Job description
Main area

Trust Wide

Grade

Band 5

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Full time - 37.5 hours per week (37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday between (8am and 6pm) But for the right candidate part time hours would be considered.)

Job ref

196-NM12127

Employer

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type

NHS

Site

Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital

Town

London

Salary

£35,964 - £43,780 p.a inc HCA (pro rata)

Salary period

Yearly

Closing

07/10/2024 23:59

Interview date

25/10/2024

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 Thoracic Clinic nurses work at Guys Hospital to provide excellent care to our patients requiring a variety of thoracic surgery interventions. The successful candidate will be hard-working and keen to learn about Thoracic Surgery, their diagnosis and treatment.

You can enjoy working Monday to Friday with no nights and weekends, while still maintaining your clinical skills in a busy, fast-paced environment. We look forward to welcoming a new member to the team.

Closing date: 7th October 2024

Interview date: 25th October 2024

Main duties of the job

The Thoracic Clinic is seeking an enthusiastic and motivated nurse to work alongside the multidisciplinary team in our busy outpatient clinic. Staff will provide exceptional care to patients attending for pre-assessment appointments, or for diagnostic or therapeutic procedures.

You will be flexible, and keen to join a service that is constantly expanding and developing. This is a great opportunity to learn about Thoracic surgery and develop specialist Thoracic knowledge, including pre-assessment skills and chest drain management.

You will be well supported by the CNS/Thoracic Nurse Practitioner team and administrative staff to fulfil this role that may be the launch of your specialist thoracic career.

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 among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• Preparing patients to see a member of the multidisciplinary team, performing observations, bloods, ecgs and swabs
• Ensuring smooth running of the clinics, by working logically and prioritizing workload
• Working alongside CNS with wound care and chest drain management/removal
• Assisting with procedures
• Supervising junior staff, assisting with training and development, and delegation of tasks
• Developing and maintaining clinical and managerial skills in an outpatient setting
• Assisting the care coordinator in making sure patients are booked for correct follow up appointment
• Managing post-procedure complications, the deteriorating patient, and ward admissions

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, ****** 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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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.

Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Shirley Mullings
Job title
Surgical Oncology Matron
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07796694509