Emergency Care Nurse/Paramedic

Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust; Lewisham; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust is seeking a senior nurse or paramedic to join the Specialist Team, delivering expert care in routine and emergency settings with a focus on resuscitation and trauma exposure.

You will assess patients, recognise deteriorating conditions, escalate promptly and manage initial treatment, while supporting professional development and multidisciplinary collaboration within the clinical team.

Qualifications

• Experience as a senior nurse or paramedic in emergency care.
• Expert clinical skills in patient assessment and management.
• Ability to coordinate care and support professional development.
• Experience in resuscitation settings.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality care in resuscitation and emergency areas.
• Assess patients and recognise deterioration and escalate appropriately.
• Coordinate handovers and engage multidisciplinary teams.
• Support staff development and participate in EDI initiatives.

Skills

Clinical assessment

Deterioration recognition

Escalation

Handover

Trauma/emergency care

Job description

you will be working as part of a Specialist Team providing expert nursing/midwifery practice and cost-effective service to patients requiring routine and emergency care. To work primarily, but not exclusively, in the resuscitation area to provide, develop and coordinate high quality care to patients attending with emergency and trauma care needs. As a senior nurse or paramedic, you will hold expert clinical skills in patient assessment, recognition of the deteriorating patient, effective escalation and/or handover as well as initial patient management of acute illness and trauma. As a senior member of the nursing team you will participate in and support wider team professional development and work with the wide range of clinicians and teams within the clinical setting.,

• Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
• Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
• Improving the experience of staff with disability
• Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
• Making equalities mainstream

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations