Staff Nurse - Richmond Ward London, England
Job description
We have opportunities for Registered Nurses with some post qualification experience to join us in the Acute Medical Division on Richmond Ward. Richmond is a 51 bedded Acute Medical unit incorporating an 8 bedded Acute Dependency Unit and a Consultant led Ambulatory Assessment Unit with Nurse Practitioner clinics. We care for level one and two patients with a variety of medical conditions in a fast turnover environment.
Strong candidates with no previous experience will be considered!
To provide outstanding care to patients all of the time. As skills and competencies develop, taking charge and actively participating in and contributing to the management of the ward or department. Supervising, supporting and mentoring junior staff, students and HCA’s.
This is a chance to develop your skills as part of a highly capable team where you’re guaranteed opportunities to learn how to care for patients requiring a variety of nursing interventions. You will be supported by our practice educators and senior nurses to help you develop –
- Communication and awareness competencies – including dementia nursing, safeguarding, electronic clinical record keeping, deprivation of liberty and mental capacity.
- Clinical competencies - including aseptic technique, venepuncture and cannulation, catheterization, syringe drivers, medicines management, IV drug administration, Peg feeds, NG tube insertion, blood transfusion, EWS, pressure ulcer management and prevention.
- Management competencies - including professionalism and accountability, nurse in charge, mentoring.
Their main site, St George’s Hospital in Tooting – one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals – is shared with St George’s, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George’s Hospital also hosts the St George’s, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.
As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.
The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.
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