Staff Nurse - Carshalton, United Kingdom - Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

Description

Job overview

If you would like to joins a friendly, supportive and close knit team the Haematology and Medical Day Units at Epsom and er are for you. We work across site to deliver a variety of treatments to patients with either a Haematological or medical chronic condition. We will train you to give a variety of biological treatments including Systemic Anti Cancer Therapy (SACT).

The expectations within this job description will be met through hands on clinical practice, education and training and research.

If successful you will ensure that high quality nursing care is delivered to all patients and you will support the standards of clinical practice, in conjunction with the multidisciplinary team.

Main duties of the job

An exciting opportunity has arisen for registered nurses to join our very friendly team. We require the applicants to be enthusiastic, motivated and to have good communication skills.

Successful candidates will have a genuine desire to become a part of this team and care for the patients within outpatient infusion unit .

So if you're the kind of person who cares about getting things right and wants to make a difference in a forward thinking team we would love to meet you.

We will offer you opportunities for you to enhance your clinical skills within cancer care and haematology. We will provide support and encouragement to enable you to develop and achieve your full potential.

Working for our organisation

Welcome to the Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust. We offer an extensive range of services, including cancer, pathology, surgery, and gynecology to over 490,000 people in south west London and north east Surrey. We operate two busy general hospitals, Epsom Hospital and St Helier Hospital, and run services from other locations, including Sutton Hospital. We are also part of two innovative integrated care partnerships - Sutton Health and Care and Surrey Downs Health and Care. St Helier Hospital is home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children, while Epsom Hospital is home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC). Both Epsom and St Helier hospitals have Accident and Emergency departments (A&E) and Maternity services (Obstetrics). With nearly 900,000 people coming to our hospitals for care and treatment every year, our almost 5,000 staff and 500 volunteers work around the clock to keep our busy hospitals running smoothly.

As teaching hospitals, we play a key role in the education and training of tomorrow's doctors, nurses and other health professionals. Both sites work in partnership with St George's Hospital and St George's Medical School in south London to deliver high quality education and research.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the Staff Nurse role at Epsom and St Helier Hospital.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

RGN/ Adult Branch nurse.

Desirable criteria

Diploma in Nursing/ Degree or working towards

Experience

Essential criteria

Good basic education and experience in the speciality

Desirable criteria

Band 5 experience

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Knowledge of current clinical and professional nursing issues relating to the specialty

Understanding of Clinical Audit & the principles of Clinical Governance

Desirable criteria

Knowledge and experience of Clinical Audit and Clinical Governance.

Skills

Essential criteria

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Desirable criteria

Experience of using databases

Management

Essential criteria

Ability to work flexibly within an Acute setting.

Desirable criteria

Experience of team or ward management

Your application : Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.

References : You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.

Closing date : In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.

Shortlisting : You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.

DBS : We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

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

NameEvelyn CalayagJob titleUnit ManagerEmail addressTelephone number