and followed and ensuring duties are carried out in accordance with the advisory guidelines and practice set out in the NMC code.
• Being responsible for assessment, planning, Implementation and Evaluation of patient care.
• Taking responsibility for the supervision and guidance of other staff including health care assistants and students as required.

Applicants must:  

• Hold RN (Adult or Paediatric) registration with current NMC license to practice 
• Have relevant experience within the last 18-24 months - newly qualified staff require 15 months post qualification experience (3 months preceptorship and 12 months appropriate experience
• Have a drive to work hard, enthusiasm and the ability to commit to a 4-day induction programme if successful 
• Have right to work in UK (with relevant Adaptation/ONP if applicable) 
• Have the ability to commence work within 3 months from offer 

Description

• Triage incoming calls, using a risk assessment framework and initiate appropriate response according to protocols and individual pathways, using good communication skills, basic clinical awareness and appropriate tools and procedures, liaising as appropriate when non routine and refer complex decisions to the team for assessment and review.
• Provide telephone advice and refer on or sign-post to other sources of support
• Provide support to patients in the clinic setting
• Assist the pleural clinical team with pleural outpatient clinics, such as supporting pleural procedures
• Coordinate the necessary assessments, appointments or investigations to fast track people back into the system if required
• Demonstrate the ability to recognise and respond appropriately when faced with a sudden deterioration or an emergency situation, alerting the team or enabling rapid response as appropriate
• Support information provision and signpost as appropriate
• Guide people through the use of self-assessment resources
• Document and monitor all aspects of care coordination and service delivery, supporting data collection for audit

Description

The post holder will lead the team in:

• Line management of team
• Clinical trial set up in line with regulatory requirements
• Clinical trial running - ensure the smooth delivery of research studies within the team
• Study end - support the team to close out studies 
• Resource management - staff, resource, financial and risk management
• Education - ensure own training needs and those of the team are addressed
• Strategic Role - forward planning of team workload and finances.
• Team budgetary management