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Staff nurse - outpatient department

Orpington
Permanent
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Staff nurse
Posted: 19h ago
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Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated Band 5 Staff Nurse with excellent communication skills to join the Outpatient nursing team across multiple sites, including Princess Royal University Hospital, Orpington Hospital, Beckenham Beacon, and Queen Mary’s Hospital.

Outpatients is a diverse, multidisciplinary environment that requires flexible and adaptable skills, an aptitude for learning, and a motivation to develop your own abilities.

If you are a dynamic individual who enjoys a challenge and would like to join a team passionate about providing high-quality care to their patients, we want to hear from you.

The successful candidate will be enthusiastic, organised, and committed to delivering high-quality nursing care. You will be able to work autonomously as well as part of a team, consistently ensuring that patients’ privacy, dignity, and psychological well-being are maintained at all times, with care that is patient-centred.

You must have excellent communication and interpersonal skills. We seek individuals who are forward-thinking, well-organised, and possess a positive attitude towards flexibility and change.

Main duties of the job

1. Work within the department to both provide and further develop the service.
2. Act as a clinical role model.
3. Assist junior staff in the assessment of patients and provide advice when necessary.
4. Maintain and interpret the significance of data regarding patients’ health status and communicate this within the multidisciplinary team (MDT).
5. Serve as an effective role model to the nursing team in the delivery of nursing care.
6. Assist and supervise junior staff to enable them to assess, plan, and evaluate care for patients attending the Outpatients Department.
7. Be aware of the NMC Code of Professional Practice and ensure individual professional development aligns with this code, with approval and agreement from the Trust.
8. Take responsibility for the correct administration, safe custody, and storage of drugs when appropriate, including management of FP10 prescriptions.
9. Ensure own mandatory training is kept up to date.
10. Adhere to Trust and departmental policies regarding sickness reporting and annual leave booking.
11. Maintain standards of conduct and dress to sustain public confidence, in accordance with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and Trust policies.
12. Set a good example by role modelling and being approachable and supportive to the Manager and staff.
13. Work with the Manager to perform regular appraisals of junior staff within an acceptable timeframe.

Working for our organisation

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£ billion, million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. The trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King’s to another level.

We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.

King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.

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