Bank Dressing Service Nurse

Are you an experienced, dynamic autonomous Nurse looking for a flexible job? Greenwich Health is looking for a qualified Nurse to work in our dressing clinics across the borough of Greenwich. The sessions are for 4 hours and you can work on a flexible basis, booking shifts to suit you.

Working across 4 existing locations to suit. We are looking for current NMC registered Nurses with a recent wound care update (within past year) to work 4 hour shifts during the week and weekend. Indemnity is provided.

Appointment slots seeing the following:

• General wounds (cuts and grazes)
• Leg ulcers (compression during the week only, not weekends)
• Post I & D abscess
• Surgical post op wound (including plastics for finger crush injuries)
• Suture removal
• Burns (Follow Up)
• Foot dressings (inc ulcers, podiatry and post op in-growing toe nail)
• Animal bites (Follow Up)

Principal duties and responsibilities

• To be responsible for setting high standards of care within the resources available and to review and monitor these on a continuous basis, through the process of audit, to ensure continuing quality of care.
• Contribute to the delivery of evidence based personalised and compassionate care placing quality at the heart of specialist practice.
• To undertake nurse‑led clinics to ensure continuity of service provision.
• To maintain high quality clinical electronic and paper records as applicable respecting confidentiality at all times.

Greenwich Health is committed to providing quality of care to our patients whilst building resilience for General Practice and delivering services and programmes of work to deliver care at scale to the Greenwich Population.

• 1st level Registered Nurse (R.G.N) qualified to Diploma /Degree level
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Exposure or experience in wound management.
• Good interpersonal and customer service skills
• Ability to work as part of a team and on own initiative
• Ability to work under pressure and to prioritise workload
• Ability to maintain confidentiality

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.