Job summary
We are looking for an enthusiastic and innovative team player to join the Private Patients Unit at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
This is an exciting opportunity for a talented individual with multiple skills and an appetite for delivering a first class service to join the team in one of the UKs most successful and progressive NHS Foundation Trusts.
The private patients unit is a dedicated inpatient facility consisting of 12 ensuite rooms, with newly refurbished day case pods in the Chelsea Wing and also an Outpatients Unit, Westminster Wing. The Chelsea Wing provides care for patients from a wide range of specialities including gynaecology, general surgery, bariatric, orthopaedic, plastic surgery and finally specialist medicine and oncology.
The private patient unit is embedded at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital alongside our NHS services and, because of this; we retain strong links with NHS nursing leadership and development. All of the staff who work within the private patients unit are employed by the NHS.
You will gain a vast clinical knowledge and understand a broad range of acute/complex medical and surgical conditions, and associated co-morbidities.
Most of all, you will be able to motivate and engage others to ensure that the services we provide supports the Trust's values, as well as having a pioneering approach that is not afraid to challenge convention and traditional ways of working.
Main duties of the job
The Staff Nurse will:
Provide high quality clinical care to patients, in line with the Trust values and in accordance with professional regulations.
Accept delegated responsibility for specific activities/areas from the senior nurse in charge
Work in line with Trust policies, objectives, protocols and local guidelines, whilst also being aware of the importance of their role in supporting members of the team, and always adhering to the Trust values, and in accordance with NMC regulations.
Work autonomously and with others to always deliver high standards of care to patients and their carers, autonomously and as part of a team.
Communicate in line with Trust values, to patients, carers and staff at all times.
Take every opportunity to continue to develop, practice and expand their own general and specialist nursing skills.
Maintain high standards of professional and ethical responsibility, and accountability and be aware of the medico-legal aspects of nursing, in line with professional, regulating and local guidance.
About us
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is proud to be one of the top performing and safest trusts in England. We have two main acute hospital sites--Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, plus our award-winning clinics across North West London and beyond.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical
- Assess, plan, implement and evaluate individualised patient care through appropriate frameworks, including safe effective arrangements for discharge, underpinned by Trust values.
- Assist members of the team in the co-ordination of the clinical activities
- Use clinical standards to participate in the process of monitoring the quality of care delivered. Act to ensure that nursing practice is of the highest standard, in line with Trust and CQC standards.
- Supply and/or administer medication safely in line with Trust medicines policy
Professional
- Maintain a professional behaviour at all times and promote a positive image of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust at all times, in line with Trust values.
- Contribute to a high quality safe working environment in which patients receive a high standard of care
- Participate in the setting of standards for nursing practice and for care involving the multi-disciplinary team
- Practice in accordance with, and aware of his/her responsibilities under, the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and other appropriate NMC guideline
Education and Development
- Be responsible for, and demonstrate personal professional development, maintain up to date clinical skills and ensure mandatory training is always current.
- Be aware of current developments within the nursing profession and within the NHS
- Participate in team and ward meetings
- Participate in established research projects and clinical audit in local area
Management and leadership
- Manage a group of patients, in line with level of experience.
- Supervise under the direction of the Sister/Charge Nurse, the work of unqualified staff.
- Manage the ward/department in the absence of the Band 6 or 7 nurses, if senior enough to do so.
- Demonstrate effective time management and prioritization of workload.
Please see attached job description and person specification to this advert for further details.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Degree/ Diploma
- Registered Nurse on NMC registers. Hold appropriate level for the are of speciality
- Evidence of recent ongoing professional development
Desirable
- Mentorship/ Teaching/Assessing course
- Post Qualification in relevant speciality
Experience
Essential
- Post registration experience working in an acute hospital setting
- Proven clinical experience in relevant area
Desirable
- Experience with acutely ill patients
- Evidence of teaching and assessing
- Ability to utilise pre-registration experience to demonstrate an understanding of the relevant settings
- general management skills
- previous experience of taking charge of clinical area
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Proven clinical skills in relevant area
- Demonstrated a genuine interest and has awareness of issues in speciality
- Evidence of self-development within speciality
- Knowledge of NMC code of professional conduct
Desirable
- Awareness of current nursing and NHS issues
- Evidence of commitment to customer care initiatives
- Awareness of NHS reforms and professional issues relations to speciality
- Specialist knowledge in area of speciality
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 .
Employer details
Employer name
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Chelsea and Westminster hospital
369 Fulham Road
London
SW10 9NH