Staff Nurse- Renal Medicine

+ To provide high quality, effective, individualised care to all patients by assessing care needs and developing, implementing and evaluating them without supervision
+ To assist the ward manager in leading the nursing team and deputise in their absence
+ Monitor standards of nursing care and take appropriate action to maintain and improve them
+ To respond to patients, relatives and carers concerns as they arise and take remedial action as required.

Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health., The Imperial College Renal and Transplant Centre opened at the Hammersmith Hospital in November 2005 and has become the largest facility of its kind in Europe, offering a comprehensive range of inpatient and outpatient services to our patient group. There are 4 inpatient wards which includes an HDU providing Level 2 care and 3 Level 0/1 wards. There is also a programmed investigation unit offering a ward attender/day case service of 18 beds.
De Wardener is the renal HDU a hybrid ward and specialises in the care of renal patients who require intensive monitoring for highly complex needs. This includes patients who have had a kidney or a kidney and pancreas transplant and patients who require non-invasive ventilatory support such as CPAP, BiPAP and High flow oxygen and/or tracheostomy care and inotropic support .There is also a 'lines' room on de Wardener where access for dialysis is inserted under imaging guidance. (Tunnelled central vascular catheters for haemodialysis and peritoneal catheters.)
As a Band 5 Nurse you will get to work with world renowned doctors, transplant surgeons and clinical nurse specialists. Should you develop a deeper interest in renal specific nursing whilst working on our acute wards you will have access to our renal course accredited by Bucks University at level 6 and 7 this provides a comprehensive training in all key areas of renal nursing.