Job summary
Join us at our recruitment open day for Staff Nurses. Whether you are an experienced or newly qualified nurse or are currently studying nursing, we'd love you to come along, meet our teams and talk about the various career paths we can support you with.
We have vacancies in Community Nursing, ED and Acute medicine.
To register to attend this event please apply online
Date: Saturday 13th May 2023
Time: 10am-2pm
Venue: Education Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Stadium Road, London, SE18 4QH
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for assessing, planning, delivering and evaluating nursing care with opportunities to increase your skills, knowledge and experience. You must possess excellent interpersonal and organisational skills. We aim for our new team members to develop and take an active role in helping to make improvements on the unit and most importantly, to the care given to our patients.
Supported by the Practice Development team, you will receive a thorough induction and a tailored orientation programme, as well as a period of supernumerary practice. All newly qualified nurses will be offered our accredited preceptorship programme. Continuing professional development and post-registration education is actively encouraged through the provision of in-house study days and courses at the local universities to help build your nursing career.
About us
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is a community focused provider of local and acute care, providing high quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich and Bexley. With a turnover of around £700 million, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham and a range of community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.
As an organisation, we've made significant improvements for patients and staff in the last two and-a-half years. This is reflected in our most recent Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection (from February 2020), which found improvements across the organisation and gave us an improved rating of "Good" in the Well-Led and Effective domains, in addition to the rating of "Good" that we had already achieved in the Caring domain. Our staff culture change programme has been key to the Trust's improvement journey, as we've stabilised our workforce by reducing vacancy rates and improving staff retention. We've also significantly increased the representation of minority ethnic leaders across our clinical and corporate teams.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Result Areas & Performance:
- Act as a Named Nurse within a Team taking responsibility, over an appropriate span of time, in conjunction with the Ward Manager and the multidisciplinary team, for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care from admission to discharge within the community.
- Be aware of current advances in clinical care and be able to facilitate the team members in implementation of evidence-based practice.
- Take an active role in the continuing development and use of protocols and standards for nursing care.
- Participate in evaluation, audit, and research of nursing care, and incorporate appropriate findings into practice.
- Actively work to promote health and prevent ill health in staff, patients and their relatives.
- Promote and maintain a safe and pleasant environment for patients, visitors, and colleagues.
- Check the readiness for use of emergency/special equipment and ensure all equipment in use, is in good working order.
- Have knowledge of recording relevant patient/nursing data on to computer.
- Ensure his/her own and junior staffs compliance with the NMC Guidelines for Records and Record Keeping (1998) in all settings.
- Accept responsibility for the administration, care, and custody of medicines, in accordance with legal requirements and NMC and Trust Guidelines on drug administration.
- Attend mandatory annual updates in fire training, basic life support and maintain knowledge of relevant policies.
- Have knowledge and understanding of all relevant Trust policies, including the Major Incident Plan, ensuring that junior colleagues are aware of such policies.
- Have knowledge of and adhere to relevant parts of national legislation, including Health and Safety at Work Act, COSHH Regulations, and Moving and Handling Regulations.
- Transport people and/or items safely and to time consistent with legislation, policies and procedures.
- Ensure all biomedical investigations and interventions are undertaken safely and in a timely manner, reporting and documenting results appropriately and in line with legislation, policies and procedures.
Work force
- Manage a group of patients, prioritising their needs in conjunction with those of the ward/department, to ensure safe and effective care.
- Manage the ward in the absence of senior staff, ensuring safe and effective patient care.
- Manage an area of responsibility as required within allocated resources.
Financial
- Have an understanding of ward/department budgets and how the division may become more cost-effective. Work within budgetary requirements whilst maintaining standards of care.
- Participate in the management of skill mix issues, stock control, and available resources.
Partnerships
- Take an active role in developing and maintaining effective communication with members of the interprofessional team, patients, and relatives about difficult matters in difficult situations.
