Recovery staff Nurse

Post holder will be able to assist in the daily planning and organisation of the recovery area for clinical procedures of the post surgical patient. Post holder will be expected to recover patients providing individualised care and maintaining a high quality evidence based clinical care. Monitor and and maintain the quality of nursing care achieving the set standards set by the department. Checking,witnessing and administration of controlled drugs. Participating in the post anaesthetic/operative care of the patients. Post holder should be able to demonstrate a thorough understanding of how to use equipment safely and effectively., Receiving patients from Theatre and ensuring a complete and safe handover is given my Anaesthetist/Theatre staff. Ensuring airway management is maintained and all observations are within acceptable ranges. Pain management and control using appropriate analgesia when required. Temperature monitoring and intervention when required. Administration of all prescribed drugs including controlled drugs. An ability to use administration pumps/Pain Controlled Analgesia pumps safely and effectively. Wound care and management.

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.