Staff Nurse

Job overview

Are you considering a career in Intensive Care as the next step on your Band 5 pathway or as a newly qualified Registered Nurse? At Imperial, our Critical Care department is in a period of expansion to 100 ICU beds across units. We are therefore looking to recruit into multiple new nursing roles.

As a result, we have reviewed and redeveloped our new starter pathway, to ensure it meets the needs for new to practice Registered Nurses and those that may not have previous ICU or acute hospital experience. What we do ask is that you have a desire to be developed, learn and are able to thrive in a busy, acute, challenging environment.

We provide new recruits to the specialty with a 16-week induction programme, during which you will be supported to gain IV competence. Classroom-based training takes place alongside 10 weeks of supernumerary practice.  Additionally, you will attend study days in pain, epidural management, and Immediate Life Support.

This structured pathway will prepare you for enrolment to the university based Critical Care Course, which provides the opportunity to progress to a Band 6 role.

Hammersmith Hospital Intensive Care Unit has 36 beds across two ICUs, specialising in Cardiac Surgery, Upper GI, Hepatobiliary, Renal, Cardiology and Haematology. It also supports the provision of emergency care for Northwest London’s Heart Attack Service.

Main duties of the job

• Carry out planned care for a group of patients without direct supervision
• Ensure the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of evidence based. individualised patient care
• Assist and advise staff, both registered and unregistered in the delivery of patient care
• Maintain accurate clinical observations of the patient and act accordingly
• Undertake nursing procedures
• Have responsibility for the correct administration and custody of medicines according to trust policy.
• Monitor patients’ progress, work towards safe and timely discharge plans and ensure barriers to discharge are identified and acted on appropriately

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.