Senior Staff Nurse - ITU

Introduction

This job is with HCA Healthcare UK, an inclusive employer and a member of my Gwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community. Please do not contact the recruiter directly.

• Clinical Responsibilities
• Professional Responsibilities
• Education & Training
• Quality, Risk and Governance
• Management Responsibilities
• Infection Prevention & Control
• Confidentiality, Data Protection Act, Freedom Of Information
• Health & Safety
• Equal Opportunities
• Risk Management
• Safeguarding
• Effort, Skills and Working Conditions
• General
• Supplementary – Person Specification

• Carry out a full range of registered nurse duties, including assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of the patient’s condition.
• Maintain a safe environment when caring for patients, including those requiring frequent monitoring.
• Assist and advise staff, both registered and unregistered, in the delivery of patient care.
• Monitor all patient care and treatment, maintaining high standards and quality at all times.
• Follow instructions from the nurse in charge and implement treatments ordered by the multidisciplinary team.
• Prioritise nursing care, recognise deterioration in a patient’s condition and escalated to the site team/clinician immediately.
• Maintain accurate, contemporaneous and legible written records of care.
• Ensure effective communication with all levels of staff including the multidisciplinary team.
• Under the direction of the Ward Matron, demonstrate clinical skills to pre and post registered nursing staff.
• Adhere to agreed procedures, promoting by example a high standard of good quality nursing care in the department.
• Foster good relationships with other departments, the multidisciplinary team and visitors to the unit, helping to achieve and maintain high morale for both staff and patients.

• Keep up to date with current developments in nursing and ensure evidence-based practice.
• Adhere to HCA’s uniform and dress code policy.
• Maintain personal appearance, hygiene and attitudes that provide patient and/or staff positive assurance.
• Be responsible as a trained nurse for the control and administration of drugs within HCA’s Medication Management Policy, the NMC regulations and complete the hospital’s intravenous and oral drug competency programmes.
• Participate in and lead ward projects, enhancing the standards of care.
• Assist in updating professional practice/procedures in line with current research.
• Help maintain an environment conducive to the allocation of nursing students and other staff in training.
• Contribute to the development of nurses and nursing practice across the hospital.
• Report to the Ward Manager accidents/incidents and be aware of the hospital’s policy for voicing concerns.
• Deal with patients, visitors and staff sensitively and professionally, respecting ethnic origin, culture, religion and sexual orientation.
• Maintain the dignity of patients and protect their rights.
• Maintain verbal and non-verbal communication with all patients.
• Use working time optimally.
• Ensure they meet the requirements for re‑validation.

• Attend all mandatory training and ensure that updates are booked in a timely fashion and agreed by the Ward Manager.
• Take equal responsibility for own appraisal and initiate own development within agreed parameters.
• Be involved in and lead any aspects of training that need to be cascaded to the whole team such as moving, handling and infection control.
• Help induct new staff with a formal induction programme.
• Act as mentor/preceptor for pre and post registration staff.
• Be prepared to extend knowledge and skills by rotation to other areas in consultation with the Ward Manager.
• Help implement group policies and ensure hospital policies are adhered to.
• Be prepared to be trained and use any information technology that is brought into your area.
• Be involved in ensuring correct usage of equipment and assist in the training of others as required.

• Engage in ward audits and develop and disseminate outcomes and action plans where appropriate.
• Promote a culture of appropriate incident reporting on the ward.
• Adhere to HCA’s policy…