Staff Nurse | Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

The Breast Symptomatic clinic nursing team at Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust are recruiting. We require two registered nursesto join our team who arehighly motivated and reliable,kind and honest, empathetic, respectful, confident and resilient. We are a supportive, and dedicated team with diverse experiences, knowledge, and skills. The successful applicants will join a friendly, dynamic and progressive team based within the Breast Care Unit on the Castle Hill Hospital site. You will be responsible for providing high quality patient centered care within breast specialty clinics and nurse led services. You will work under the supervision of the Junior Sister and Senior Matron and in partnership with the wider breast multidisciplinary team including the breast surgeons. You must be flexible in your approach to work, show evidence of effective teamwork and excellent communication. Be adaptable, able to lead and drive change whilst ensuring patient safety is always maintained. In returnyou will receive a wide range of training opportunities and comprehensive support for continual professional development. Please note that this advertised vacancy does not meet the UKVI eligibility requirements for a Skilled Worker Visa and therefore HUTH would not be able to issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.,

• Supports patients and their significant others, communicates clinical information using a variety of methods
• Ensures information is conveyed to the patient in a timely, understandable manner
• Demonstrates empathy and compassion toward patients and others
• Develops effective relationships with patients to assist them in making decisions about their care
• Ensures effective communication between the multidisciplinary team, taking personal responsibility to update and share information
• Initial handling complaints and staff issues in the absence of Junior Sister
• Provides accurate procedural information, offering patient health promotion
· Supports patients during intimate procedures, whilst receiving sensitive news and reassures anxious patients and their significant others Knowledge, Training and Experience
• Utilises professional knowledge to assess, plan, evaluate and implement patient care
• Maintains up to date knowledge in their field of practice, ensure professional requirements maintained
• Utilises opportunity for continuing development provide up to date patient care
• Comprehensive understanding of breast anatomy and physiology, breast conditions, treatments and the equipment involved. Conveys this understanding to other members of staff daily
• Provides phone and email advice and guidance triage support, organises the appropriate care for patients contacting department both in person and via the phone/email with breast concerns/issues
• Works autonomously within recognised limits during nurse led pre-operative assessment clinic and nurse led dressing clinic
• Assists clinicians with minor procedures - diagnostic and therapeutic
· Responsible for own developmental learning, performance and record of these Analytical Skills
• Monitors patient's health and well-being, informing appropriate personnel of any changes to their condition
• Initiates emergency treatment plans for unanticipated situations such as the deteriorating patient, anaphylaxis, hypoglycaemia, cardiac arrest, fire and security incidents
• Resolves problems associated with the day to day running of the department
· Uses medical equipment, to monitor and record baseline observations · Follows written and verbal instruction to ensure effective running of the clinic and to deliver treatment plans Planning and Organisational Skills
• Organises and supervises the workload of other staff
• Delegated workload against the needs of patients and service requirements
• Ensures the efficient running of breast clinics and effective safe patient flow through the clinical environment
• Assists the Junior Sister in the implementation of corporate and nursing objectives
Physical Skills
• Delivers core clinical skills which include a range of nursing duties to ensure the patients well-being, comfort and safety are always maintained, these will include but not exhaustive of:
1. Administration of medication 2. Assisting with minor procedures 3. Assisting patients with hygiene needs, eating, drinking andmobilitywhere required 4. Perform venepucture 1. Wound management
• Performs core skills unsupervised, seeking support and guidance from senior nurses as needed
RESPONSIBILITIES Responsibility for Patient/Client Care
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate the clinical pathway -responsible for ensuring the patient's treatment plan is followed
· Enables patients to meet daily living activitieswhere necessary
• Orders and obtains samples screening, acts appropriately on results outside of acceptable ranges
• Identify and improve standards of care, patient safety as required
· Ensure activity is patient centred Responsibilities for policy and service development · Adheres to the NMC professional code of conduct
• Uses their knowledge to contribute to service development andother initiatives
• Responsible for the preparation and setting up of the clinical environment including routine safety equipment checks
• Maintains the integrity and cleanliness of equipment ensuring correct use and storage
• Reports equipment faults, removing from the clinical area until repaired
• Alerts other team members of quality issues and risk in the care
Responsibility for financial and physical resources · Ensures supplies are available to deliver patient care, reports discrepancies · Uses specialist equipment to assist in patients care needs, following a period training · Responsible for the cleaning of clinical equipment · Uses resources appropriately and effectively Responsibility for staff/HR/Leadership/Training · Allocates and supervises the work of junior staff during their span of duty · Participates in the supervision, mentorship of students and preceptorship of new staff · Works as a team to deliver optimum patient care · Acts in a professional manner always,demonstrates a mutual respect for colleagues Responsibilities for information resources
• Responsible for providing accurate and timely records on patient care and performance using paper and IT based systems, in accordance with Trust policy
Responsibilities for Research and Development
• Participates in audits and research to assess the effectiveness of care interventions
• Contributes to benchmarking, disseminates best practice
• Ensuring practice is up to date, utilising evidence from national policy and research
Freedom to Act
• Works autonomously in accordance with NMC code of conduct, asks for assistance when required
• Use own judgement to define day to day work priorities and initiates plans affecting patient care
EFFORT AND ENVIRONMENT PhysicalEffort · The working environment is busy, and with completing demands. The post holder will have to assist a number of people at one time and will be interrupted frequently to meet the patients' needs and requests of staff. · Requires excellent organisational, time and stress management skills to complete the required tasks MentalEffort · Adaptable to the changing clinical priorities, which will include responding to emergency procedures · Work patterns requires staff to respond to frequent changes and unpredictable situations · Responsible for producing accurate patient records · To work autonomously within the confines of the role to deliver safe patient care · The post holder will be required to reflect on practice throughout the clinical session to make appropriate decisions about the clinical episode EmotionalEffort · Assist patients through a range of treatments and experiences, some of which may be highly sensitive, distressing and emotional

The post holder will be directly responsible for the support and delivery of care to adult patients attending the Breast Symptomatic clinics. As a registered nurse, the post holder is responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patientsaccessing a range of breast specialty clinics and nurse led services.Working as a highly skilled member of the collaborative breastmultidisciplinary team, the registered nurse will practice safe, effective and efficient clinical care, whilstfollowing the HUTH NHS Trust policies. The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion. Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve. Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH. As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology. We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.