REGISTERED GENERAL NURSE (RGN)

Job overview

Are you a registered general nurse looking for a new challenge in a specialist unit? Come and join our multi-disciplinary teams who work together to help people maintain their dignity and maintain a good quality and meaningful life.

We are looking for registered general nurse who is passionate about caring and committed in delivering the highest quality of care.

You will be a Registered General Nurse, with clinical experience including leadership skills and an ability to mentor junior staff.

The role will involve caring for adults with complex physical and functional needs. To thrive in this role, you need to be resilient, motivated, and committed to adapt to working in an ever-changing environment. For further information please read the attached Job Description and Personal Specification.

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Main duties of the role

1. To develop and maintain communication with individuals and/or groups of patients, carers and staff, about difficult matters and/or in difficult situations.
2. To develop own knowledge and skills and contribute to the development of others.
3. To promote, monitor and maintain best health, safety and security of self and others in work area.
4. To contribute to the improvement of the service.
5. To contribute to improving quality
6. To support people’s equality, diversity and rights.
7. To contribute to promoting health and wellbeing and preventing adverse effects on health and wellbeing.
8. To assess health and wellbeing needs and develop, monitor and review care plans to meet specific needs.
9. To plan, deliver and evaluate care to meet people’s health and wellbeing needs.
10. To transport people and/or items.
11. To input, store and provide data and information.
12. To monitor expenditure.
13. To supervise people’s work

Working for our organisation

West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK.  

Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives.  We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.  

We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units. 

We’re rated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Together, we’re committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.

We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness.