Registered Day Surgery Nurse, Band 5

Job description

Job responsibilities

Knowledge, Skills & Experience Required

- Current NMC Adult Nurse registrant

- Desirable experience of working in an acute setting

- Enthusiasm and self-awareness

- Team focused

- Reliable, adaptable and dependent

- Ability to prioritise

- Excellent communication skills

- Self-motivated

- Ability to appropriately escalate concerns

- Awareness of up to date guidance regarding Day Surgery

- Ability to complete admissions and discharges competently

- Understanding of safeguarding and how to escalate concerns appropriately

Education and training

- Be actively involved in and support departmental education programmes

- To consolidate and learn new skills and competencies to provide holistic care. To develop clinical reasoning and treatment techniques through the active participation in training and development. To consolidate knowledge and skills learned through this process with the direction of senior staff.

- To participate in the supervision, caseload monitoring and clinical education of student nurses and less experienced staff with support of senior staff, as required. Providing support, guidance, training, and assessing and evaluating competence, in order to fulfill clinical governance requirements and retain a skilled workforce.

- Develop the skills to supervise, mentor, support and educate less experienced and non-registered staff in the clinical practice setting.

- Undertake all mandatory training

- Demonstrate a commitment to research based practice and clinical excellence and play and active part in the introduction of research based change to improve patient centred care.

Improving quality and developing practice

- Comply with requirements to register with the NMC and identify own learning needs and ensuring own professional development is maintained by keeping up to date with practice developments.

- Work with senior staff undertaking audit and research projects, to further own and teams clinical practice within each rotation. To be involved in making recommendations for changes to practice and procedures for the relevant clinical area, and the implementation of these changes.

- Contribute to the Clinical Governance and Quality agenda by active participation in service initiatives, health and safety and risk management.

- Develop and share own clinical knowledge with other members of the wider clinical team.

- Engage in clinical supervision in order to gain an appreciation of its value in clinical practice

- Identify own development needs, aligning these to service requirements and personal aspirations. Proactively develop and improve own practice using all available resources

- Understand and contribute to the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies/ protocols/ guidelines relevant to the specialist area.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Active registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council NMC
• Evidence of ongoing professional development through maintenance of professional portfolio and registration revalidation

Experience

Essential

• Experience (through placement or employment) of working in an acute clinical environment

Desirable

• Previous Day Surgery experience
• Previous experience in a relevant speciality

Skills

Essential

• Able to prioritise own workload and that of others as appropriate
• Personally resilient and able to manage complexity and work in an ambiguous or changing environment.
• Excellent presentational, communication and interpersonal skills
• Demonstrates ability to use clinical reasoning skills and techniques to assess and plan care: deliver, evaluate and amend the treatment plan.
• Acts as a role model and are able to lead by example to ensure the Trust's Values and behaviour's are reinforced throughout their area of practice.
• Able to effectively and appropriately escalate concerns to reduce risk and promote patient safety

Desirable

• Demonstrates ability to keep up to date with professional issues that influence nursing practice relating to area of clinical practice, management, education and research.
• Able to supervise non-registered and less experienced staff to ensure effective service and care delivery.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Gloucestershire Royal Hospital

Gloucester

GL1 3NN

Employer's website

https://www.gloshospitals.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)