Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Delivering high quality, evidence-based and patient focused clinical carethrough:
• Delivering a high standard of evidence-based care to patients.
• Ensuring good standards of care for the patient are maintained at all times.
• Adhering to NMC Code of Professional conduct at all times.
• Involving and supporting patients, relatives, carers and friends in the careprocess.
• Promoting well-being and involving patients and relatives in health education.
• Ensuring clear and accurate written and verbal information is given at alltimes.
• Ensuring contemporaneous record keeping at all times.
• Seeking advice from more senior/experienced members of staff whereappropriate.

Working effectively as part of the immediate team and wider multidisciplinary team (MDT) through:
• Liaising effectively with all members of the MDT to ensure patients’ needs are met.
• Exercising leadership and taking the initiative where appropriate.
• Providing support and advice to ward/unit staff (especially junior staff) on clinical and administrative issues.
• Liaising with discharge coordinator / bed manager to ensure effective
admission/discharge of patients.
• Keeping the ward/unit sister / charge nurse informed of significant changes and/or anticipated problems.

Upholding a duty of care and clinical governance through:
• Observing a general duty of care for the health, safety and well-being ofyourself, work colleagues, visitors and patients within the hospital.
• Ensuring the rules, policies, procedures and standards of King’s CollegeHospital NHS Trust Foundation together with all relevant statutory andprofessional obligations are adhered to at all times.
• Maintaining patient confidentiality, dignity and privacy at all times.
• Adhering to the Trust’s policy on valuing equality and diversity and showing due regard for each patient’s cultural and religious beliefs, gender, ethnicity, age and sexuality.
• Strictly adhering to the National Code of Practice on Infection Control.

Person specification

Qualifications
Essential criteria

• Registered Nurse (RN1) with active NMC registration at time of starting appointment