Registered Nurse (Adult) - Rehabilitation Unit

Are you a newly qualified Band 5 looking to gain core nursing experience in a specialist field? We invite you to join our dynamic team.

At St Pancras Rehabilitation Unit, there is a strong emphasis on patient-centred assessment, evidence-based care planning, self-management, and culturally sensitive care. The SPRU nursing team pride themselves in having a unique role in completing detailed patient-centred assessment, care planning, and the implementation of treatment strategies that are based on evidence-based practice. The SPRU nursing team also have a unique role in identifying, assessing, and supporting patients with self-administration of medication (SAM).

The Nursing team in SPRU has strong links with specialist nursing teams such as the Rapid Response, Tissue Viability, Diabetic Nurses, District nursing, and the Palliative Nurse Specialists. There is an embedded multi-professional shared skills programme on the unit.

Main duties of the job

The role will be based in our St Pancras Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit. The St Pancras Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit in Camden has consistently been rated as Good both by the external CQC visit last year and our organisation-wide internal review processes. Part of this rigorous assessment is to assess the quality of care and the support, leadership, and training and development opportunities that the unit offers to staff. The unit is consistently achieving Outstanding for the compassion of care that staff provide there. The unit provides rehabilitation services for people requiring:

1. Neurological rehabilitation
2. Complex rehabilitation following a deterioration in functioning
3. Disability management

We are looking for nurses who are kind and caring but also understand the importance of rehabilitation and working with patients to improve their independence. In return for everything you give, you will receive support, development, dedicated supervision, and a first-class learning experience of all aspects of rehabilitation nursing. We operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and you will be expected to work on a rota. You will be part of a multi-disciplinary team of doctors, therapists, social workers, and health care assistants all focused on rehabilitating our patients to returning home where possible.

About us

The St Pancras Rehabilitation Unit (SPRU) offers specialist rehabilitation services for patients living within the North Central London catchment area. Key rehabilitation pathways include multi-pathology, frailty, stroke, and neurology. The Nursing staff play an important role in delivering the ethos of a 24-hour rehabilitation and making every contact count. The SPRU nursing team works closely with the doctors, therapists, pharmacists, and social care teams to deliver high-quality, patient-centred rehabilitation programmes in partnership with the service users and their families.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust, we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues, and of course patients and service users when working in our healthcare settings.

Job description

Job responsibilities

As nurses, we have to understand that no two days are the same; we will be faced with challenges, emergencies, and problems, and we have to be able to problem-solve and adapt to keep the workflow moving.

As a nurse on the ward, you are expected to work as part of the multi-disciplinary team. You need to be able to communicate and conduct yourself in a professional manner at all times.

We have a lot of resources available, so you need to use them.

It is your responsibility to teach and educate staff to the best of your ability, whether it's sharing knowledge, experience, or wisdom. Nursing is a profession where new concepts and evidence-based practice are explored, and this needs to be shared amongst the team.

