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Job summary

Main area
SCIC
Grade
Band 4
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
392-RNOH-55-J
Employer
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
Town
Stanmore
Salary
£29,460 - £31,909 per annum inclusive HCAs
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
07/05/2024 23:59

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Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust logo

Nursing Associate - London Spinal Cord Injury Centre (LSCIC)

Band 4

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust. 

The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a global leader in our field.  We provide a dynamic working environment where we support frontline staff to implement improvements so that we can realise our vision of being a world leading neuro musculoskeletal hospital providing the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS, delivering world leading research, and offering a strong foundation of education, training and career progression. Our dedicated staff come from diverse backgrounds, and our patients benefit from the wide range of experience they bring to the Trust. The RNOH brings unrivalled expertise together in one place allowing us to deliver some of the world’s most complex and innovative care to our patients

  • Rated Good by the CQC
  • Two sites, one in central London and one in Stanmore - which has recently opened The Stanmore Building, a new, state-of-the-art inpatient facility
  • Our Research and Innovation Centre works closely with our main academic partner, University College London
  • Recognised as a centre of excellence,  leading on national initiatives, such as the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) Programme
  • Further major redevelopment underway across the Stanmore site – improving and modernising our facilities to maintain our position as the UK’s leading centre for orthopaedic medicine
  • In the NHS staff survey, over 90% of our staff were satisfied with the quality of care they are able to give to patients - the best result of any NHS Trust in the country
  • Our staff also indicated that they had the best experience of appraisals as compared to all other NHS Trusts.

This is a great time to join us and play a critical role in the next stage of RNOH’s journey to achieving an outstanding CQC rating.

Our aim is to remain a world-leading orthopaedic hospital with the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS. To do this, we have four core values that underpin everything that we do. We use our values to help ensure that we are always focused on the things that our staff and patients believe are most important:

  • Patients first, always
  • Excellence, in all we do
  • Trust, honesty and respect, for each other
  • Equality, for all

Our annual staff survey results have been improving year on year, with our staff telling us that their experience of working at the Trust is getting better and better. They also indicate that our staff feel very loyal to the RNOH and committed to its role in providing the very best care to our complex patient group. We hope that we can welcome you to our growing team soon.

Job overview

Are you a Nursing Associate with a passion for helping people in their activities of daily living and making a difference to their quality of life in a rehabilitation setting? The London Spinal Cord Injury Centre is one of 8 specialist rehabilitation centre in England, who look after individuals with both newly acquired and pre-existing spinal cord injuries.

We are looking for Nurse Associates who are passionate about the importance of rehabilitation nursing to join our diverse nursing team.

Our Nursing team consists of, B2 Health Care Assistants, B3 Senior Health Care Assistants, B3 Rehab Assistants, , B4 Registered Nursing Associates, B5 Reintegration Practitioners B5 Registered Nurses, B6 Ward sisters, B7 Clinical Nurse Managers, B7 Clinical Nurse Educators, B7 Health Coaches and a B8 Ward Matron. We offered excellent progression with the correct competency based training and academic study.

The role requires the post holder to undertake internal rotation- early, late, long day and night shifts.

If you are keen to develop your skills both clinically and professionally in a very supportive, dynamic team, and would like any further information- please get in touch.

Please note only Nursing Associates already registered on the NMC (or in the process of applying) will be shortlisted for this position. If you are a qualified nurse from oversees please enquire with Capital Nurse regarding vacancies within the London Region.

Main duties of the job

NA’s will work as part of the nursing establishment on SCIC, working alongside highly skilled NMC registered and unregistered staff. They will be an essential part of the multi- disciplinary integrated patient care on SCIC.

The role will require the successful candidate to work as part of the team on SCIC caring for those with Spinal cord injuries, they will be expected to practice according to the NMC code of conduct, demonstrating professional behaviour at all times.

The role requires excellent communication skills, and the provision of excellent patient centred care, underpinned with the most relevant evidence based practice.

Working for our organisation

This centre is a specialist commissioned 30 bedded Regional Rehabilitation Centre and one of only 8 centres in England. This service facilitates rehabilitation of individuals who have been recently paralysed as a result of traumatic or non-traumatic events. The service also readmits individuals for tissue viability care, urology input and secondary episodes of rehabilitation.

The overarching philosophy of the specialist centre is that rehabilitation is a journey that takes years to achieve and is best delivered through lifelong interventions and learning. The MDT aim to give the patients the initial skills to return to their lives as soon as possible. The patient journey is further supported by re-admission opportunity’s, outpatient services, specialist community Liaison nursing, all to maintain good health and ongoing skill acquisition.

The nursing associate role on LSCIC offers an exciting opportunity for both experienced and newly qualified nursing associates to develop their career within the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. We are a trust that is actively developing and supporting the NA role.

The NA will work independently under the leadership of registered nurses, working within the sphere of nursing and care and within all aspects of the nursing process.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • To practice according to the NMC Code for standards of proficiency for registered nursing associates.
  • Provide patient centered care, whilst maintaining privacy and dignity at all times.
  • Work alongside the registered nurse to undertake, deliver and monitor patient care, whilst managing own workload.
  • Be responsible for their own actions and decision making, prioritise and escalate as required.
  • To participate in patient education and health promotion/
  • Recognise situations where emotional and spiritual support are required and offer appropriate intervention, referring to the multidisciplinary team as needed e.g. psychosocial key worker etc.
  • Demonstrate excellent communication at all times when undertaking handover and in all documentation.
  • To recognise and work within the limits of their scope of proficiency.
  • Identify any risk to safety and escalate any concerns as appropriate.

Person specification

Education & professional Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered Nursing Associate on the NMC register.
  • Nursing Associate foundation degree qualification

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
  • Insight into how to evaluate own strengths and development needs, seeking advice where appropriate.
  • Experience of providing and receiving complex, sensitive information.

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Ability to organise and prioritise own delegated workload.
  • Able to undertake the clinical skills outlined in the job description
  • Ability to deal with non- routine and unpredictable nature of workload and individual patient contact.
  • Ability to communicate effectively (written, verbal and non-verbal communication) with patients/ relatives and carers and all members of the multi-disciplinary team.
  • Ability to develop effective and appropriate relationships with people their families, carers and colleagues.
  • Ability to support, supervise, assess and act as a role model to trainee nursing associates, nursing assistants as required within the clinical setting.

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Jessica Hackshaw
Job title
Ward Matron LSCIC
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0208 909 537
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