Job summary
- Main area
- Plastic surgery
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-SCCS-1419
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Charing Cross Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £42,471 - £50,364 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Plastic Dressing clinic Sister/ Charge nurse
Band 6
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 14,000 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 looking for a nurse who is passionate about wound care to run the nurse led Plastic dressing clinic at Charing Cross Hospital. The Plastic surgery department is a busy tertiary referral centre which treats a high volume of breast and head & neck reconstruction patients, undertaking 200-250 free flaps per year. The Plastics dressing clinic offers a 5 day service providing expert post- operative wound care service for patients undergoing reconstructive surgery as well as skin cancer patients.
This role calls for a nurse with both passion and experience in plastic surgery and wound care as well as good clinical decision making skills. It offers independent working and autonomy, while working as part of a well- established team. The successful candidate will work very closely with the plastic and reconstructive CNS, plastic surgery team, develop outpatient wound care services; liaise with Tissue Viability, Breast Care nurses, GPs and community nurses.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational.
Benefits include opportunities for a personalised development package, working and well-being, plus a staff recognition scheme. Also, take advantage of optional benefits including the cycle to work and car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
Main duties of the job
· To provide high quality, effective, individualized care to all patients by assessing care needs and developing, implementing and evaluating them without supervision
· To act as a high profile, accessible and responsive leader with clinical responsibility within the specialist plastic surgery and wound care.
· To make informed decisions within own area and scope of professional practice to ensure agreed standards, objectives and targets are met.
· Monitor standards of nursing care and take appropriate action to maintain and improve them
· Management of the Plastic Dressing Clinic
· To provide cover and advice to other specialties as required
· To effectively line manage own roster ensuring that annual leave and holidays a booked in advance
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.
Detailed job description and main 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/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse
- A recognized teaching qualification or the equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- A recognized teaching qualification or the equivalent experience
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience in wound care
- Knowledge of quality Improvement, standard setting, benchmarking and audit
- Knowledge of NMC Code of Professional Conduct
Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of quality Improvement, standard setting, benchmarking and audit
- Knowledge of NMC Code of Professional Conduct
- Competency in wound care assessment and management
- IT skills including use of email, Cerner and office packages
Desirable criteria
- Ability to undertake staff appraisals or willingness to learn
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nomsa Nyabunze
- Job title
- Matron for ENT
- Email address
- [email protected].
- Telephone number
- 02033111958
- Additional information
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