Band 5 - Endoscopy Staff Nurse

Overview

We have exciting opportunities for dynamic and enthusiastic Band 5 nurses to join our friendly endoscopy team. Come and find out about the wide range of roles that the Endoscopy nurse undertake such as:

• Pre‑assessment
• Assisting in the procedure rooms for both diagnostic endoscopy and complex therapeutic endoscopy
• Patient monitoring in procedure room
• Setup of advanced therapeutic procedures
• Recovery
• Discharge

We have fabulous career pathways for those staff wanting to progress further including leadership opportunities and advanced practice roles such as training as a Nurse Endoscopist. We are a state‑of‑the‑art modern busy unit performing diagnostic and specialist therapeutic procedures for patients from across London and the South East of England.

• We are open 7 days a week.
• The shift pattern is 4 × 9.5 hour shifts per week.
• Shifts are either 8am to 6pm or 9am to 7pm.
• We provide an out of hours emergency bleed service (on‑call) which is supported by nurses once they have been fully trained.
• We attend other areas in the hospital to assist with emergency procedures.
• National training passport for competence is available which will allow you to take this competence anywhere in the country.

A fully trained endoscopy nurse will always be in demand., The post holder is responsible for assessment of care needs, planning programmes of care, implementation and evaluation of these programmes without direct supervision of patients undergoing endoscopy. At times they will have management responsibility for being in‑charge of the unit and supervising junior members of staff. The post holder will be a key member in relation to the development of practice on the ward.

They will be working independently/autonomously and at times without direct supervision, accountable for their own professional actions. Ensuring the safety and well‑being of services users, and always working in a manner that promotes dignity and human rights through the adoption of person‑centred care principles.

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals – Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation. We are among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts.

We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark. We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King's Health Partners – we are one of England's eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world‑class clinical services, teaching and research.

We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.