Staff Nurse

Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

Watford Satellite Dialysis Band 5 Staff Nurse

Hammersmith Hospital, located in West London is home to the “hub” of our modern, dynamic and very large Renal and Transplant service. Renal Services at this site include an acute renal replacement therapy unit, a peritoneal dialysis unit, a highly successful deceased and live donor transplantation service, inpatient nephrology care (including high dependency and intensive care), a dedicated renal assessment and admissions unit and our renal out-patient clinics.

We also have nine haemodialysis centres, and we are currently recruiting for the Watford Satellite Unit

Dialysis patients typically spend many years under our care, and we develop and enjoy close relationships with them and their families.

Much of the management and care of our dialysis patients is nurse-led. Staff nurses learn to manage renal anaemia, renal bone metabolism, arterio-venous access, optimization of dialysis treatment outcomes and much more.

You will learn how best to support people living with long-term conditions. If you are interested, we can help you arrange to rotate to other parts of the Renal Service to gain wide clinical experience.

• To provide high quality, effective, individualised care to all haemodialysis patients
• To assess care needs and develop, implement and evaluate them without supervision

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

• Registered Nurse

• BSC/MSC

Experience

• A minimum 6 months experience in a medical ward or acute care setting.

• Experience in haemodialysis

Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities

• Willingness to develop teaching skills
• Basic IT skills
• Ability to learn new technical skills
• Knowledge of the NMC Code of Conduct

• Have an interest in professional development