Senior Staff Nurse - HDU - Savannah Surgery, Spinal and Orthopaedics...

Senior Staff Nurse - HDU - Savannah Surgery, Spinal and Orthopaedics

Band 6

Main area Paediatric Surgery and Orthopaedics Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent: Part time and flexible working considered Hours

• Full time
  
• Part time
  
• Flexible working
  
  37.5 hours per week (37.5 hours per week) Job ref 196-NM12988
  
  Employer Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Evelina London Children's Hospital Town London Salary £44,806 - £53,134 p.a inc. HCA (pro rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 03/07/2025 23:59 Interview date 16/07/2025
  
  Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
  
  Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
  
  Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
  
  Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
  
  In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
  
  We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
  
  Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
  
  The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
  
  We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
  
  Job overview
  
  We have an exciting opportunity for you to join our surgical team, our 26 bedded unit offers a dynamic environment to widen your surgical skill set in caring for spinal, orthopaedic and general surgical patients. We pride ourselves in supporting a range of children and families on their journey through surgical interventions.
  
  As a well-established surgical centre, we care for patients across the South East of England, the post holder will work alongside our clinical educator to enhance their nursing skills, knowledge and develop leadership.
  
  We will encourage you to explore the specialities further through a range of training and development, for example participating in internal and external courses eg Advanced paediatric life support and Evelina Paediatric Acute Nursing in Critical Care .
  
  With the advent of Children's Cancer Services and realignment of existing services, there are plans for expansion.
  
  “This advert is open to applicants with an active Nursing and Midwifery Council Personal Identification number (PIN) (this refers to an NMC Pin identification that allows you to work as a registered nurse/midwife in the UK.
  
  The post holder will be responsible for the assessment, planning and provision of specialist nursing advice and carrying out specialist nursing procedures.
  The post holder is responsible for assessment of care needs of patients, planning programmes of care, implementation and evaluation of these programmes without direct supervision. At times they will have management responsibility for being in-charge of the ward and supervising junior members of staff, as part of their own development and career progression.
  The post holder will be a key member in relation to the development of practice on the ward. They will be working independently/autonomously and at times without direct supervision, accountable for their own professional actions. Ensuring the safety and wellbeing of services users, and always working in a manner that promotes dignity and human rights through the adoption of person-centred care principles. Self development should be a priority for the post holder, with multiple educational opportunities within the trust available.
  Post qualification experience is required for this role and they are not currently opened to newly qualified nurses or nurses in the process of registering with the NMC from abroad.
  
  Working for our organisation
  
  Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
  
  At Evelina, we are reminded every day of how important life is, and how important it is to look after the health and wellbeing of our staff as they balance of responsibilities in and out of work. We are committed to supporting flexible working; we want to support you to work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Part time working is available.
  
  We are committed to diversity and inclusion, and creating a sense of belonging and fun for all our teams caring for women, children and families; as we continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs, we recognise the huge benefit of our workforce being reflective of the diverse communities we serve.
  
  We are committed to supporting the professional development of staff, and have excellent training and educational offerings. Recognising that looking after babies, children and young people is incredibly rewarding, but can also bring challenge we offer amazing resources to help support our staff’s emotional wellbeing and resilience.
  
  Detailed job description and main responsibilities
  
  The post holder will be responsible for the assessment, planning and provision of specialist nursing advice and carries out specialist nursing procedures.
  
  Independently manage a group of patients within the specialty whilst working as part of the multidisciplinary team, delivering individualised and personalised direct patient care.
  
  Ensuring the safety and wellbeing of services users, and always working in a manner that promotes dignity and human rights through the adoption of person centered care principles.
  
  Be responsible for assessing and recognising emergencies in the
  speciality. To interpret information and take appropriate action and to lead others to do the same.
  
  Act as an advocate for patients within the department, to ensure a patient orientated approach to the delivery of care and to meet standards within the NHS Plan and other relevant guidelines.
  
  Ensure that patients’ receive high quality clinical care and a good patient experience, having regard for their customs, religious beliefs and doctrines.
  
  To be an effective communicator with patients/carers/families regarding disease treatment and management.
  
  Facilitate a high quality, cost effective specialist service through monitoring and audit and other quality initiatives agreed by the Trust
  
  Set, monitor and review standards of care on a regular basis and initiate corrective action plans.
  
  Identify and intervene where circumstances contribute to an unsafe
  environment for patients and staff. To bring instances to the attention of the Sister/Charge Nurse for the area.
  
  Ensure that the learning environment and specialist training is appropriate for both pre and post registration learners and participate in the development of appropriate programs.
  
  The post holder will provide clinical supervision to other staff, students and may undertake research, lead clinical audits in own specialist area.
  
  To assist the Sister/Charge Nurse in developing a culture that is
  challenging, stimulating, rewarding and supportive.
  
  Provide a leadership role model and demonstrate specialist knowledge and high standards of clinical practice and provide support or advice when necessary.
  
  Promote and undertake nursing research updating own knowledge to promote excellence in clinical practice.
  
  Take an active role in risk assessment, supporting implementation of strategies to minimise risk. Ensuring incidents and near misses are
  reported, through promoting a no blame culture.
  
  Ensure all staff act in accordance with Local, Hospital and Statutory
  Guidelines & Policies including Health and Safety initiatives.
  
  Please see the attached Job Description for full details.
  
  Person specification
  
  Skills
  
  
• Evidence of involvement and leadership in teaching and mentoring learners
  
• Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate specialist care
  
• Good communication skills and ability to deal with sensitive information. To include dealing with distressed relatives, care of terminally ill & other challenging situations
  
• Demonstrates ability to influence and negotiate with others. Ability to organise and plan own time and that of junior staff and learners.
  
• Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate pain management such as epidural infusions and local anaesthetic wound infusions for speciality patients.
  
  Experience
  
  
• Previous post-registration experience within relevant speciality
  
• Experiencing of co-ordinating a shift
  
• Experience of supervising/mentoring of staff
  
• HDU course or equivalent clinical skills and experience
  
  Qualification
  
  
• BSC/1st degree (health related) or equivalent qualification/training and experience
  
• Post registration qualification in or demonstrate relevant speciality experience and competence (paediatric surgery and orthopaedics)
  
• Leadership Course
  
  Values and Behaviour
  
  
• Values and Behaviour
  
  Professional/ Statutory Registration
  
  
• RN1/ RN2/ RN12 or RN Child Registered Nurse on the NMC register. To hold the appropriate level for the area of speciality
  
  Guy’s and St Thomas’celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
  
  Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
  
  As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
  
  We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personalcircumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
  
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  You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
  
  Name Aniela Fatimah Job title Ward Sister Email address Additional information
  
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  Aniela Fatimah
  
  
  
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