St Pancras Inpatient Wards

Are you caring, compassionate and committed? Do you want to provide the best possible care to every patient? Are you ready for a challenge?

We have a great opportunity within the St Pancras Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit in Camden.

Our Rehabilitation unit works with adults whose body functioning has been lost or affected by a medical condition or injury. This could range from loss of mobility chewing or swallowing speech and language thinking and reasoning memory. The goal of rehabilitation is to teach people how to take care of themselves and to gain as much independence as possible.

Main duties of the job

Band 6 nurses work closely with the people who use our services, families, friends and carers and play an important contribution in how people experience our services. Band 6 nurses are expected to be kind and responsive but professional and informative and contribute to the quality of the services we provide by:

keeping the people who using our services as safe as possible through the use of sound clinical skills and effective risk assessments

ensuring the best possible clinical outcomes by using up-to-date skills and adhering to evidence based policies and procedures

ensuring the people using our services have a good experience by respecting, empowering and working in partnership with people throughout the care planning process.

We believe that the best health care is delivered by multi-disciplinary teams working well together and in partnership with other teams and services to provide seamless care. Band 6 nurses work as part of a team and you will contribute to the success of the team by being an effective role model and supervising other Band 5 nurses, healthcare assistants/ support workers and students to ensure they are working to the standards which the people using our services deserve.

About us

We operate 24 hours a day 7 days a week and you will be expected to work on a rota and provide rotational on-call bleep cover as the senior nurse on duty.

Benefits of working as a nurse for CNWL Camden:

* Inner London weighting* Training and career development opportunities, including access to Specialist PractitionerDistrict Nursing degree and other education.* Open to flexible working patterns.* Good opportunity for progression: nurses identified for development and regular internal promotion of our staff.* Experience of working in a vibrant and diverse Central London location.

Camden is home to one of London's most visited tourist attractions: the markets, streets and shops that have grown around Camden Lock and its associated music venues. Camden as a Borough is diverse, containing Hampstead Heath and its famous swimming ponds, Holbornand parts of the West End, and the housing estates of Somers Town.It is our aim to recruit the best nurses so that we can continue to develop and provide the best patient care.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Central and North West London NHS Trust is committed to providing safe, effective services and providing patients and families with a positive experience.

Patient Safety

Band 6 nurses contribute to the provision of safe and reliable services by:

• Using their clinical judgement and risk assessments to keep the people using our services as safe as possible
• Safeguarding people by recognising and responding when an adult or child might be at risk from abuse but also recognising their own limits and asking for help and escalate concerns when necessary
• Escalating safety concerns and by doing so acting as effective advocates for those who use our services
• Being open and transparent about their own practice
• Supervising the work of others
• Reflecting on everyday practice to identify areas where improvements in safety or quality can be made
• Working with others to create a culture of continuous improvement
• Maintaining accurate, legible, comprehensive records
• Maintaining compliance with their mandatory training requirement.

The NMC plays an important role in safeguarding the public by regulating the work of nurses and all nurses, including Band 6 nurses, are expected to register with the NMC each year and adhere to the NMC Code of Conduct.

Clinical Outcomes

Band 6 nurses often work with people who have complex needs and contribute to the effectiveness of services by:

• Being confident, autonomous practitioners who take responsibility for the care they give to patients but also take responsibility for overseeing the work of others in the team including less experienced nurses and staff without a professional qualification
• Providing skilled, evidence based nursing care which adheres to agreed policies and procedures
• Working with patients and families in all stages of the care planning process including assessing risks and needs
• Acting as patient advocates in the multi-disciplinary team and overseeing the work of others to ensure that they are also responding to the needs of patients and providing clinically effective care
• Working as autonomous practitioners and taking responsibility for the care they give to patients but also work as team members
• Contributing to creating and maintaining high performing teams by:
• Communicatingwell with all members of the team
• understanding their role in the team and how they help the team achieve its objectives
• reflecting on their own practice regularly and encouraging the whole team to reflect on their practices in handovers and team meetings
• encouraging the team to learn from adverse events or respond to data analysis from audits or benchmarking exercises and implement sustainable initiatives which improve clinical outcomes

Patient Experience

Band 6 nurses contribute to the people using our services feeling respected and empowered to make decisions about their health and wellbeing by:

• Working in partnership with patients and their families and carers
• Gaining consent and, as far as possible, involving people in all decision making
• Signposting patients and carers to the courses provided by the Recovery and Wellbeing College or services provided by the local authority or voluntary sector
• Reassuring people by being professional, responsive, knowledgeable and confident
• Demonstrating clinical leadership and challenging any poor behaviour to patients, families or other staff members and creating a positive, inclusive culture in which everyone is treated with kindness and respect and the trusts values are embedded in all practice
• Responding to complaints or concerns effectively and quickly in line with the Trust policy.

Supporting yourself and others

All services and teams in the Trust should be able to demonstrate that they are meeting the Care Quality Commission (CQC) standards of care. Band 6 nurses are expected to be Clinical Leaders and play an active role in ensuring that the team understands the CQC standards and what individual team members do to help achieve those standards by:

• Taking a lead role in gathering and recording evidence which demonstrates that CQC and locally agreed standards are being met: assessing the performance of the whole team by using audit and benchmarking exercises and often contribute to the implementation of quality improvement initiatives.
• Contributing to the performance management of teams and creating a positive culture in which the team can learn from mistakes and is enthusiastic to improve

• Deputising for the team leader / ward manager and ensuring that there is no fall in performance in their absence. This may include managing the team and coordinating shifts.

Engaged staff are more productive and Band 6 nurses play a role in engaging in other staff members in the Trust and the work we do by:

• Providing supervision and annual appraisals to individuals and giving constructive, regular feedback which helps those individuals reflect on their work, understand their objectives and the CQC standards and monitor their progress towards achieving them
• Participating constructively in their own supervision and annual appraisal processes
• Using continuing professional development funds to develop a relevant clinical specialism, gain sign-off mentorship skills or undertake accredited leadership or management modules.

Clinical Leadership

Service Specific Responsibilities

The service specific responsibilities attached to this Band 6 nurse post are explained in the Service Specific Section attached to this Job Description and the attached Person Specification.

Person Specification

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Able to communicate with the multi-disciplinary team, present cases, take note of actions, update others in the team and use handover effectively. Speaking face to face but also by telephone and writing letters and reports.
• Manage others and contribute to the management of the team
• Good clinical knowledge
• You are expected to have the skills required to act as a professional, registered nurse and adhere to the NMC Code of Conduct.
• Work well with other members of the team including communicating effectively, being kind and considerate, reliable and enthusiastic
• Manage others and contribute to the management of the team
• Help others in the team achieve their objectives and deliver safe, effective care
• Mentor, teach and support others in the team
• Care planning: being able to assess patients, develop, implement and evaluate a care plan
• Medicines management and administration

Desirable

• Expertise in particular skills and evidence of how you developed them and use them in your current role
• Supervision, Line management and appraisal training
• HR skills training e.g. recruitment, managing absence

Previous Experience

Essential

• Previously worked in an acute/inpatient setting
• Previous experience as a Band 6 nurse / as a Band 5 nurse or equivalent level

Qualifications

Essential

• Adult registered nurse - RGN
• Numeracy skills required for the safe administration of medicines
• Evidence of relevant Continuous Professional Development

Desirable

• Mentorship qualification

Other

Essential

• Able to work efficiently in a rehabilitation setting

Employer details

Employer name

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St Pancras Hospital

4 St Pancras way

London

NW1 0PE

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333-G-CC-1374