Senior Staff Nurse

Job description

Job summary

Are you ready to take the next step in your cardiology nursing career? We are offering an exciting part time, permanent opportunity for a band 6 senior staff nurse to join A7 and lead by example in our busy and rewarding unit.

A7 is a 25 bedded cardiology ward incorporating a 5 bedded CCU (level 2 care) and 20 step down beds with cardiac monitoring and telemetry. We care for patients admitted from the Heart Assessment Centre, London Ambulance Service, tertiary referrals and ED, with conditions including acute myocardial infarction, arrhythmia, pulmonary hypertension, and post procedural cases such as TAVI and MitraClip. We also support step downs from ITU requiring ongoing specialist cardiology management.

As a Senior Staff Nurse, you will:

• Provide strong clinical leadership, supporting and inspiring junior colleagues.
• Ensure safe, high quality, evidence based patient care.
• Play a key role in service improvement, staff development, and patient experience.
• Act as a clinical role model in a fast paced, collaborative environment

We're looking for someone who:

• Has substantial experience in cardiac or acute care.
• Demonstrates excellent communication, organisational and leadership skills.
• Is committed to developing both their own practice and the team around them

Main duties of the job

• Providing high quality, effective, individualised nursing care to patients by assessing their needs and developing, implementing and evaluating care plans without supervision.
• The post holder will be expected to liaise appropriately with all key members of the multi-disciplinary team and service users related to the speciality.
• To be responsible for all aspects of patient care including the assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation of direct patient care with supervision from senior staff.
• To support the ward manager to monitor the safety and quality of care for patients. Maintaining accurate clinical observations of patients, utilising nursing skills and competencies.
• To manage a group of staff nurse and healthcare support workers within their shifts, assign delegated tasks and responsibility as appropriate. Assisting in the teaching and development of nursing team, healthcare support workers and pre-registration students, helping them to achieve their learning outcomes.
• To ensure the compliance of mandatory training and appraisal requirements for delegated nursing staff and healthcare support workers.
• To ensure a positive focussed service incorporating patients' feedback to maintain and improve patient care. To act as an effective role model promoting excellence through practice.
• To resume responsibility of bed management via bed bleep out of hours (overnight) and ensuring smooth patient flow through the service.

About us

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Environmental sustainabilityClimate change and poor air quality is a health emergency that harms people's health and wellbeing and widens health inequalities. The Trust is also committed to reducing its impact on the environment by reducing our greenhouse gas emissions to Net Zero by 2045. All our employees have a role to play, and we have an active green network that supports staff to act in ways that ensures that our services are efficient, sustainable and reduce our impact on the environment www.imperial.nhs.uk/about-us/our-strategy/green-plan.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Job description
Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person Specification

Education

Essential

• Registered Nurse - Valid NMC PIN
• Minimum of 4 years acute cardiology and 3 years CCU experience
• Relevant Specialist course CCU/HDU
• Practice Supervisor/Assessor qualification

Desirable

• Educated to Degree level
• Advanced ECG Course

Experience

Essential

• Significant experience of caring for level 1 and 2 patients in a coronary care setting or heart attack centre.
• Ability to manage a group of level 1 and 2 patients independently
• Ability to work with multidisciplinary teams
• NIV/CPAP training/experience
• Low dose Inotrope support

Desirable

• Bed Management

Skills

Essential

• Clear understanding of complex cardiac arrhythmia's and treatment
• Pre and Post interventional procedure care
• Ability to manage complex discharges, supporting the team with providing end of life/palliative care needs, managing safeguarding concerns, managing patients
• Good clinical skills and a commitment developing them further
• A knowledge of care planning, preceptorship, reflection and clinical supervision

Person Specification
Education

Essential

• Registered Nurse - Valid NMC PIN
• Minimum of 4 years acute cardiology and 3 years CCU experience
• Relevant Specialist course CCU/HDU
• Practice Supervisor/Assessor qualification

Desirable

• Educated to Degree level
• Advanced ECG Course

Experience

Essential

• Significant experience of caring for level 1 and 2 patients in a coronary care setting or heart attack centre.
• Ability to manage a group of level 1 and 2 patients independently
• Ability to work with multidisciplinary teams
• NIV/CPAP training/experience
• Low dose Inotrope support

Desirable

• Bed Management

Skills

Essential

• Clear understanding of complex cardiac arrhythmia's and treatment
• Pre and Post interventional procedure care
• Ability to manage complex discharges, supporting the team with providing end of life/palliative care needs, managing safeguarding concerns, managing patients
• Good clinical skills and a commitment developing them further
• A knowledge of care planning, preceptorship, reflection and clinical supervision

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the .

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. .
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the .

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. .
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Employer details

Employer name

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Address

Hammersmith Hospital

London

W12 0HS

United Kingdom

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