Staff Nurse

at  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 nurses to join our team who are highly 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 return you 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.
The successful candidate will be
For further information, please, email Emma Schrimshaw at Emma.Schrimshaw1@nhs.net
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 patients accessing a range of breast specialty clinics and nurse led services. Working as a highly skilled member of the collaborative breast multidisciplinary team, the registered nurse will practice safe, effective and efficient clinical care, whilst following 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.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

Communication and Relationship Skills
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 and mobility where required
4. Perform venepucture
Wound management
Performs core skills unsupervised, seeking support and guidance from senior nurses as needed

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 activities where 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 and other 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