NHS Senior Staff Nurse - Critical Care Unit
Sanctuary Personnel
- Guernsey
- Contract
- Full-time
- Streamlined registration process: Enjoy our fully online and paperless registration service.
- Comprehensive compliance support: We provide free DBS checks and mandatory e-learning and practical training modules.
- Exclusive access: Gain access to a wide range of unique roles not available with other agencies, including opportunities in NHSBT, The Home Office, and Vaccination Centres.
- Referral bonus: Earn £250 for referring a friend once they have completed 100 hours of work with us.
- Find your own job bonus: Receive £250 when you bring your own position to us.
- Clinical governance and revalidation support: Benefit from guidance and support from our in-house qualified health professional with over 15 years of experience.
- Dedicated consultant: Your own consultant will provide personalized guidance throughout your journey with us.
- Timely payments: Our daily payroll and reliable in-house system ensure hassle-free and timely payments.
- Be responsible for delivering a high standard of care to high dependency and critically ill patients for allocated shifts, liaising with the multidisciplinary team and offering support and advice to patients, relatives and colleagues
- Deliver individualised patient care based on principles of best practice through developing a theoretical knowledge base for the care of patients with acute physiological needs
- Act as a role model to less experienced nursing staff and participate in the development of departmental initiatives to enhance High Dependency and Critical Care
- Assess, develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care for the critically ill
- Autonomously initiate urgent interventions as patient/client condition dictates
- Correctly interpreting changes in patient status and implementing prescribed plans of care
- Provide prescribed nursing care without supervision, within the level of the post-holder’s experience, referring to a more senior nurse when necessary
- Participate as team member, including supporting relatives and friends of patients/clients together with providing support for other patients/clients
- Maintain accurate records, both electronic and paper, of the care given in accordance with agreed standards
- Act in accordance with the NMC Code
- Independently liaise and communicate effectively with members of the nursing staff, multidisciplinary team and other associated agencies
- Degree or equivalent in Nursing (RGN qualified) with active NMC Registration (Adult)
- An in depth knowledge of ventilation, sepsis, renal replacement therapy and a thorough understanding of acute cardiac interventions, meeting the National Critical Care Competencies
- Demonstrate evidence-based practice
- Communicate effectively with patients/clients and significant others
- Post registration Critical Care experience
- Completed National Critical Care Competencies (or equivalent knowledge & skill obtained through experience)
- Experience co-ordinating care delivery of patient’s with complex care needs / Multi-organ failure
- Evidence of effective communication skills with particular reference to Multidisciplinary team working, service users, carers and managers
- Ability to prioritise and organise own workload
- Understanding and ability to apply evidence based care
- Evidence of self and professional development
- Professional approach to work
- Excellent interpersonal team leadership skills