Endoscopy Nurse

at  The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

CLINICAL:

• To practice in accordance with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and Trust Policies, Procedures and Guidelines
• To ensure high quality, evidence-based care is provided to patient in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team
• Responsible for carrying out clinical practice within designated clinical areas. Ensuring high quality, current evidence-based nursing assessment, planning, implementation, interventions are delivered from admission to discharge
• To be flexible and willing to be redeployed to an area within the sphere of their clinical expertise to provide clinical support and assist with facilitating safe staffing across the Trust when required
• To ensure that all patients’ have a safe and effective discharge plan. To collaborate with the integrated discharge team for complex discharges.
• To undertake the Shift Co-ordinator (nurse in charge) role on a shift basis once competency is achieved
• To consistently organise and deliver individualised patient care, ensuring patient physical, social and psychological needs are met
• Liaise with a multidisciplinary approach to care in collaboration with carers, health care professionals and other agencies
• Recognise the significance of observations made, and use them to develop and initiate nursing assessments and devise a plan of care.
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  To succeed, you’ll need to be committed to delivering high quality, patient focused care with pride and respect, have excellent interpersonal skills and be able to provide evidence of personal and professional development. With recent acute NHS experience as a must, we’ll train you in our endoscopy services and along the way, you’ll be supported by our in-house endoscopy educator with access to some of the most sought-after bespoke courses to progress your knowledge and experience in this field.
  Our procedures are varied and diverse and include diagnostics, therapeutics and surveillance, gastroscopy, flexible sigmoidoscopy, colonoscopy, PEG insertion, bronchoscopy / EBUS delivering high quality care to our patients so, there is a real range of specialisms to develop your skills and experience.
  The post holder will assess, plan, evaluate and deliver all relevant aspects of the care of patients undergoing endoscopic procedures in a caring, compassionate and sensitive manner. Work closely with the multi-disciplinary team and contribute to the clinical governance process. As part of this role, you will be trained in the use of specialized endoscopy equipment utilized within the rooms, undertake cannulation, venepuncture, nurse led consent and nurse led discharge. The successful candidate must be willing to be proactive in assisting with improvement work and audits conducted on endoscopy.
  Our Organisation
  The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.
  We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop’s Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.
  Our Values
  The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:
  Patient at heart – Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts
  Everyday excellence – Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both
  Creative collaboration – Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care
  The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.
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