Bank Staff Nurse: Emergency Department (A&E)

Job summary

As a bank Emergency Department registered nurse, you will need extensive experience and the skills to provide care to adults with acute health needs in the emergency department. You be accountable and responsible for providing a high standard of patient centred care. To carry out care without direct supervision as part of the Emergency Department team. To communicate effectively within the multidisciplinary team. Contribute towards the effective running of the department including patient safe and timely care.

Main duties of the job

Key Performance Areas

Provision of specialist, high quality nursing care and support for adult patients and their relatives/carers

Appropriate delegation of duties to other members of staff for effective delivery of patient care

To provide timely nurse led interventions for the benefit of the patients care.

To assess, plan implement and evaluate care of patients from admission to discharge.

To be part of the effective admission / transfer / discharge of a patient involving the family, carers, significant other, multidisciplinary team and community teams when appropriate

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 Marys Hospital in Sidcup.

The Trust has 7,500 staff and we have recently invested in our workforce to grow our establishment across a number of key services. In 2020 we won a London NHS Parliamentary Award in recognition of a wide range of initiatives to make the organisation a great place to work. We are accredited as a flexible working employer offering a number of flexible working options for staff. We are also accredited as a London Living Wage employer for our substantive, bank and contractors

Employer details

Employer name

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

Address

Lewisham Hospital Nhs Trust

Lewisham High Street

London

SE13 6LH

Employer's website

https://www.lewishamandgreenwich.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

---

Employer details

Employer name

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

Address

Lewisham Hospital Nhs Trust

Lewisham High Street

London

SE13 6LH

Employer's website

https://www.lewishamandgreenwich.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

---