Registered Nurse Band 5 ENT Outpatients

at  Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

As a Registered Nurse working in the ENT Outpatient department, you will be expected to: - Help ensure the delivery of high-quality nursing care. - You will need to communicate effectively with patients, carers, relatives and all members of the multidisciplinary team. - Demonstrate effective management of own time to manage caseload of patients within a defined scope of practice. - Adhere to professional accountability and standards, ensuring that professional practices are in line with the requirements of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and Trust policy.

• Take on responsibility for your own personal development and support other members of the team. - Provide assurance that the clinical governance procedures and protocols are embedded and adhered to in respect to risk, safety, and quality improvement. - Demonstrate and provide holistic, patient centered care. - Demonstrate an ability to assess patient condition and implement appropriate care within your scope of practice.
• Deliver safe care within a challenging and changing clinical environment, using equipment and resources safely and as appropriate. - Administer medication and treatment within procedure for the ordering, prescribing and administration of medication guidelines. - Deliver and receive information which may cause emotional distress to all parties involved. - Act as a mentor for students and junior members of staff.
• Have an understanding of, and be able to use of our IT systems. - Assist the team in the day to day running of the clinical area. - Respond to emergency situations with composure, maintaining patient safety and seeking immediate support, supporting the patient, family and other staff as required. - Communicate effectively with patients and carers potentially complex, sensitive or distressing information.
• Maintain clear, accurate and concise patient records in line with departmental and professional standards and include relevant outcome measures. - Maintain patient dignity and confidentiality at all times.

• Take on responsibility for your own personal development and support other members of the team. - Provide assurance that the clinical governance procedures and protocols are embedded and adhered to in respect to risk, safety, and quality improvement. - Demonstrate and provide holistic, patient centered care. - Demonstrate an ability to assess patient condition and implement appropriate care within your scope of practice.
• Deliver safe care within a challenging and changing clinical environment, using equipment and resources safely and as appropriate. - Administer medication and treatment within procedure for the ordering, prescribing and administration of medication guidelines. - Deliver and receive information which may cause emotional distress to all parties involved. - Act as a mentor for students and junior members of staff.
• Have an understanding of, and be able to use of our IT systems. - Assist the team in the day to day running of the clinical area. - Respond to emergency situations with composure, maintaining patient safety and seeking immediate support, supporting the patient, family and other staff as required. - Communicate effectively with patients and carers potentially complex, sensitive or distressing information.
• Maintain clear, accurate and concise patient records in line with departmental and professional standards and include relevant outcome measures. - Maintain patient dignity and confidentiality at all times