Senior Staff Nurse - Intensive Care Unit / Cross Site

Job summary

We are recruiting for experienced band 6 nurses with 6 months experience following completion of their critical care course to join the Critical Care Team based at Northwick Park Hospital, London North West Healthcare NHS Trust.

The Critical Care Unit consists of a 24 bedded Intensive Care Unit. This a unique opportunity for a qualified candidate and an individual with a Critical Care Nursing Course to join the expanding and developing team within Critical Care. Additional to Northwick Park we also support a 12 bedded ICU on our Ealing site and an 8 bedded Enhanced Care Unit at Central Middlesex. You may at times be required to support one of these units.

As a Critical Care Unit we specialise in providing a high standard of medical and post-operative care for patients undergoing a variety of procedures and interventions. Emergency admissions are via our busy Accident and Emergency, one of the busiest units in the country. The majority of our admissions have multiple and diverse care requirements that necessitate advanced organ support such as respiratory, renal and cardiovascular interventions and treatments.

We work closely with the multiple specialities within the Trust including St Marks, with our Local Critical Care Network and National units.

Main duties of the job

Provides direct clinical care to critically ill adults within Critical Care across the trust.

Will be developing specialist skills in the care of critically ill patient toinclude assessment, delivery and evaluation of care. May take directresponsibility for a patient or be supervising the work of other nurses.

Ensures the implementation of protocols and practice guidelines withinown nursing practice. Facilitating the delivery of high quality evidencebased care while working in close relationship with the MDT.

Will assist the PDNs and Team Leaders (TL) by acting as coach andmentor to named nurses, IENs, students or other health care workers (HCW) attached to the Unit. As a senior staff nurse you will be required to support the wider team with formal and informal teaching, developing their skills and knowledge to ensure the highest standards of patient care.

About us

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

We run major acute services at:

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.