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We are offering a ward manager role on our Renal wards.
Can you Provide Clinical Expertise and visible leadership and support for the Renal acute care unit and Renal Wards. Enable staff to ensure that the fundamentals of care are correctly and actively in place and that highest standards of holistic care are achieved in the delivery of care and treatment. Directly manage the ward areas and the nursing staff. The expectations of this role will be met by professional leadership, skilled and expert practice and management, direct clinical care, education and training. Develop and update guidelines and related practice in line with current research.
Monitor standards of care, manage selection, deployment, training and development of staff and students. Assesses and develops and implements specialised nursing packages of care and is responsible for maintenance of standards by all members of the multi-disciplinary team. Create and support an environment of lifelong learning and continuous professional development. Provides highly specialised nursing advice to ensure appropriate treatment and care is delivered to the patient at all times. Refers and orders specialised tests in line with agreed protocols and clinical governance guidelines To assist in the development of evidence based practice in the renal service.
To have responsibility for the following aspects of care and management:
- Ensure that all care delivered is evidence based and that guidelines are up to date.
- Monitor standards of care using fundamentals of care audit framework.
- Selection, deployment, training and development of staff and students
- Assess, develops and implement specialised nursing packages of care in collaboration
with the multi-disciplinary team to maintain standards.
- To create and support an environment of lifelong learning and continuous
professional development
- Refers and orders specialised tests in line with agreed protocols and clinical governance guidelines.
- To assist in the development of evidence based practice in the renal service.
- Delivers specialist haemodialysis treatments including HDF & SLED in acute setting.
- Delivers specialist respiratory care acute CPAP,Optiflow and Bipap
- Educational strategies that ensure patient care needs are met.
- Provides highly specialised nursing advice to ensure appropriate treatment and care is delivered to
the patient at all times in line with NICE guidelines and UK Kidney association guidelines.
- Is accountable for the provision, organisation and direction of the nursing care for the patient
in his/her care.
St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George’s Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).
After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.
At gesh we are committed to supporting flexible working arrangements. Applicants are encouraged to discuss any flexibility they may need during the recruitment process.
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