Staff Nurse Oral & MFS & Plastics

at  Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

PART-TIME: 22.5 HOURS PER WEEK

We are looking for an experienced and motivated nurse with excellent communication skills to work in our maxillofacial outpatient department. We are a small MDT comprising of registered nurses, registered dental nurses, health care assistant and surgeons.
Surgical experience within minor head and neck and plastic surgery and/or experience of wound management would also be desirable but not essential, full training and supervision will be provided.

DESIRABLE CRITERIA

• Recent clinical audit involvement
  Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
  References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
  Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
  Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
  DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

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APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

MAIN DUTIES OF THE JOB

The job role will involve:
1. delivering nurse led specialised dressings clinics. This will give the post holder the opportunity to learn specialised wound management skills, training, support & guidance from the senior nursing team will be provided as required.
2. Supporting and assisting the plastics, maxillofacial and oral surgeons as a scrub nurse in the minor plastics and oral procedures clinic within our OPD - patient procedures are undertaken using local anaesthetic. You will act as a patient advocate and have the opportunity to follow your patient’s journey from diagnosis to discharge.
Extensive training and support will be given by the senior nursing team, this is an exciting opportunity for any nurse who is interested in Tissue Viability/Skin Cancer Management.
3. Supporting the running of outpatient clinics.

DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION AND MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

For further information and requirements about the post please download the job Description and Person specification