registered nurse Leicester, England
Job description
Are you ready for a new challenge?
We are seeking an exceptional individual who is both enthusiastic and passionate to apply for this exciting opportunity.
Ward 40 is a 18 bedded Oncology ward, that looks after patients that are receiving Chemotherapy, Neutropenic Sepsis, complications from treatment and end of life care.
You will be responsible for identifying appropriate patients that meet the selection criteria, following the pathway and providing monitoring, holistic support and follow up. Working within this environment will provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate your clinical, managerial and leadership skills in order to facilitate and develop the service.
In addition, you will play a key role in ensuring effective communication between patients, carers, clinical staff and the wider multidisciplinary team.
If you are interested and have Oncology nursing experience please contact Sister Julie Copson on 0116 258 6887 or Matron Rebecca Brennan on 07950884157 for an informal chat or visit.
As an effective role model, you will be involved in using your own knowledge to develop and enhance the development, skills and competence of others. You will actively promote the service and participate in auditing the service in terms of measuring patient satisfaction, reduced length of stay and increased safety.
You will have the opportunity to use specialist knowledge, skills and innovative practice to provide a high standard of care and maintain patient safety. Although working primarily alongside the virtual ward, you will also be required to work flexibly between the in-patient ward and triage area as required.
We are one of the biggest and busiest NHS trusts in the country, incorporating the General, Glenfield and Royal Infirmary hospitals. We have our very own Children’s Hospital and run one of the country’s leading heart centres.
Our team is made up of more than 17,000 staff providing a range of services primarily for the one million residents of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.
We work with partners at the University of Leicester and De Montfort University providing world-class teaching to nurture and develop the next generation of doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals, many of whom go on to spend their working lives with us.
Our purpose is to provide ‘Caring at its best’ and our staff have helped us create a set of values that embody who we are and what we’re here to do. They are:
- We focus on what matters most
- We treat others how we would like to be treated
- We are passionate and creative in our work
- We do what we say we are going to do
- We are one team and we are best when we work together
About the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust: (leicestershospitals.nhs.uk)
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
PATIENT CARE, CLINICAL EXPERTISE AND CASE MANAGEMENT
1.1 Manage a delegated caseload of patients, as appropriate within the speciality, delivering individualised and personalised direct patient care.
1.2 Provide clinical expertise, specialist advice and support across the whole spectrum of the service.
1.3 Adopt a range of the Chief Nursing Officer 10 key roles appropriate to client group in order to improve and streamline patient care and patient experience.
1.4 Demonstrate in depth specialist knowledge, skills and innovative practice in the specialist area, ensuring the delivery of appropriate evidence based care.
1.5 Support, assist and encourage the multi-disciplinary team in resolving complex patient problems, by the provision of new and innovative models of case management.
1.6 Demonstrate appropriate expert practice and specialist advice in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care. This will necessitate high levels of autonomy and advocacy.
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