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

We are looking for experienced, motivated and forward thinking Nurse who is looking to work in a busy Paediatric Outpatients and ambulatory unit.

The successful applicant must be a driven individual with focused on delivering patient centred care with a commitment to providing a quality service that is responsive to the changing needs of the children and young people accessing the service.

Your role will include some aspects of the management of the outpatient clinics. You will be in charge of a team of junior nurses and HCAs and will be supporting the manager with overseeing of the unit. You will be required to work closely with the wider multi- disciplinary team.

A varied and wide nursing knowledge base and clinical experience is essential. An ability to use your nursing expertise to promote safe patient care. You will be working clinically and have management days.

In conjunction with the roles above you will be responsible for ensuring there are robust transition pathways from children's to adult services through working closely with nursing and medical team.

Working hours are Monday to Friday.

Main duties of the job

• To provide Children's Outpatient nursing services, clinical expertise and advice to support and facilitate the delivery of high standards of individualised care for patients.
• To support the delivery of high quality, safe and effective care focused on improving outcomes and experiences for patients, families and careers in the outpatient and ambulatory setting.
• Support junior members of the team including HCAs and Phlebotomy.
• As a key member of a multi professional team, ensure appropriate referrals and discussions are had with multidisciplinary teams to optimise patient care with the support of your ward manager.
• To have local open and transparent communication channels that support the out- patient areas with the teams to ensure we do right thing for people we care for.
• Act as a clinical expert within sphere of work.
• Provide visible professional support for the team on shift and support staff.

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

• RSCN/RN (child)
• Experience of supervision of junior staff, Mentorship in practice or equivalent

Desirable criteria

• APLS

Experience

Essential criteria

• Minimum of 12 months at pay band 5 within the relevant speciality.
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Desirable criteria

• Experience of change management - positive change agent

Skills

Essential criteria

• For specialist areas able to demonstrate specialist knowledge of patient group
• Ability to practice within the scope of the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
• Competent interpersonal skills.
• Basic IT skills
• Be an excellent role model for the Trust

Desirable criteria

• Ability to take charge of a ward or part of a ward, delegate and supervise junior staff
• Leadership skills

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, 704.5KB)
• Functional Requirement Form (PDF, 240.6KB)
• Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)