Senior Staff Nurse

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Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

Join our team as a Senior Staff Nurse in the Cardiac Cath Labs and become a key player in our cutting-edge service. Your expertise will be vital in upholding and enhancing our high standards of patient care, with a strong focus on patient-centered outcomes and experiences. As a leader, you'll ensure safety and efficiency in every aspect of care, while also mentoring junior staff and integrating them into our team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver planned care to patients with advanced clinical skills.
• Maintain a safe patient environment.
• Act as a scrub or circulating nurse during invasive cardiac procedures.
• Perform venepuncture, cannulation, and remove venous and arterial sheaths.
• Assist in the safe transfer of critically ill patients.
• Participate in on-call commitments as needed.

Why Apply?

• Professional Growth: Enhance your skills at one of London's leading Trusts.
• Innovative Environment: Work at Hammersmith Hospital, renowned for its strong research connections and as a regional specialist heart attack center.
• Dynamic Team: Be part of a growing healthcare team, rotating within our state-of-the-art cardiac cath labs, day ward, and recovery unit.

About Hammersmith Hospital: Located in East Acton, Hammersmith Hospital is a specialist hospital known for its research excellence. It offers a range of services including renal, haematology, cancer, and cardiology care, and serves as the regional specialist heart attack center.

Our Cardiac Cath Labs: With six cardiac cath labs operating Monday to Saturday, we provide a variety of procedures from simple diagnostics and treatments like coronary angiogram and angioplasty to complex interventional, EP, and structural procedures such as PCI of CTO, ablations, device extractions, TAVIs, and Mitral and Tricuspid Clips/TEER.

Take the next step in your career and apply today to join our dedicated team at Hammersmith Hospital!

Main duties of the job

• To provide high quality, effective, individualised care to all patients
• To assess care needs and develop, implement and evaluate them without supervision
• To assist in leading and monitoring the performance of the nursing team
• To deputise for the Senior Sister or Senior Charge nurse when required

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

Education/ qualifications

Essential criteria

• RGN with cardiac cath labs and/or cardiac day ward experience
• Immediate Life Support
• Cannulation and Phlebotomy certification / skills

Desirable criteria

• Relevant Courses specific to specialty i.e., Cardiac Course
• Advanced Life Support

Experience

Essential criteria

• Extensive experience in Acute Cardiac Nursing and Cardiac Cath Labs
• Ability to scrub and circulate in various cardiac cath lab procedures
• Experience of doing on-call shifts for primary / emergency cases, out of hours.

Desirable criteria

• Experience in cath lab / day coordination, working with MDT to ensure efficient flow of patients

Skills/knowledge/ abilities

Essential criteria

• Able to work in a dynamic environment and deal with job demands and pressures
• Ability to manage own workload; solve problems and use own intitiative

Desirable criteria

• Knowledgeable of various coronary intervention, electrophysiology, device and structural procedures performed in the cardiac cath labs

Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Documents to download

• Job description (PDF, 524.4KB)
• Functional Requirements Form (PDF, 272.6KB)
• Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)