Home, community, hospital

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.

Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.

We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.

Our Trust values

These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.

Job overview

***Please Note: Due to the high volume of applications, we may close this vacancy early***

Kingston Hospital is a busy, flourishing Foundation Trust with approximately 600 beds and a 22 bed private wing.  A wide range of acute medical and surgical conditions are dealt with on an inpatient, outpatient and day case basis. Intensive care, coronary care and high dependency facilities are available. Further sub specialities include an active maxillo-facial unit and an eye unit.

 The post holder will work on the Trauma and Orthopaedics (T&O) inpatient unit, which consists of 36 beds for unscheduled (emergency) admissions. Typically, up to 80% of these patients will be elderly and/or have multiple and complex co-morbidities. Kingston Hospital has a much higher proportion of very elderly patients within emergency admissions compared with the London (and England) average and the expansion of the Elderly Care department, including Orthogeriatrics, reflects the large number of elderly people being cared for in our hospital as a whole.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be an integral part of the Orthogeriatic Multi Disciplinary Team, comprising of nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, discharge co-ordinator, pharmacist, receptionists and housekeepers. You will have a very close working relationship with the Trauma and Orthopaedic team and the Trauma Anaesthetic consultants. There are daily Consultant ward reviews and daily multi-disciplinary meetings, which focus on a team-based approach to care and discharge planning. 

Although here are no specific on call commitments attached to this post there is a requirement to participate in a 7-day working pattern with the team covering weekends on a 1:4 basis. 

Excellent communication and team-work skills are essential, as is the awareness of the importance of our (secondary care) links with Community Services and Primary Care.

We would welcome applications from candidates with at least 12 months relevant NHS experience. Previous applicants need not apply.

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