Senior Staff Nurse (BAND 6) - Critical Care Unit

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more information, please refer to the job description and person specification.

• To complete the first level assessment of the patient's needs and document these on the care plan, planning, delivering and evaluating programmes of care from admission through to discharge/transfer.
• To gain an understanding of the physiological, psycho-social, spiritual and cultural needs of the patients with cancer and their families. To develop a positive, realistic and supportive attitude to ensure that the needs of the patient and family are met.
• Using the information obtained from nursing history assessments and from subsequent observations, to identify the patient's individual nursing problems and needs, and to plan and implement care.
• To set goals for the resolution of each of the identified nursing problems, and to help the patient achieve these goals through appropriate care planning.
• To document and evaluate care given and discuss progress, condition and treatment with colleagues, alerting the Sister/Charge Nurse of the patients' changing health care needs.
• To assist with teaching patients in preparation for investigations, treatment and home care.
• To be aware of the side effects of any treatment in progress, and adopt a problem-solving approach to minimise the potentially adverse reactions.
• To make appropriate referrals to members of the multidisciplinary team and participate in the discharge planning of patients.
• To develop an awareness of the protocols involved for patients undergoing clinical trials.

Person specification

Attainments

Essential criteria

• First level registration
• ILS qualified or working towards qualification
• Mentoring/teaching qualification or working towards qualification
• Intensive Care/Critical Care Course

Special Aptitudes & Disposition

Essential criteria

• Good interpersonal skills with particular ability to liaise effectively with multidisciplinary team members

Desirable criteria

• Commitment to personal and professional development

Special Aptitudes and Disposition

Essential criteria

• Ability to demonstrate motivation
• Ability to make decisions, organise and prioritise own workload
• Evidence of commitment to customer care initiatives
• Awareness of quality issues

Desirable criteria

• Computer literacy
• Evidence of good understanding of NHS reforms and the contracting process

Other

Essential criteria

• Ability to work rostered shifts
• Flexibility to meet service needs

The Royal Marsden values diversity and is committed to the recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority groups. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are working to create a workplace that enables all staff to reach their full potential. We are committed to this because we know that greater diversity and inclusion will lead to an even greater positive impact for the people we serve.

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Flu Vaccination - What We Expect of our Staff

At The Royal Marsden we have an immune compromised patient population who we must protect as much as we can against the flu virus. Each year, seasonal flu affects thousands of people in the UK. Occurring mainly in winter, it is an infectious respiratory disease capable of producing symptoms ranging from those similar to a common cold, through to very severe or even fatal disease.

The wellbeing of our staff and patients is of the upmost importance to us, and it is the expectation of The Royal Marsden that all patient-facing staff have an annual flu vaccination, provided free of charge by the Trust.

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