Job overview
Essentially, the successful candidate is required to have the following competency or the willingness to acquire skills on the job: Tracheostomy care. Epidural care. PCA care (patient controlled analgesia). Excellent leadership skills and resilience
Main duties of the job
To provide a focused leadership role and manage the staff and activities of the ward or clinical area as a ward based leader.
To act as a role model, provide leadership and co-ordinate the ward team in the clinical area.To demonstrate advanced clinical specialist skills in order to provide the highest standard of individualised evidence based patient centered care while supervising the work of others (in line with local and national standards). To be responsible for the ward/clinical area.
Working for our organisation
We’re an organisation that is getting better and betterand ourimprovements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with.
They are benefitting from a new (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been by the Care Quality Commission.
We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to and get rid of corridor care.
We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the.
We run a in Ilford; an in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at and at. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited. We’re proud to be a employer.
Some of the positive changes we’ve made are captured in .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.
Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.
All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. RGN Diploma or Degree in Adult Nursing
Skills/ Abilities
Essential criteria
2. Good communication skills Oral Written Listening.
Experience/ Knowledge
Desirable criteria
3. Substantial experience within Nursing in surgical
Personal Qualities
Desirable criteria
4. Demonstrate PRIDE values and behaveious with positive and proactive attitude to work
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.