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Job summary

Main area
Outpatient Department
Grade
Band 5
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday 08:00 - 18:00)
Job ref
197-AO7027
Employer
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Town
Woolwich
Salary
£29,970 - £36,483 Per annum plus HCA pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
02/08/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust logo

Staff Nurse Outpatients

Band 5

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

Accountable to Deputy Service General Manager / Head of Nursing, the post holder will play a key role in supporting the nurse managers in providing high-quality care.

 

The post holder must be prepared to work within the divisions as a Named Nurses, within a Team, and take responsibility for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating nursing care.

 

The post holder will be a clinically credible practitioner who can provide effective

patient care in a range of clinical settings, having regard for relevant policies and the

evidence-based nursing.

The post holder will provide support and mentorship for students and junior nurses.

Main duties of the job

·        

·         To demonstrate knowledge of being up to date within the specialty.

 

·         Flexible, able to work all shifts, and adaptable to changes in shift pattern.

 

·         To provide unit cover in the absence of the unit manager. 

 

·         Ability to work under pressure, using initiative.

 

·         The ability to undertake reflective thinking on own practice.

 

Ability to conduct themselves in public and private situations in an appropriate manner.

 

·        Ability to manage conflict

 

 Manual handling of patients, using lifting aids

·         Minor operation exposure (dermatology)

·         Wound management

·         Infection control

·         Bladder scanning

·         Phlebotomy

·         ENT minor procedures 

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

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Key Result Areas:

 

·         Act as a Named Nurse within a Team taking responsibility, over an appropriate span

of time, in conjunction with the Outpatient Manager and the multidisciplinary team, for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care from check-in to check-out within the OPD setting.

 

·         Be aware of current advances in clinical care and be able to facilitate the team members in the implementation of evidence-based practice.

 

·         Take an active role in the continuing development and use of protocols and standards for nursing care.

 

·         Participate in evaluation, audit, and research of nursing care, and incorporate appropriate findings into practice.

 

·         Actively work to promote health and prevent ill health in staff, patients, and their relatives.

 

·         Promote and maintain a safe and pleasant environment for patients, visitors, and colleagues.

 

·         Check the readiness for use of emergency / special equipment and ensure all equipment in use is in good working order.

 

·         Have knowledge of recording relevant patient/nursing data on to computer

 

·         Ensure his / her own and junior staff’s compliance with the NMC Guidelines.

 

·         Records and Record Keeping (1998) in all settings.

 

·         Accept responsibility for the administration, care, and custody of medicines, in accordance with legal requirements and NMC and Trust Guidelines on drug administration.

 

·         Attend mandatory annual updates in fire training, Basic Life Support, and maintain knowledge of relevant policies.

 

·         Have knowledge and understanding of all relevant Trust policies, including the Major Incident Plan, ensuring that junior colleagues are aware of such policies.

 

·         Have knowledge of and adhere to relevant parts of national legislation, including  Health and Safety at Work Act, COSHH Regulations, and Moving and Handling Regulations.

 

·         Transport people and/or items safely and on time consistent with legislation, policies and procedures.

 

·         Ensures all biomedical investigations and interventions are undertaken safely and in a timely manner, reporting and documenting results appropriately and in line with legislation, policies and procedures.

 

 

 

 

Person specification

Staff nurse

Essential criteria
  • Qualification and experience
Desirable criteria
  • 2 years and over experience

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Phlebotomy
Desirable criteria
  • Experience working in minor theatre

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Application numbers

To ensure fairness and manageable shortlisting processes, some vacancies may have an application cap. This means the vacancy will close once a set number of applications have been received even if this happens before the advertised closing date.

We recommend applying as early as possible to avoid missing out. All applications received before the cap is reached will be considered equally and assessed against the person specification.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Karen Davy
Job title
Nurse Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0779 561 7362
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