Staff Nurse

Job responsibilities

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Supporting Tumour clinics to run smoothly and efficiently.
• Collecting patients for procedures.
• Checking PPID.
• Explain the procedure for Minor operations and ensuring the patient understands what is happening.
• Ensure that the patient is assisted into the procedure suite and made comfortable.
• Help alleviate patient's anxiety.
• Check the WHO checklist and assist the surgeon with the minor procedure.
• Ensure equipment is available and biopsy samples are managed correctly.
• Maintaining patient comfort and dignity.
• Administration of analgesia or appropriate prescribed medications.
• Following completion of the procedure the nurse will apply a dressing to the surgical site.
• Give wound care advice and post-procedure instructions.
• Ensuring that patient understands what they need to do to care for their wound and that they have appropriate follow-up in place.
• Communicate with relatives/carers as necessary/appropriate regarding relevant information.
• Support Outpatient clinics to run smoothly and efficiently.
• Working independently within nurse-led clinics, when competence achieved.
• Supporting both medical and nursing students who may be on placement/education days in the department.
• Administration of topical/oral medications to patients in the department, this may include explanations and giving advice regarding these medications and ensuring the patient understands how to apply them to the skin.
• may on occasion administer injectable medications if necessary.
• Ensure that patients have the correct investigations undertaken when needed in the department and signpost them to the appropriate departments if external to dermatology.
• Undertake Wound assessment/Nurse treat clinics, which involves wound assessment, giving biopsy results, undertaking wound dressing, referring on to community-based nursing colleagues as appropriate and involving dermatology doctors when appropriate - this will be once competence is achieved.
• Undertake skin prick testing and apply patch testing batteries to patients skin, thus supporting Allergy based clinics, once competence is achieved.
• Administer ultraviolet to patient once trained and competent to do so, thus supporting the Nurse-led Phototherapy clinics.

Values and Behaviours

Essential

• Able to demonstrate the ability to put patients at the heart of what you do and recognising different needs by encouraging a spirit of support, integrity, respect and teamwork.
• Shows pride in the quality of care they provide for patients and learning from successes and setbacks
• Able to deliver a high standard of care for patients and always striving to improve on what you do through change and innovation.

Clinical Practice

Essential

• Articulate and knowledgeable of skills needed to deliver a high standard of care in the area of practice.
• Able to work under own initiative within boundaries of role
• Demonstrates awareness of importance of working as part of a team.
• Able to document observations, results, decisions and actions etc. effectively in patient's notes and communicate these effectively to appropriate members of the multi-disciplinary team.
• Able to communicate effectively with patients/relatives and carers and all members of the multi-disciplinary team.
• Able to proactively contribute to the education of learners and non-registered and less experienced staff.

Education, training and qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse (Part 1. 8. 12 or 15 of register depending on area of practice).
• UK recognised Degree in Nursing relevant to post.
• Evidence of ongoing professional development through maintenance of an ongoing NMC revalidation.

Desirable

• Hold a recognised NMC qualification in teaching and mentoring.
• Evidence of achievement on a Nursing and Midwifery, (NMC) approved Mentorship qualification.

Leadership and Management

Essential

• Excellent communication skills.
• Able to prioritise own workload and that of others as appropriate.
• Demonstrates ability to maintain and contribute to the development of standards of practice, conduct or decision making in conjunction with team leaders/ward manager/unit co-ordinator.
• Acts as a role model and are able to lead by example to ensure the Trust's values and behaviours are reinforced throughout their area of practice.
• Able to supervise non-registered and less experienced staff to ensure effective care delivery.
• Able to effectively and appropriately escalate concerns to reduce risk and promote patient safety.

Desirable

• Previous experience of managing clinical incidents and complaints.
• Previous experience in the relevant specialty
• Previous management experience of specific clinical area

Personal Qualities and Physical Attributes

Essential

• Motivated and able to articulate reasons for desire to work in the specific practice area
• Being self-aware and able to accept constructive criticism
• Positive enthusiastic character
• Resilient under pressure
• Smart professional appearance
• Pleasant personality
• Able to undertake specific procedures involving physical skills commensurate with practice area.

Desirable

• Previous experience in the relevant specialty

Improving Quality and Developing Practice

Essential

• Understanding of professional and current issues related to area of practice.
• Demonstrates ability to keep up to date with professional issues that influence nursing practice relating to the area of clinical practice, management education and research.
• Able to identify own learning needs and ensure own professional development is maintained by keeping up to date with practice developments

Desirable

• Able to contribute to the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies/protocols/guidelines relevant to area of practice.
• Demonstrates ability to question and challenge nursing practice in a constructive way so that standards of patient care are continually evaluated and improved.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

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