Band 5 RN Admission and Discharge - Bank

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Admissions and discharge Lounge is a very busy, fast paced environment requiring a high level of physical health and ability.

You will work as part of the Multidisciplinary team ensuring our patients are prepared safely for theatre and receive high standards of care from the very start.

Within the Admissions/Discharge Loungeyourrole would include nurse ledadmissions, preparing your caseload of patients for surgery with the support of the Healthcare Assistants, and receiving day case patients post operativelyfor dischargeunderaNurse ledpathway. Duties would also include, but not limited to attending surgical dressings if needing replacing before discharge, issuing of pharmacy prepared medications and providing patients with administration information,ensuring the patients have any post surgery follow upappointments booked by the admin staff before discharge, providing post op care and advise as documented by the surgical team, escorting patients to the front of the hospital for pick up or to the transport lounge, attending to phone enquiries.

Our service runs from 07:00am until 9pm 5 days a week. The successful candidate will work 3- 4 days/week on a varied shift roster pattern of short and long days, early and late starts, no nights, and may be required to work a weekend day adhoc, but this is very infrequent as the service is currently a 9-5 service.

Experience, Skills & Abilities looking for;

• Registered Nurse
• Word processing / IT skills
• Surgical Day surgery experience
• Surgical Admissions/Discharge experience
• Teamand Independent working
• Effective time management
• Ability to problem solve and to use own initiative
• Ability to perform clinical activities
• Ability to assist/support HCAs
• Appropriate knowledge of pharmacology.
• Knowledge of NMC Code of Professional Conduct
• Demonstrate excellent ability to speak and understand English
• Articulate with written and oral communication skills.
• General good health sufficient to fulfil the physical demands and duties of the post
• Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Registered Nurse
• Word processing / IT skills
• Surgical Day surgery experience
• Surgical Admissions/Discharge experience
• Team and Independent working
• Effective time management
• Ability to problem solve and to use own initiative
• Ability to perform clinical activities
• Ability to assist/support HCAs
• Appropriate knowledge of pharmacology.
• Knowledge of NMC Code of Professional Conduct
• Demonstrate excellent ability to speak and understand English
• Articulate with written and oral communication skills.
• General good health sufficient to fulfil the physical demands and duties of the post
• Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Address

Charing Cross Hospital

Fulham Palace Road

London

W6 8RF

Employer's website

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