Staff Nurse

The post holder will work according to the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and relevant professional guidelines and take responsibility for:

• Protecting and supporting the health of individual patients and clients
• Assessment of care and health education needs
• Development, implementation, and evaluation of programmes of care including referring patient to community services when necessary.
• Under supervision, to gain experience and skills in Clinical Practice, facilitation and teaching and management as appropriate.
• To work in accordance with Whittington Health Nursing and Midwifery Strategy and contribute towards achieving the Trust objectives.
• To maintain effective communication
• To take charge of the department in the absence of senior nursing staff following performance appraisal review.
• Provide support to the clinical nurse specialists in the various outpatient clinics.
• Assist in carrying out Health & Safety, Fire and hand Hygiene audits as required.
• Support the Health Care Assistants and assess their competence where necessary.
  
  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. For more information, please access the following link:https://www.whittington.nhs.uk