IR/XMR Senior Staff Nurse/ODP

Job overview

Are you looking to learn and develop highly specialised skills in a supportive and innovative department where provision and maintenance of high quality & excellence of service to patients, parents and families is key.

Do you have existing leadership/management skills and experience or feel that you have excellent leadership potential waiting to be developed. Do you want to work in a leading Paediatric Centre and to join our friendly and Child centred Interventional Radiology Team? If your answers to the above are ‘Yes’, then this position could be for you! This post is to work within the Interventional Radiology department therefore peri-operative experience, such as scrub and circulating, would be desirable.  However, you will be given training and support in our specialist skills and in peri-operative care. We have an excellent and supportive Practice Education Team who will assist with your orientation and on-going professional development.

This is a dynamic and highly varied department which consists of 3 operating suites and runs a total of 24 sessions per week; providing a wide range of procedures, many of which are often highly innovative and complex. The patient cohort is from all specialties throughout the hospital for ages 0-18, and procedures include central venous access device insertion, biopsy, airway intervention, feeding device insertion, vascular intervention, angiography and angioplasty. We run a combination of GA and non-GA lists.

Main duties of the job

• To provide clinical leadership to a designated nursing team and ensure the provision of high quality nursing care to children and families.
• To act as a role model and expert clinical practitioner
• To assist in the safe, effective and efficient management of the department within allocated resources
• To promote a progressive attitude to the continual improvement of patient care through research and evidence based practice
• To undertake delegated responsibility for the department in the absence of the Ward Sister/Charge Nurse
• To be familiar with and adopt the principles of the NHS Chief Nursing Officers vision for Compassion In Practice (NHS Commissioning Board Dec 2012).
• Contribute towards achieving the ‘Great Ormond Street Hospital Vision for Nursing’ (Jan 2013).

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 documents please view the attachment/s below.

The Interventional Radiology department currently operates from 8am-6.30pm, Monday to Friday. Once sufficient experience and competency is achieved you will also be required to participate in rotation on the on-call rota and to rotate into the list coordinator role.

For further information please contact: Dhwani Barochia,

IR Team Leader on [email protected]