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    Community Specialist Health Nurse - London, United Kingdom - Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

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    Band 6 Senior Staff Nurse - Specialist Respiratory Weaning and Rehabilitation Unit


    If you are looking for a challenge and have an interest in specialist respiratory medicine, then we are the place for you.

    Would you like to develop your knowledge and skills within Respiratory Weaning and Rehabilitation? If so we have vacancies for Band 6 Senior Staff Nurses on Lane Fox Respiratory Unit.

    The Lane Fox Respiratory Unit is the largest weaning and home mechanical ventilation centre in the UK.

    We provide management and long term follow up for patients with chronic respiratory disease such as COPD and neuro-muscular diseases.

    The Lane Fox Respiratory Unit also offers specialist nurse lead clinics and a home ventilation service for assessing and advising patients with chronic respiratory illness.


    We welcome you to contact us to find out more about the role and would be happy to show you around the unit and answer any questions you may have.


    Please note to be considered for this vacancy you must have completed a critical care course and either have your results or be waiting for your results to be processed.

    Should you be successful at interview and you are unable to provide the recruiting manger with confirmation of a successfully competed critical care course within 2 months of being interviewed then your offer will be withdrawn

    Our unique, purpose built 14 bedded unit delivers highly quality specialised respiratory care to complex level 2 and level 3 patients including:

    Tracheostomy management and mechanical ventilation
    Weaning from invasive mechanical ventilation
    High Flow oxygen therapy

    If you share our vision to help patients with respiratory failure to live independently this is the perfect job for you.


    We welcome applicants with a willingness to learn, that thrive under pressure and have the ability to adapt and refine their skills according to the demands of the unit.

    You MUST have a post registration critical care qualification (ITU / HDU) and significant experience in an ITU / HDU/Respiratory settings.


    We can offer you a personalised induction programme with supervision and support from our dedicated practice development team and one to one support from the senior nursing team.

    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.


    We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally.

    We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS

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

    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.

    Ensure that patients receive high quality clinical care and a good patient experience, having regard for their customs, religious beliefs and doctrines.

    To provide leadership, support and guidance to staff in monitoring the planning delivery and evaluation of individualised 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.

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

    Ensure staff take precautions to minimise the risk of cross infection in relation to the safe disposal of body fluids (including blood).

    Facilitate a high quality, cost effective specialist service through monitoring and audit and other quality initiatives agreed by the Trust.

    Ensure that the learning environment and specialist training is appropriate for both pre and post registration learners and participate in the development of appropriate programmes.

    To act as mentor/assessor to unqualified staff and to provide education, advice and support to a team of nurses.

    Utilise research findings in the delivery of specialist patient care, developing new ways of working and to disseminate relevant information to staff.

    Organise own work and manage own caseload and practice, identifying and maintaining supportive networks for self and other staff members.

    Take an active role in risk assessment, supporting implementation of strategies to minimise risk. To create an environment that fosters good communication between patient and health care professionals, that meets individuals needs.

    RN1/ RN2/ RN12 or RN Child Registered Nurse on the NMC register. BSC/1st degree (health related) or equivalent qualification/training and experience
    Supervision of junior staff
    Experience of co-ordinating a shift

    Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate specialist care delivered to patients/clients and give relevant advice/information to patients and relatives
    An understanding of audit and research based nursing practice
    To include dealing with distressed relatives, care of terminally ill & other challenging situation
    Demonstrate an awareness of clinical governance and risk management and how this effects their role and the department

    Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
    Lane Fox Unit, St.
    Thomas Hospital

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