Patch Senior Staff Nurse

This position offers the post holder an exciting opportunity to join the PATCH team "Providing Assessment and Treatment for Children at Home", with support from the Paediatric Emergency Department (PED) and Paediatric Ward Senior Management team at St Mary's site.

The post holder will use their clinical experience and skills to independently assess and manage acutely unwell children, ensuring all children referred to the PATCH team receive high quality, compassionate and effective care at home.

The post holder will utilise face to face, virtual and telephone consultations and where escalation of treatment is required, liaise with the hospital teams ensuring timely care is maintained.This role requires travel to patient's homes via public transport and lone working.

Main duties of the job

• Ensure high standards of patient care at all times challenging and ensuring others challenge poor practice, in accordance with the NMC Professional Code of Conduct.
• Ensure local plans support all clinical quality external accreditation, for example the Care Quality Commission (CQC)
• Ensure agreed systems and process to consistently provide safe, effective high quality patient care and embed a culture of quality improvement
• Through visible clinical leadership ensure that the delivery of kind, compassionate and respectful care takes place, in line with the Trust PROUD values.
• Ensure that the delivery of care meets the individual needs of all patients and families.
• Ensure that all patient care is assessed, planned, prioritised and high quality, both physical and psychological delegating to support staff as required. Seek advice and support from other staff as required.
• In accordance with the individualised patient care, ensure clinical assessments are taken, results recorded and any appropriate actions taken based on the results.
• Ensure the maintenance of professional contemporaneous records at all times, document all actions and interventions in a clear and honest and timely manner in line with Trust policy.
• Ensure nursing team monitors patient progress, working towards safe and timely intervention.

About us

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview. .

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person Specification Education

• Part 1 Registered Nurse - Child or equivalent
• Level 3 Safeguarding
• PILS certificate
• Evidence of further study
• Advanced Assessment Course

Experience

• Experience working in a team
• Experience working in the Emergency Department
• Community nursing experience

Skills

• Clinical documentary competence in IV Drug Administration
• Clinical assessment skills
• Ability to manage own time and prioritise
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills necessary to interact with the patients; the multidisciplinary team; emergency services; and the outside agencies necessary for the efficient running of the service

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.