Staff Nurse - Endoscopy

Job Overview

To work according to the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and relevant professional guidelines as a named nurse or key worker (with facilitation) for a defined group of patients and take responsibility for:

• The assessment of care and health education needs;
• The development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care including discharge planning for each patient.
  
  

To Gain Experience And Skills In

• Clinical practice
• Facilitation and teaching
• Management (as appropriate)
  
  

To work in accordance with the RUH Nursing Strategy and contribute towards achieving its objectives and maintain effective communication and participate in clinical supervision as appropriate and to teach and act as a facilitator/mentor/preceptor/ role model to less experienced staff.

Due to the nature of this role, we require candidates who apply to have current right to work in the UK. We value and encourage all international applications to please apply to work with our trust to do so via our international nursing campaign. Please follow the link below. You can get in touch at https://www.medacs.com

Main duties of the job

Patient Care Responsibilities

Acting as a Named Nurse, to maintain accountability for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating programmes of care within the framework of team nursing.

To promote a patient focused approach to care in collaboration with all relevant health professionals.

Professional Development And Education Responsibilities

To develop own teaching skills and participate in staff/student education programmes.

To help maintain a suitable learning environment for staff and act as a facilitator in the supervision and teaching of less experienced staff.

To attend Trust induction programmes and mandatory training sessions.

Research And Development Responsibilities

To assist in promoting nursing practice in line with relevant research.

To maintain an awareness of evidence-based practice.

Audit, Quality And Risk Management Responsibilities

To contribute to the setting and monitoring of measurable standards of care and be accountable for maintaining standards.

To maintain awareness of the national, professional and local quality issues relevant to the delivery of nursing services, e.g. Clinical Governance.

Resource Management Responsibilities

To develop and maintain an awareness of budgeting, exercising care and economy in the ordering and use of equipment.

To assist in the assessment and monitoring of staffing requirements and report problems to the appropriate manager.

Working for our organisation

At the RUH we’re proud to put people at the heart of what we do, working together as one team to make a difference for our patients, each other, and our community. No matter what your role is, we value everyone’s contribution in supporting the exceptional, person-centred care we pride ourselves on.

We are committed to creating a compassionate and inclusive environment. This can be seen in our growing community of staff networks – celebrating successes and creating opportunities to listen and learn. We value our differences, champion kindness and civility, and truly believe that diversity makes us stronger.

A culture of learning, developing and innovating is the thread that runs throughout our whole organisation. We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential.

We value staff wellbeing, with a well-established programme of support. We believe in a holistic approach spanning all aspects of living a healthy life, including physical, emotional, spiritual and financial wellbeing. We’ve even got a pool!

We are committed to supporting you and hope you want to join our team. In the meantime, find out more about living and working the beautiful historic city of Bath, learn about our extensive package of staff benefits, and read about how we’re providing healthcare fit for the future with the landmark Dyson Cancer Centre and our passion for research.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Please find attached to the vacancy a detailed person specification and job description for further information about this role.

Person specification

Qualifications & Training

Essential criteria

• Registered Nurse with Nursing & Midwifery Council
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Post-registration training preferably gastroenterology/surgery
  
  

Knowledge & Experience

Essential criteria

• Understanding of NMC Code of Practice and requirements of it for own practice & behaviour.
• Able to demonstrate effective consolidation of nursing Knowledge & practice after qualification & preceptorship
• Up to date knowledge of nursing theory and best practice.
• Understanding of equality & diversity and how to apply it to self and others.
  
  

Specific Skills

Essential criteria

• Demonstrates effective nursing Practice in all basic registered nurse procedures.
• Motivated, and able to articulate reasons for desire, to work in this clinical area.
• Able to prioritise own workload and that of others as appropriate.
• Demonstrates an empathetic and caring approach to patients and relatives ensure that patients’ dignity & respect is maintained at all times
• Demonstrates awareness of importance of working as part of a team.
• Able to work under own initiative within boundaries of role.
• Demonstrates awareness of research-based practice and ability to advocate it.
• Demonstrates ability to maintain confidentiality at all times. Good keyboard/computer skills
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Awareness of consent procedures and requirements
• Manual dexterity to take blood, cannulate and assist with procedures etc.
• Able to deal with exposure to bereavement and ‘difficult’ patients & relatives including on occasions giving bad news
• Able to deal with challenging behaviour displayed by patients and relatives
  
  

Professional Development & Education

Essential criteria

• Demonstrates evidence of commitment to professional development.
• Demonstrates evidence of ability to educate others
  
  

Communication

Essential criteria

• Able to communicate effectively both verbally and written to staff, patients and relatives ensuring that communication is tailored to the person being addressed
• Able to document observations, results, decisions and actions etc. effectively in patient notes and communicate these effectively to appropriate members of the Multidisciplinary team
• Able to supervise less experienced Registered Nurses, HCAs and students effectively if and when required
  
  

Audit and Quality

Essential criteria

• Demonstrates awareness of audit and quality issues and able to apply this
  
  

Values

Essential criteria

• Values and respects others, treats everyone as an individual, is non-judgemental
• Motivated to be genuinely kind and caring
• Helps and co-operates with colleagues
• Takes pride in themselves, their appearance, their role and where they work.
• Willing to learn, open to change Motivated to make a difference in whatever way they can
  
  

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if we receive a high number of applications. We strongly encourage you to complete and submit your application in good time to ensure it can be considered.

Documents to download

• Job Description & Person Spec - Staff Nurse (PDF, 183.6KB)
• Registered Nurse (PDF, 232.6KB)
• Join the RUH (PDF, 1.1MB)
  
  

Further details / informal visits contact

Name Lekha Kuruvilla Job title Senior Sister Email address [email protected] Telephone number 01225 824075