Staff Nurse Ward 5A

Band 5 Staff Nurse Cancer Inpatients, Bart’s Cancer Centre

The post holder will work as part of a team of registered nurses, nursing associates, health care support workers and student nurses in delivering safe effective care to patients within the Cancer Inpatient wards working in collaboration with the medical and wider MDT teams, ensuring a high-quality service to patients.

The post holder will provide care to patients within the cancer inpatient wards on with the guidance and support of senior colleagues. As skills and competencies are developed there may be occasion when you would take charge of the unit. The post holder will always act as a role model ensuring safe and effective care is provided to all. The post holder will actively participate in meeting patient needs within the service to agreed standards and participate in audit activities / data collection. The post holder will be expected to act as a practice assessor / supervisor to students / learners allocated to the unit.

Responsibilities

Clinical: Patient care

Acting as role model and leading by example in all aspects of clinical care

Education and Development

Undertake appropriate education and training relevant to the role to support with personal and professional development and growth

Management and Leadership

Take charge of the unit on occasion as necessary

Participate in audit and QI projects as required.

Clinical Governance

Effective risk management, reporting clinical incidents via DATIX incidents and promote a culture of safe practice with openness and transparency.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Danny Lawrence Job title: Senior Nurse Email address: [email protected]