Specialist Nurse – Obstetric High Dependency Unit
Closed for applications on: 27-May-2024 00:01
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 27-May-2024 00:01
Key details
Location
- Site
- St.Thomas' Hospital
- Address
- Westminster Bridge road
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SE1 7EH
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Shift work including Nights and Weekends)
Salary
- Salary
- £42,471 - £50,364 P.A inc HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 6)
Specialty
- Main area
- Maternity
- Interview date
- 10/06/2024
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
The role of the Specialist Nurse is to work in partnership with the Midwife providing practical, social and emotional support to mothers and their families in our Obstetric High Dependency Unit.
The post holder will be required to undertake Level 1 and 2 HDU care alongside the Midwifery and Obstetric Team as well as being responsible for the assessment, planning and provision of specialist nursing advice and care.
They will provide health advice and information to mothers to support care of the mother and the newborn baby.
Closing date: 26/05/2024
Interview date: 03/06/2024
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You will have the opportunity to be part of our Multidisciplinary Team and work alongside our Obstetric Medicine Team, Obstetricians, Anaesthetists and Midwives in a busy yet exciting work environment.
Our Obstetric HDU currently manages level 1 and 2 women in the Antenatal and Postnatal period who require enhanced monitoring due to their complex medical and / or obstetric conditions.
If you have not provided newborn care before you will be trained to undertake this competently.
Working for our organisation
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are a small team of highly specialised Midwives working within a busy Maternity unit. We care for high risk women during their pregnancies and in the postnatal period.
You will be working alongside the Midwives in Obstetric HDU caring for high risk women and their babies.
You will work closely with the Multidisciplinary Team both within Maternity and the wider disciplines within the trust.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Assesses patients, plans, implements care, provides specialist advice and maintains associated records
Carries out specialist nursing procedures e.g. NIV, Invasive Central monitoring, management of NG tubes.
Carry out Neonatal observations, including blood glucose monitoring, recognise abnormal findings and report to the midwife.
Assist, in conjunction with the Midwife, in ensuring that agreed programmes and standards of care are implemented and evaluated, thus providing high standards of patient care at all times.
To act as an effective role model and resource/adviser to colleagues in the delivery of nursing care.
Work as an effective member of the multi-disciplinary team and individually without supervision where appropriate.
Ensure that nursing care and clinical practice is research and/or evidence based and accurately reflects the department’s philosophies.
Demonstrate competence in caring for critically ill patients and provision of all therapies within clinical setting.
Liaise with other disciplines on issues which may affect the care and safety of patients.
Please see attached job description for full details
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Person specification
Skills and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Ability to prioritise own workload and that of others.
- Demonstrates ability to influence and negotiate with others.
- Ability to make judgements related to critically ill patients that involve complex facts
- Ability to communicate complex and highly sensitive information to patients and relatives
- Demonstrate an awareness of clinical governance and risk management
Experience
Essential criteria
- Proven significant experience in an adult HDU
- Demonstrate extensive experience in caring for patients requiring Level 2 care
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrate forward planning, problem recognition, pre-emption and resolution
- Maternity specific experience or dual qualification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Level 1 Registered Nurse
- Qualification in mentoring, teaching and assessing
- High Dependency Course
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Alexsandra Hamatsos
- Job title
- Midwifery Practice Leader - OHDU
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 7185 4559
- Additional information
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