Senior Staff Nurse Elderly Care

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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 recruiting a registered Nurse for our Witherow ward at St Mary's Hospital Paddington. It is a 12 bedded ward which specialises in male elderly care medicine. Patients with an average length of stay of 12 days or less. We offer an environment that will enable you to develop and broaden your nursing portfolio including caring for patients with a variety of medical conditions and an in-depth understanding of frailty and hospitalised deconditioning.

You will work as part of the Care of Medicine for the Elderly Team supporting the division and Manager of the Witherow ward to ensure an effective and high quality of care and service is delivered to those patients who access and requires treatment daily.

If you are a Registered Adult Nurse, with experience at Band 5/6 or above in an specialist care of the elderly hospital setting and are innovative, driven and passionate about delivering excellent, person-centred care then this job could be for you.

Main duties of the job

• Demonstrates our values of the Trust: Collaborative, Aspirational, Kind, and Expert.
• You will be 85% Clinical based and 10% managerial. This means that a full time post will require you to work at least 1 day per rota in a managerial role.
• You will be required to promote the inter-professional working relationship within the service - administrative, consultants, physiotherapist, dietician specialist nurses, the discharge hub, occupational therapist, religious leaders, specialist teams such as the dementia team, etc.
• You will be responsible for the professional day-to-day clinical leadership and operational management of Medicine for the Elderly as the Nurse in Charge. Ensuring high quality, responsive, safe, efficient and compassionate care is delivered and professionalism is maintained amongst staff.
• You will support the Ward Manager in developing quality improvement projects that address frailty, hospitalised deconditioning and reducing long length of stay.

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

• Active Registration with the NMC
• Degree/diploma in health related subject.

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of appropriate post graduate education/CPD
• Mentorship qualification.

Experience

Essential criteria

• Substantial post registration experience
• Evidence of working as an autonomous practitioner.
• Evidence of close working with all members of the multidisciplinary team in a medicine for the elderly ward.
• Aware of recent developments within nursing. Particularly care of the elderly.
• Understanding of clinical governance.
• Awareness of national guidelines and standards of care of the elderly.

Desirable criteria

• Proven experience in a care of the elderly specialism.
• Experience of implementing quality improvement projects, based on evidence based practice.
• To have had experience in clinical audit, research or policy/guideline development
• Experience of contributing to care pathways and discharge process of the care of the elderly.

Experience Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities

Essential criteria

• Substantial post registration experience. Evidence of working as a Band 5.
• Evidence of close working with all members of the multidisciplinary team. Proven knowledge of Anatomy and Physiology of ageing. Aware of recent developments within nursing. Understanding of clinical governance. Awareness of national guidelines and standards of care on the management of elderly patients. Knowledge and understanding of measuring outcomes

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).

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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, 592.8KB)
• FRF (PDF, 234.9KB)
• Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)