Senior Staff Nurse - Tiger Safari Ward

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Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.

Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 - the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.

To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here

Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.

LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King's College London's GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.

We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our established team in the Children and Young People Division at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich.

As we are passionate about the care we deliver to children and young people and their families, we are seeking enthusiastic, committed and highly motivated individual dedicated to making a difference within our inpatient setting. We are looking to recruit 1.74 wte Band 6 nurses to join our amazing team.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for assessing, planning, delivering and evaluating nursing care with opportunities to increase your skills, knowledge and experience and must possess excellent interpersonal and organisational skills. We aim for our new team members to develop and take an active role in helping to make improvements on the unit and most importantly, to care given to patients.

You will be expected to provide safe, competent care to general paediatric patients, as well as oncology and HDU.

Working for our organisation

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To utilise and develop specialist skills in order to provide the highest standard
of assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of individualised
patient care.
To promote a friendly and supportive atmosphere for parents and relatives in
which they can learn to care for their children.
To utilise a variety of strategies to communicate effectively with the child's
family/carers, the multidisciplinary team, other departments with the trust and
pertinent agencies outside the organisation.
To actively participate in and contribute to the management of the clinical area.
To act as a mentor, teaching and supervising junior staff including student
nurses and health care support workers.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• RSCN or RN Child
• PILS provider
• Functioning at minimum diploma level.

Desirable criteria

• EPLS/APLS
• Willingness to develop advanced assessment skills.
• Ability to support and mentors others.
• canulation/phlebotomy

Experience

Essential criteria

• Strong Leadership Skills
• Ability to document legibly and Precisely
• Good written & verbal communication skills.
• Practice Assessor

Desirable criteria

• Previous experience of working with children and family in the ED or HDU environment.
• Competent in IV drug administration

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Family centred focus
• Evidence of recent continuing professional development
• Able to interact well with multidisciplinary team and Patents/relatives

Desirable criteria

• Audit Experience

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria

• Motivated with a mature attitude
• Demonstrates dynamic personal and professional attributes.
• Flexible to change

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 Women's 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.

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

• JD (PDF, 270.8KB)
• Band 6 Person Specification (PDF, 253.4KB)
• Working at LGT (PDF, 4.2MB)