Job summary
Registered Nurse - UGI Team
37.5 hours per week
10 months secondment
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum pro rata (dependant on experience)
Closing Date: 16th May 2025
Interview Date: 23rd May 2025
**This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly. **
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Main duties of the job
Responsible for the assessment, planning implementation and evaluation of nursing care for a specified group of patients as delegated by senior nursing staff, involving patients and carers where appropriate.
Acts as a team leader, delegating appropriate tasks and supervising the standard of care delivered by unqualified staff and learner nurses in the ward team.
- Deliver a high standard of nursing care without direct supervision, based upon a sound evidence base.
- Undertakes and documents a comprehensive, systematic and accurate nursing assessment of the physical, social and spiritual needs of the patient where appropriate.
- Creates and utilizes opportunities to promote health and well-being of patients in their care.
- Manage a group of patients throughout a shift as delegated by nurse in charge.
- Working within the N.M.C Guidelines and Trust Policies recognising one's own abilities and limitations
- In the absence of senior colleagues manages the Ward/Department on occasions without direct supervision when competent to do so
- Use computerised systems to support the provision of patient care and treatment
- Work within Clinical Governance Standards and Trust Policies
- Ensure that concerns and complaints from patients, visitors or colleagues are resolved where possible and reported to the Ward Sister/Charge Nurse
- To be conversant with all Trust Emergency Procedures
- Comply with Trust Manual Handling Policy
About us
Here at George Eliot our vision to 'excel at patient care' taking centre stage. An ever evolving clinically- led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive health services delivered by inspiring and compassionate staff who share our corporate values:
Effective open communication
Excellence and safety in everything we do
Challenge but support
Expect respect and dignity
Local health that inspires confidence
Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, extensive in-house course learning directory, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Support UGI CNS team
- Supports the teams with caseload on an ongoing basis
- Provides advice in relation to the care of individual or groups of patients
- Responsible for the effective management of allocated resources
- Responsible for procurement and maintenance of physical assets and supplies for the service
- Demonstrates a commitment to best practice and relevant knowledge of the NHS and modernisation agenda, seeking to develop the service as part of the professional team
- Networking with professional colleagues to maximise the opportunities of promoting the Trust and benchmarking practice with peers
- Involvement in clinical audit
- 25 Appropriateness & timeliness of urgent suspect cancer referrals.Assist in the gathering of information for ongoing audit projects
- Responsible for ensuring that all patients have a key worker
- Support patients pathway
- Monitoring of MDT standards in conjunction with MDT co-ordinator.
- Implementing evidence-based practice
For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Support UGI CNS team
- Supports the teams with caseload on an ongoing basis
- Provides advice in relation to the care of individual or groups of patients
- Responsible for the effective management of allocated resources
- Responsible for procurement and maintenance of physical assets and supplies for the service
- Demonstrates a commitment to best practice and relevant knowledge of the NHS and modernisation agenda, seeking to develop the service as part of the professional team
- Networking with professional colleagues to maximise the opportunities of promoting the Trust and benchmarking practice with peers
- Involvement in clinical audit
- 25 Appropriateness & timeliness of urgent suspect cancer referrals.Assist in the gathering of information for ongoing audit projects
- Responsible for ensuring that all patients have a key worker
- Support patients pathway
- Monitoring of MDT standards in conjunction with MDT co-ordinator.
- Implementing evidence-based practice
For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.
Person Specification
Essential and Desirable
Essential
- Degree in relevant subject or willingness to undertake
- Demonstrates the use of evidence based practice in the implementation of change
- Professional at all times
- An understanding of current issues relating to the NHS and cancer care
- Current Professional Registration
- Evidence of CPD
- Motivated and able to motivate others
- Calm and objective
- Approachable
- Good interpersonal skills
- Have a confident approach and the ability to inspire confidence
- Flexible team member
- Able to deal with difficult/sensitive issues
- Demonstrates the awareness and impact of clinical governance
- Critical analytical skills
- Undertake wide experience during training in an acute setting
- Knowledge and application of NMC Code of Conduct
- Able to demonstrate clinical knowledge, skills and expertise
- A knowledgeable with the ability to apply evidence based practice
- Knowledge of professional policies and procedures
- Good understanding of IT and technology
- Able to prioritise and meet deadlines effectively
- Good management of own and others time
- Able to use initiative and make decisions
- Effective Open Communication
- Excellence and safety in all that we do
- Challenge but support
- Expect respect and dignity
- Local healthcare that inspires confident
Desirable
- Teaching and assessing qualification
- Evidence of Research or Clinical Audit
Person Specification
Essential and Desirable
Essential
- Degree in relevant subject or willingness to undertake
- Demonstrates the use of evidence based practice in the implementation of change
- Professional at all times
- An understanding of current issues relating to the NHS and cancer care
- Current Professional Registration
- Evidence of CPD
- Motivated and able to motivate others
- Calm and objective
- Approachable
- Good interpersonal skills
- Have a confident approach and the ability to inspire confidence
- Flexible team member
- Able to deal with difficult/sensitive issues
- Demonstrates the awareness and impact of clinical governance
- Critical analytical skills
- Undertake wide experience during training in an acute setting
- Knowledge and application of NMC Code of Conduct
- Able to demonstrate clinical knowledge, skills and expertise
- A knowledgeable with the ability to apply evidence based practice
- Knowledge of professional policies and procedures
- Good understanding of IT and technology
- Able to prioritise and meet deadlines effectively
- Good management of own and others time
- Able to use initiative and make decisions
- Effective Open Communication
- Excellence and safety in all that we do
- Challenge but support
- Expect respect and dignity
- Local healthcare that inspires confident
Desirable
- Teaching and assessing qualification
- Evidence of Research or Clinical Audit
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).
