Job Description
Acute Assessment Unit/Acute Medicine Unit
Band 6Junior Sister/Charge Nurse
Are you a registered nurse looking for your next position? Have you got an interest in acute medicine? If you want to work in a dynamic and fulfilling team environment then this job is for you!
Acute Medicine /Acute Assessment Unit has 64 beds specialises in general assessment that receives direct from clinics and A&E referral for general medical patients. For further information please contact, Sylvie Fernandes / Junrose Silvano Ward Manager’s on
020 8321 6535 or 6730.
We offer Training and Development Programme and a range of experiences in nursing patients with acute medical problems. Applicants should have a keen interest in acute medicine, be motivated team players with good all round communication skills. The Full time hours are 37.5 with Internal Rotation to Night Duty and Long days.
To apply for this post please visit our web site on: www.chelwest.nhs.ukwhere the application form, job description and person specification will be available.
WestMiddlesex University HospitalNHS Trust is an Equal Opportunities employer and is committed to flexible working arrangements.
MAIN DUTIES:
Maintaining high standards of patients care throughout the patient’s journey.
- To acquire basic and advanced nursing skills for acute medical services.
- To liaise closely with social services, other health professionals like therapist, and the wards to ensure the safety and wellbeing of patients seen in the unit.
- To mentor and assess student nurses.
- To coordinate and facilitate the effective running of the unit at all times and be able to deputize for the ward manager in her absence.
- Ensure all activity is recorded on the electronic patient tracking in a timely manner.
About the Trust
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East.
We have nearly 7,000 members of staff that are PROUD to Care for nearly one million people. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children’s, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.
We’re one of the best performing Trusts in the country. We’re also one of the top trusts to work for – our staff says they’re engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment. Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as ‘Good’ in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of ‘Good’. We’ve also been awarded an ‘Outstanding’ rating for ‘use of resources’ by an NHS Improvement inspection.
Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing significant Capital year on year in our estate. We have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and are planning an ambitious £60m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at West Middlesex.
JOB SUMMARY:
- To anticipate the care needs of patients and actively manage the patient’s journey through the unit, including advanced life support and assessment.
- To support, and work with the Ward Manager to provide effective unit management. Specifically this will include: staff management, stocks and patients care delivery
- To pro-actively participate in the planning, assessing, implementation and evaluation of patient care as part of the multi-disciplinary team from admission to discharge.
- To deliver care in accordance with the NMC Code of Practice/Scope of Professional Practice and the Trust’s and AMU/AAU policies and protocols.
- To act as an advocate for the patient and family at all times.
- To ensure the safety of patients in accordance with local and national safeguarding procedures.
- To participate in auditing effectiveness and incorporate finding into practice.
Actively work to help achieve the A&E targets both local and national
Key Working Relationships:
- AMU/AAU consultants
- Accident and emergency department
- Site team
- Specialists Consultants
- Clinical staff including specialists nurses and doctors
- Infection Control team
- Community partners
- Urgent Care Centre
- Support Services
Different Wards
We will ‘go beyond’ for our patients and communities. Our organisation will:
- Be a major, multi-site healthcare provider and teaching hospital with 1,000 beds and more than £500m revenue; expanded and improved services in a number of areas
- Have a combined workforce of 5,000 staff with better training and development opportunities, including a wider choice of sub-specialties, greater choice of location and increased best practice
- Have a high volume and high quality local secondary services, with combined acute emergency admissions of around 290,000 annually and an increased patient population of one million.