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Job summary

Main area
Nursing
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 5
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (LD, nights, weekends)
Job ref
196-NM11745
Employer
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Harefield Hospital
Town
UXBRIDGE
Salary
£32,720 - £39,769 per annum Inc Outer HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
Today at 23:59
Interview date
11/07/2024

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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust logo

Staff Nurse - Transplant Unit Harefield Hospital

NHS AfC: Band 5

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.

Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions. 

Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.

The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.



Job overview

This advert is open to all applicants with an active Nursing and Midwifery Council Personal Identification number (PIN) (this refers to an NMC Pin identification that allows you to work as a registered nurse/midwife in the UK. This does not include the personal reference number (PRN) when you apply pre-OSCE application).If you have a PRN number only, please do not apply for this post.

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Are you looking for a new challenge in a supportive and exciting clinical setting? If so, why don’t you come and join us on the Transplant Unit at Harefield Hospital.

The Transplant unit consists of two wards, Rowan and Fir Tree and includes a High Dependency Unit. We care for patients undergoing pre assessment for heart and lung transplants, patients post transplant surgery and those patients undergoing ventricular assist device (VAD) insertion.

The unit has two Practice Educators who provide excellent support and training. Each member of staff benefits from in-house training days and has the opportunity to attend our Transplant course as well as apply for post graduate courses. The ward also benefits from input from specialist nurses, who are an excellent source of information as you develop your knowledge and skills.

 Cardiothoracic experience is not required as there will be opportunity to gain skills and knowledge under the guidance of our Practice Education team and your ward mentor.

Hours of work are weekdays/nights/weekends, day and night shifts.

This is a great opportunity to develop your clinical experience and skills. As a band 5 staff nurse you will have the opportunity to provide specialist care to patients with a variety of cardiac conditions and respiratory conditions.

 

 Advert closing: 3rd July 2024

Interview date: 11th July 2024

Main duties of the job

We need enthusiastic, open-minded nurses who are keen to work at the leading edge of cardiothoracic practice. If you want to be a part of an exceptional team, and you are a caring individual with the ability to communicate and work effectively within a team, please submit an application.

Day to day you will be working as part of the clinical teams delivering care to cardiothoracic transplant patients in conjunction with members of the multidisciplinary team.

Working for our organisation

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation. We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark. We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.

Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ in February 2021 and is the largest specialist heart and lung centre in the UK and among the largest in Europe.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Band 5 staff nurse working as part of the clinical team providing direct patient care for in a cardiothoracic hospital.

*Please see Job Description and Person Specification for more details*

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • • Registered Nurse with Active NMC registration

Experience

Essential criteria
  • • Ability to practice within the scope of the NMC Code of Professional Conduct
Desirable criteria
  • placements in acute clinical areas

Skills

Essential criteria
  • • Good basic level of English and excellent verbal communication skills

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
helen Doyle
Job title
Matron
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01895823737
Additional information

extension 85450 or 07977165278

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