Staff Nurse - Oak Ward

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About
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is a community focused provider of local and acute care, providing high quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich and Bexley. With a turnover of around £700 million, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham and a range of community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Marys Hospital in Sidcup.

Job Overview
We are looking for dynamic, motivated and innovative Band 5 Nurses with excellent communication skills to join Oak Ward. We require Staff Nurses with a passion for providing high quality, patient centred care for our elderly patients. You will be required to work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team ensuring that the quality of care delivered is of the highest standard.

These posts are for Oak Ward which is a 28 bedded Acute Elderly Care ward. Our vision for the Elderly care wards is to ensure an environment that delivers a friendly, caring and compassionate approach to improving the health, independence and quality of life for all older people.

The successful candidate will need to be passionate about ensuring that the work force you lead delivers the highest standards of care to all patients.

The nursing team are committed to providing high quality, holistic care in a warm and friendly environment. The ward can offer you excellent support in your new post via the Matron, Ward Sister and the Practice Development Nurse.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

• Act as a Named Nurse within a Team taking responsibility, over an appropriate span of time, in conjunction with the Ward Manager and the multidisciplinary team, for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care from admission to discharge within the in-patient setting.
• Be aware of current advances in clinical care and be able to facilitate the team members in implementation of evidence-based practice.
• Take an active role in the continuing development and use of protocols and standards for nursing care.
• Participate in evaluation, audit, and research of nursing care, and incorporate appropriate findings into practice.
• Actively work to promote health and prevent ill health in staff, patients and their relatives.
• Promote and maintain a safe and pleasant environment for patients, visitors, and colleagues.
• Check the readiness for use of emergency/special equipment and ensure all equipment in use, is in good working order.
• Have knowledge of recording relevant patient/nursing data on to computer.
• Ensure his/her own and junior staffs compliance with the NMC Guidelines for Records and Record Keeping (1998) in all settings.
• Accept responsibility for the administration, care, and custody of medicines, in accordance with legal requirements and NMC and Trust Guidelines on drug administration.
• Attend mandatory annual updates in fire training, basic life support and maintain knowledge of relevant policies.
• Have knowledge and understanding of all relevant Trust policies, including the Major Incident Plan, ensuring that junior colleagues are aware of such policies.
• Have knowledge of and adhere to relevant parts of national legislation, including Health and Safety at Work Act, COSHH Regulations, and Moving and Handling Regulations.
• Transport people and/or items safely and to time consistent with legislation, policies and procedures.
• Ensure all biomedical investigations and interventions are undertaken safely and in a timely manner, reporting and documenting results appropriately and in line with legislation, policies and procedures.

We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.

As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Womens staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.

Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.

Applicant requirements
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.

Qualifications And Training

• 1st level registration NMC

Knowledge

• Ability to work under pressure and remain calm
• Able to recognise stress in self and others and support colleagues through stressful situations
• Patient focused

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