Stoma Nurse - London, United Kingdom - University College London Hospitals

Description

Job overview

The Colorectal Stoma Care Nursing Department is looking for a nurse with post registration experience in surgery to support patients with stomas.

The Stoma Care Nurse Specialist role is for a 1 year secondment at Band 6 with opportunities for career progression and relevant, specialist study.

This is a great opportunity to gain practical and clinical skills in caring for patients with ileostomies, colostomies and complex fistulas. At the same time, you will gain excellent experience working at a higher, more specialised level within a supportive and dynamic team.

The current post-holder is going on a 12 month secondment, hence the need for this post. Although it is currently for 12 months only, you will be well supported and trained and developed within this specialist service.

The post-holder will work Monday to Friday and although a degree of flexible working can be supported, the post holder will be expected to work on site due to the need to physically see patients on the ward, in clinic and pre operatively.

Main duties of the job

The role encompasses seeing patients in clinic before their stoma formation to support and educate, siting the stoma immediately pre operatively, supporting and training the patient on stoma care post formation and provide ongoing advice and guidance.

You should have an interest in this speciality and be able to communicate sensitively with patients and their families during, what can, a life changing operation.

You will care for patients with long term conditions as well as patients going through cancer treatment. This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your skills within a specialist service, whilst being able to deliver true person-centred care

Working for our organisation

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.

We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:

We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women's health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.

We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.