Deputy Ward Sister- Esther Ward - London, United Kingdom - Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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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.

Esther Ward is a 24 bedded Multi-specialty ward comprising of bays and side rooms. Esther ward is an excellent place to develop your Surgical, Thoracic, ENT and Head & Neck skills.

The ward admits and looks after patients having elective surgery under Head & Neck, ENT and Thoracic as well as emergency admissions from clinic and A&E across Oncology, Haematology, Sickle Cell and Medical Oncology.

Please note:

We do not currently deliver chemotherapy on Esther wards and therefore this is not a learning opportunity we can offer.

We do however support patients through their treatment and associated side effects.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Closing date: 07/12/2023

Interview date: 13/12/2023

The clinical environment offers the opportunity to learn and practice a wide range of skills across a very varied caseload of patients with the support of an experienced multi-specialty nursing team.

The ward offers an internal specific competency programme, 10 study days per year and a link role to which specific study days and learning opportunities are available.

The senior nursing team are very supportive and friendly and will encourage you to develop your nursing and leadership skills.

The wards encompass the Trusts objectives and standards of care and staff are very passionate at maintaining these standards and are always looking at ways to better patient experience.

The ward has excellent patient feedback and the nurses are very proud of the care that is delivered.

We are looking for enthusiastic, caring and compassionate nurses who are willing to learn new skills, reflect on feedback and be part of our excellent team.

This is an excellent opportunity if you are looking for development opportunities

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.

Independently manage a group of patients within the specialty whilst
working as part of the multidisciplinary team, delivering individualised and
personalised direct patient care

Is wholly accountable for his / her practice in line with the NMC code of professional conduct and takes every reasonable opportunity to sustain and improve his / her knowledge and professional competence.

To be an effective communicator with patients/carers/families regarding disease treatment and management.

Demonstrate appropriate practice and specialist advice in the assessment,
planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care. This includes
history taking, physical examination and the requesting of agreed
diagnostic procedures/clinical investigations.

Undertake prescribed physical observations as follows: blood pressure, temperature, respirations, blood sugars, urinalysis, weight and height, drain monitoring including measurement and report exceptions appropriates.

Responsible for the correct administration of prescribed medication via oral, enteral and IV routes including transfusion of blood and blood products

Be responsible for assessing and recognising emergencies in the
specialty. To interpret information and take appropriate action and to lead
others to do the same.

Work alongside the multi-disciplinary team to ascertain treatments and advise on nursing priorities.

Ensure safe and effective care for complex patients requiring advance clinical skills and responsible for carrying out specialist nursing procedures to area.

Complete evidenced based interventions including enteral feeding line care, IV line care, complex dressings and wound management, pre and post-operative care relevant to specialties.