General
- Participate in the orientation of new members of staff within their division. Attend relevant meetings and participate in discussions relating to the improvement of the service.
- Act as a change agent where necessary.
- Ensure all Trust Nursing policies and procedures are adhered to.
- Be aware of operational personnel issues relevant to the directorate including management of absence and sickness, disciplinary and recruitment matters.
- Where necessary, and with support, investigate the nursing aspect of complaints and clinical incidents, and initiate corrective actions.
- Ensure own continuing professional development and identify own Personal Development Plan.
- Participate in the clinical and educational development of other staff within the team.
- Act as a supervisor/ mentor for learners, and as preceptor for newly qualified registered nurses.
- Act as a clinical role model for all levels of staff.
- Encourage other staff to keep abreast of new developments and encourage the exchange of information, ideas and experiences.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Result Areas & Performance:
- Act as a Named Nurse within a Team taking responsibility, over an appropriate span of time, in conjunction with the Ward Manager and the multidisciplinary team, for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care from admission to discharge within the community.
- Be aware of current advances in clinical care and be able to facilitate the team members in implementation of evidence-based practice.
- Take an active role in the continuing development and use of protocols and standards for nursing care.
- Participate in evaluation, audit, and research of nursing care, and incorporate appropriate findings into practice.
- Actively work to promote health and prevent ill health in staff, patients and their relatives.
- Promote and maintain a safe and pleasant environment for patients, visitors, and colleagues.
- Check the readiness for use of emergency/special equipment and ensure all equipment in use, is in good working order.
- Have knowledge of recording relevant patient/nursing data on to computer.
- Ensure his/her own and junior staffs compliance with the NMC Guidelines for Records and Record Keeping (1998) in all settings.
- Accept responsibility for the administration, care, and custody of medicines, in accordance with legal requirements and NMC and Trust Guidelines on drug administration.
- Attend mandatory annual updates in fire training, basic life support and maintain knowledge of relevant policies.
- Have knowledge and understanding of all relevant Trust policies, including the Major Incident Plan, ensuring that junior colleagues are aware of such policies.
- Have knowledge of and adhere to relevant parts of national legislation, including Health and Safety at Work Act, COSHH Regulations, and Moving and Handling Regulations.
- Transport people and/or items safely and to time consistent with legislation, policies and procedures.
- Ensure all biomedical investigations and interventions are undertaken safely and in a timely manner, reporting and documenting results appropriately and in line with legislation, policies and procedures.
Work force
- Manage a group of patients, prioritising their needs in conjunction with those of the ward/department, to ensure safe and effective care.
- Manage the ward in the absence of senior staff, ensuring safe and effective patient care.
- Manage an area of responsibility as required within allocated resources.
Financial
- Have an understanding of ward/department budgets and how the division may become more cost-effective. Work within budgetary requirements whilst maintaining standards of care.
- Participate in the management of skill mix issues, stock control, and available resources.
Partnerships
- Take an active role in developing and maintaining effective communication with members of the interprofessional team, patients, and relatives about difficult matters in difficult situations.
General
- Participate in the orientation of new members of staff within their division. Attend relevant meetings and participate in discussions relating to the improvement of the service.
- Act as a change agent where necessary.
- Ensure all Trust Nursing policies and procedures are adhered to.
- Be aware of operational personnel issues relevant to the directorate including management of absence and sickness, disciplinary and recruitment matters.
- Where necessary, and with support, investigate the nursing aspect of complaints and clinical incidents, and initiate corrective actions.
- Ensure own continuing professional development and identify own Personal Development Plan.
- Participate in the clinical and educational development of other staff within the team.
- Act as a supervisor/ mentor for learners, and as preceptor for newly qualified registered nurses.
- Act as a clinical role model for all levels of staff.
- Encourage other staff to keep abreast of new developments and encourage the exchange of information, ideas and experiences.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- 1st level registration NMC
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- 1st level registration NMC
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
