Job overview

The post is for a qualified nurse who wants to further their experience and skills in surgical nursing mainly in urology field. The post holder is also expected to have a flexible “can do” approach in ensuring the work of the department is carried out to the required high standards. The post holder will be expected to demonstrate excellent clinical skills and teach other staff and learners. The post holder will also be expected to be an excellent role model and treat all staff, visitors and service users with tact and courtesy.

• The post holder will contribute to the continuous evaluation of systems to improve the service and meet targets.
• The post holder will mainly provide support to flexible cystoscopy treatment room.
• The post holder is expected to have experience in urology investigations and willingness to learn and achieve urological skills that are required in Flexible Cystoscopy procedures.
• The post holder will also assist in the routine daily planning and organisation of Day Treatment Centre Ward for clinical procedures and practice and participate in the department’s administration as required.

• The post holder will be responsible for the assessment of care needs, the development of programmes of care and their implementation and evaluation.
• The post holder will carry out all relevant forms of care.
• The post holder will be a qualified nurse and registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council with an up to date PIN number

Main duties of the job

The post is for a qualified nurse who wants to further their experience and skills in surgical nursing mainly in urology field. The post holder is also expected to have a flexible “can do” approach in ensuring the work of the department is carried out to the required high standards. The post holder will be expected to demonstrate excellent clinical skills and teach other staff and learners. The post holder will also be expected to be an excellent role model and treat all staff, visitors and service users with tact and courtesy.

• The post holder will contribute to the continuous evaluation of systems to improve the service and meet targets.
• The post holder will mainly provide support to flexible cystoscopy treatment room.
• The post holder is expected to have experience in urology investigations and willingness to learn and achieve urological skills that are required in Flexible Cystoscopy procedures.
• The post holder will also assist in the routine daily planning and organisation of Day Treatment Centre Ward for clinical procedures and practice and participate in the department’s administration as required.

• The post holder will be responsible for the assessment of care needs, the development of programmes of care and their implementation and evaluation.
• The post holder will carry out all relevant forms of care.
• The post holder will be a qualified nurse and registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council with an up to date PIN number.

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will:

• Wear uniform at all times, in accordance with the trust uniform policy.
• Interact with patients, visitors to the department, other members of the nursing team and managers in positive, supportive and co-operative ways.
• Carry out such other reasonably related duties appropriate to the grade, as assigned by the the Theatre Matron, Ward Manager or nurse in charge.
• Be responsible for reporting their sick and annual leave in line with local and Trust policy.
• Undertake any other reasonable duty as directed to ensure the smooth running of the department.

Study leave must be negotiated with the team Leader and Practice Development Nurse and must reflect the organisation and individual requirements of the personal development plan. All learning should make a positive contribution to the department and nurses are expected to share their learning with their colleagues after attending a course or study day.

All staff with clinical responsibilities are expected to work within the clinical governance arrangements agreed by the Trust. This is through an established framework through which clinical staff are continuously accountable for improving the quality of services and safeguarding high standards of care by creating an environment in which excellent care will flourish. All clinical staff are expected to maintain appropriate knowledge about, and involvement in, agreed strategies and programmes to continually improve their standards of clinical care through:

• Patient and user involvement

• Risk and complaints management

• Clinical effectiveness and audit programmes

• Continuous Professional Development.

• Clinical research in accordance with DoH Governance requirements

• Provide only business email address for your referees – we are unable to request references from yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts.

• Make sure you to include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the jobs description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.

• Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.

• If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunately this means you have not been successfully shortlisted for interview. If your require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.

• Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence from us will be via trac.systems – occasionally these emails will go into your Junk folder.

• Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.