Job summary
- Main area
- Private Patients
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-PHC-049
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hammersmith Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £35,964 - £43,780 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/11/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Staff Nurse
Band 5
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
Are you looking to join a friendly and supportive multidisciplinary team? If so, an exciting opportunity has arisen for a band 5 nurse at The Sainsbury Wing; a dedicated private facility within Hammersmith Hospital.
The Sainsbury wing is a 26 bedded mixed speciality area which includes haematology, hepatobiliary, gynaecology, cardiology, cardiothoracic and upper GI, with an ambulatory care unit and an outpatient department. We care for patients undergoing complex surgeries, out-patient chemotherapy and we manage patients’ symptoms caused by their treatment or cancer.
About you:
•Proactive with a desire to continuously improve patient experience and deliver high quality, patient centred care.
•Enthusiastic and highly-motivated.
•Excellent communications skills and the ability to demonstrate a professional and sensitive manner with patients.
•Ability to maintain accurate electronic records.
Benefits we offer:
•Join an established team of experienced nurses and allied health professionals.
•Excellent educational development opportunities.
•The opportunity to work across a broad range of specialities with a diverse patient group.
•All NHS staff benefits including a generous pension scheme, staff accommodation, on-site nurseries, a childcare voucher scheme, season ticket loans, on-site gym facilities, a cycle to work scheme and a host
of high street discounts.
This post is a permanent full time position working with a mixed roster of long days and night shifts.
Main duties of the job
• To provide high quality, effective, individualised care to all patients that is compassionate and caring
• To assess care needs and develop, implement and evaluate them without supervision
• To keep up to date with skills and knowledge
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview. .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse
Desirable criteria
- Experience in healthcare
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous experience of a speciality
Desirable criteria
- Previous Cardiology, Cardiothoracic, upper GI or renal background
Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of quality, standard setting and audit
- Awareness of current developments in nursing
- Knowledge of the NMC Code of Conduct
- Teaching
- Ability to organise ward activities and to use initiative
- Ability to solve problems and contribute new ideas
- Competency in medication
- Skills required to undertake clinical activity related to speciality
- Basic IT skills
Desirable criteria
- Cannulation and venepuncture
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Esther Dezeure
- Job title
- Ward manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0203 31 31443
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