Job summary
Employer heading
Theatre Recovery Nurse
Band 5
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.
Job overview
We are looking for highly motivated and dynamic people to join our team.
In this post you are responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of evidence-based patient care using clinical expertise and skill.
The post holder will work collaboratively and co-operatively with other members of the multi-disciplinary team, in meeting the needs of the patients.
- To provide high quality, safe, effective, individualised care to patients and support to their relatives.
- To take responsibility for managing and co-ordinating an assigned area of the department in the absence of more senior staff.
- To work within multi-disciplinary team whilst providing continuity of care to all the patients admitted and discharged within the department.
- To participate in the teaching and supervision of students and junior staff as required.
- To ensure that all activities are carried out within Lewisham and Greenwich Hospital NHS Foundation Trust policies and guidelines.
We have 7 theatres on Main theatre and 1 Theatres in Day Surgery of the hospital and a fantastic team of theatre nurses . We are incredibly busy following the Covid-19 pandemic with both elective and emergency pathways.
Recovery: We have 11 recovery bays in main theatres , 5 bays in day surgery and the opportunity to look after routine elective and more complex cases.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for providing a high standard of evidence-based care to patients throughout their operative journey, within the guidelines of the Trust, and the NMC.
The post holder will provide support and guidance to the theatre team within the clinical area, and will assist with the training and development of junior staff and students.
The post holder will take responsibility for running recovery rooms in conjunction with and in the absence of a Senior Theatre Recovery Nurse.
Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will provide support and guidance to the recovery team within the clinical area, and will assist with the training and development of junior staff and students. The post holder will take responsibility for running operating lists in conjunction with and in the absence of a Senior Theatre Practitioner.
As a member of the team, participates in establishing a positive working environment in which patients receive a high standard of care delivery.
Personally deliver a high standard of care to patients and participate in assessing, planning and evaluation of individualised patient care.
Act as team leader where required and clinical role model at all times.
Ensure that all patients are cared for in a safe environment and maintains the safety and well-being of patients, staff and visitors in line with Health and Safety guidelines.
Personally acts within and ensures adherence to all Trust and Departmental policies and procedures.
Participates in the care, custody and administration of medicines in accordance with Trust and local policy.
Assist in developing the department philosophy and framework of care in line with unit/organisational and beliefs/values.
Ensure the provision of advice, support and health information to patients and their carers in order to promote a health-based service.
Ensure workload of colleagues does not jeopardise safe standards of practice and initiate action if necessary.
Participate in the daily checking and maintenance of essential equipment.
Transports/manages people and/or items such as equipment or specimens safely and to time consistent with legislation, policies and procedures.
Maintain accurate and legible records of all clinical and legal documentation to include accident / incident reporting, with regard to HCPC/NMC statutory and Trust polices.
Ensures all aspects of clinical care including interventions and investigations are performed, assessed and reported upon in a timely fashion and in a manner consistent with legislation, policy and procedures.
Liaise with all members of the multi-professional team to ensure that care is assessed, planned, delivered and evaluated within a multi-professional framework, in the interests of the patient, and that care is communicated to all team members.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NMC Level 1 Registration/ODP City & Guilds 752 or NVQ3 in ODP Practice.
Desirable criteria
- • Diploma/Degree
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in the appropriate care setting as a qualified or student nurse
- Ability of caring for the ill in a variety of settings as a qualified or student nurse
- Significant Recovery Experience
Desirable criteria
- Relevant specialist course
Skills
Essential criteria
- Effective verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to solve day to day problems
- Ability to develop own clinical skills and widen theoretical knowledge
- Evidence based knowledge of essential methods of care
- Interest in developing teaching skills
Desirable criteria
- Willingness to develop teaching skills, formally and informally
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
- Grace Rabino
- Job title
- Senior sister- Anaesthetic and recovery
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02088364317
- Additional information
Joyce Monreal
Senior sister-Anaesthetic and recovery
02088364317
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