Staff Nurse - London, United Kingdom - Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Description

Job overview

Acute Admissions Ward

EXPERIENCED BAND 5 NURSE

The Acute Admissions Ward is a 57 bedded, acute medical admissions ward which forms part of the emergency pathway on the emergency floor. We receive acutely unwell patients from the Emergency Department for a wide variety of medical issues including respiratory, endocrine, toxicology, cardiac problems. Patients arrive in the acute phase of their illness and require further assessment and treatment until they are well enough to be discharged home or transfer to another inpatient setting. length of stay is from between a few hours to 3 days.

Good assessment skills and experience in managing acutely unwell patients is preferable. We have a large MDT including Doctors, specialist nurses and teams such as the addictions care team, tissue viability, infection control, psychiatric liaison teams, pharmacy, allied health professionals and critical response teams.

We are proud of our culture of learning, development and succession planning. You should have a commitment to mentoring and professional development and be willing to develop and take part in the multitude of study opportunities that the directorate offers.

If you are interested in becoming a part of our hard working, skilled and friendly team please do apply.

Closing date: 12/05/2024

Interview date: 03/06/2024

Main duties of the job

The admission and assessment of patients arriving from ED and other areas.

implementing care plans for patients in your care including administering medications (including IV medications, infusions and blood products)

Taking patient observations including vital signs, cardiac monitoring, PEFR or spirometry monitoring, neurological observations, fluid balance monitoring etc.

Recognising and responding to the acutely unwell or deteriorating patient including liaising with the critical response team and the medical team to ensure the best outcome for your patient.

Liaising with the wider MDT including our ward based STAT team, Phamacists, medical and specialist teams including clinical nurse specialists such as tissue viability, addictions care team, diabetes nurse specialists etc to ensure that your patient receives the best possible outcome.

As a member of the one of the biggest teaching hospitals in London, you will be expected to supervise and help develop junior staff on the ward including student nurses, newly qualified nurses and nursing assistants.

You will be supported to be nurse in charge of a zone until you are competent in this area.

Working as part of a team. helping other team members and receiving support when required.

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Duties and Responsibilities

Act as a role model, giving guidance, counselling and support to unqualified staff and students.

The post holder is required to follow Trust policies and procedures which are regularly updated including:

Confidentiality / Data Protection / Freedom of Information

Post holders must maintain the confidentiality of information about patients, staff and other health service business in accordance with the Data Protection Act of 2018. Post holders must not, without prior permission, disclose any information regarding patients or staff. If any member of staff has communicated any such information to an unauthorised person, those staff will be liable to disciplinary action up to and including dismissal. Moreover, the Data Protection Act 2018 also renders an individual liable for prosecution in the event of unauthorised disclosure of information.

Following the Freedom of Information Act (FOI) 2000, post holders must apply the Trust's FOI procedure if they receive a written request for information.

Information Governance

All staff must comply with information governance requirements. These includes statutory responsibilities (such as compliance with the Data Protection Act), following national guidance (such as the NHS Confidentiality Code of Practice) and compliance with local policies and procedures (such as the Trust's Confidentiality policy). Staff are responsible for any personal information (belonging to staff or patients) that they access and must ensure it is stored, processed and forwarded in a secure and appropriate manner.

Equal Opportunities

Post holders must at all times fulfil their responsibilities with regard to the Trust's Equal Opportunities Policy and equality laws.

Health and Safety

All post holders have a responsibility, under the Health and Safety at Work Act and subsequently published regulations, to ensure that the Trust's health and safety policies and procedures are complied with to maintain a safe working environment for patients, visitors and employees.

Risk Management

All post holders have a responsibility to report risks such as clinical and non-clinical accidents or incidents promptly. They are expected to be familiar with the Trust's use of risk assessments to predict and control risk, as well as the incident reporting system for learning from mistakes and near misses in order to improve services. Post holders must also attend training identified by their manager, or stated by the Trust to be mandatory.

Safeguarding children and vulnerable adults

Post holders have a general responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their daily duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

Please see attached Job Description for full details.

Person specification

Experience

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Education/ Qualifications

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Skills and Knowledge

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Values and Behaviours

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Guy's and St Thomas' celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study's at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.