• Central and North West London NHS Trust expects all Band 5 nurses to act in a way which shows you understand our core values and are willing to put them into practice with service users, their friends, family, and carers, and also other staff members.
• As a Band 5 nurse, we expect you to show COMPASSION, contribute to a caring and kind environment, and recognise that what you do and say can make the lives of others better.
• We expect you to RESPECT everyone and acknowledge and welcome people's differences rather than ignore them or see them as problematic.
• We expect you to EMPOWER others and continually try to provide information, resources, and support to help others make their own decisions and meet their own needs.
• We expect you to work in PARTNERSHIP and behave in a way that shows that you recognise that commissioners and users of our services are the people who generate and pay for our work.
• As a nurse, you have to use your clinical judgement and risk assessments to keep the people using our services as safe as possible.
• Safeguarding people by recognising and responding when an adult or child might be at risk from abuse but also recognising their own limits and asking for help and escalating concerns when necessary.
• Escalating safety concerns and by doing so acting as effective advocates for those who use our services.
• Being open and transparent about their own practice.
• Supervising the work of others.
• Reflecting on everyday practice to identify areas where improvements in safety or quality can be made.
• Working with others to create a culture of continuous improvement.
• Maintaining accurate, legible, comprehensive records.
• Maintaining compliance with their mandatory training requirements.
• The NMC plays an important role in safeguarding the public by regulating the work of nurses, and all nurses, including Band 5 nurses, are expected to register with the NMC each year and adhere to the NMC Code of Conduct.
• As a Band 5, you are expected to provide skilled, evidence-based nursing care which adheres to agreed policies and procedures.
• Working with patients and families in all stages of the care planning process, including assessing risks and needs.
• Acting as patient advocates in the multi-disciplinary team and overseeing the work of others to ensure that they are also responding to the needs of patients and providing clinically effective care.
• Working as autonomous practitioners and taking responsibility for the care they give to patients but within their own limits of competency and confidence.
• Contributing to creating and maintaining high-performing teams by:
• communicating well with all members of the team.
• understanding their role in the team and how they help the team achieve its objectives.
• reflecting on their own practice regularly and encouraging the whole team to reflect on their practices in handovers and team meetings.
• identifying how care could be improved.
• As a Band 5 nurse, you have to work in partnership with patients and their families and carers to ensure that the people using our services feel respected and empowered to make decisions about their health and wellbeing.
• Gaining consent and, as far as possible, involving people in all decision-making.
• Signposting patients and carers to supportive services e.g. the courses provided by the Recovery and Wellbeing College or services provided by the local authority or the voluntary sector.
• Reassuring people by being professional, responsive, knowledgeable, and confident.
• Responding to complaints or concerns effectively and quickly in line with the Trust policy.

Person Specification

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Able to communicate with the multi-disciplinary team, present cases, take note of actions, update others in the team, and use handover effectively. Speaking face to face but also by telephone and writing letters and reports.
• Maintaining accurate, timely, concise, and legible clinical records both electronic and handwritten which adhere to the CNWL policies.
• Care planning: being able to assess patients, develop, implement, and evaluate a care plan.
• Empowering and working in partnership.
• Safeguarding and advocacy.
• Understanding how the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards impacts on their work and the people they are working with.
• Understanding how the Mental Health Act impacts on their work and the people they are working with.
• Understanding the concept of quality and their role in improving safety, clinical outcomes, and the patient experience.
• Infection control and Aseptic Non Touch Technique.
• Manual Handling patients.
• Obtaining Consent.
• Medicines management and administration.
• Work well with other members of the team including communicating effectively, being kind and considerate, reliable and enthusiastic.
• Help others in the team achieve their objectives and deliver safe, effective care.
• Mentor, teach, and support others in the team. Supervise others in the team.
• Facilitate appraisals and performance manage others in the team.
• Contribute to the culture of the team and play a role in making it inclusive, kind, and hard-working.
• Able to talk to people about sensitive issues in a supportive manner but also challenge others assertively where necessary.
• Able to maintain electronic patient records.
• Use Microsoft applications for letter and report writing.

Experience

Essential

• Previous experience either as a band 5 nurse, a student nurse, or health care assistant is desirable.

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered nurse Adult.
• Numeracy skills required for the safe administration of medicines.

Desirable

• Evidence of relevant Continuous Professional Development.

Attitudes, aptitudes, personal characteristics

Essential

• Caring for the people who use our services, their families and carers, and other staff.
• Respectful of others and genuinely treating them how you would want to be treated.
• Able and willing to work with service users, family and carers, and other staff in a way which empowers and supports others and makes them feel better about themselves.
• Able and willing to work in partnership with service users, their friends and family, as well as other health care professionals.
• Reliable.
• Positive.
• Flexible and willing to adopt change.
• Professionally brave and willing to act as an advocate for your patients whilst at the same time recognizing that resources are not limitless.
• As a professional registered nurse, you will be expected to be willing to accept responsibility for your decisions/actions.

Employer details

Employer name

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St Pancras Hospital
4 St Pancras Way
Camden
NW1 0PE

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