Staff Nurse

Job description

Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

We are seeking a dedicated, full-time Band 5 Staff Nurse to join our team. The ideal candidate will be a motivated, enthusiastic, and skilled nurse with clinical experience or a strong interest in caring for Outpatient Service Users.

This is a substantiative Band 5 position until working 37.5 hours per week with shifts of 7.5 hours each.

You will have excellent clinical knowledge and skills and enjoy Multidisciplinary team working. .

You need to be well organized, motivated and committed to further developing and delivering high quality holistic multidisciplinary care; and enjoy supporting the various specialties in the Outpatients setting including Dermatology, ENT, Cardiology, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Vascular, Gastroenterology, Anticoagulation and Allergy Clinics.
Your responsibilities will include Running the clinics with HCSW's and other Staff Nurses, in the department. You will be covering and coordinating, supporting the Senior staff nurse band 6, taking turns with your colleagues in a rotational basis.

We can offer you the opportunity to deliver high quality care whilst further developing in your career and area of interest; advancing your clinical practice supported by a dedicated and experienced team of clinical nurse specialists.

Main duties of the job

• To support the departmental leadership in the provision of professional role modelling that inspires the professional development of nursing within outpatients
• To assist the departmental leadership in ensuring the delivery of high-quality care.
• Ensuring that the needs of the patient are placed at the centre of care delivery.
• To ensure effective operational management of outpatient clinics to ensure standards are monitored and maintained /improved
• To work with the multi-professional team on patient pathway redesign to enhance the quality of the patient experience whilst reducing delays, and ensuring patient flows are managed within elective access targets
• Ensure local governance structures are in place and lead on delegated projects
• Support strategies to improve the patient experience across multidisciplinary groups within outpatients and the outpatient pathways.
• To supervise the professional development and appraisal of staff through their line management structure

Working for our organisation

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 sustainability
Climate 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 environme