In Service Haemodialysis Training Nurse

Job summary

The post will be based within the haemodialysis units where the post holder will be responsible for ensuring that a robust competency-based training & development program for new and existing staff is designed to ensure staff take responsibility for individualised patient care on the haemodialysis units.

To ensure that on completion of the basic dialysis training programme for staff new to haemodialysis that the care giver is competent to provide dialysis treatments in a safe manner, for instance but not exclusively:- knowledge of kidney failure- knowledge of how a haemodialysis machine works- knowledge of the principles of haemodialysis

Main duties of the job

To be responsible for the training and development programs for staff who are new to haemodialysis; to introduce new members to the theoretical and practical skills required to competently participate in the delivery of renal replacement therapy in a safe and supported teaching environment so that staff can participate in the assistance or provision of safe, effective; evidence-based practice to patients undergoing haemodialysis treatment at St Georges Hospital.To ensure considerable contact time, teaching and support to take new staff through the different stages of knowledge and skill until clinical and theoretical competence is achieved within a four-week period.To ensure that staff competency is assessed before the learner works unsupervised and that mentorship support is provided on completion of the training program.To guide and actively encourage staff through the different stages of their professional development in caring for patients undergoing long term treatment

About us

With nearly9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.Their main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.