Staff Nurse Outpatients

Maudsley Learning; Woolwich; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is seeking a Band 5 Named Nurse for the Outpatient Department in Woolwich. This full‑time, permanent role supports nurse managers and multidisciplinary teams to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care from check-in to discharge in the OPD setting.

The post requires UK professional registration, 2+ years of nursing experience and the ability to work flexibly across shifts. You will mentor students and junior staff while upholding high standards of care.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of nursing experience.
• Experience working in minor theatre.
• Must hold UK professional registration and be eligible to practice in the NHS.

Responsibilities

• Act as Named Nurse within a Team, responsible for assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care from check-in to check-out in the OPD setting.
• Be aware of current advances in clinical care and facilitate evidence-based practice.
• Develop and use protocols and standards for nursing care.
• Participate in evaluation, audit and research of nursing care and apply findings.
• Promote health and prevent ill health in staff, patients and relatives.
• Promote a safe and welcoming environment for patients, visitors and colleagues.
• Check readiness for emergency equipment and ensure equipment is in good working order.
• Record relevant patient/nursing data accurately in the system.

Skills

Nursing experience

Minor theatre experience

Education

UK professional registration

Job description

Main area Outpatient Department Grade Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday 08:00 - 18:00) Job ref 197-KH8824

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.

Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.

Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.

LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.

We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the IC S in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

Job overview

Accountable to Deputy Service General Manager / Head of Nursing, t he post holder will play a key role in supporting the nurse managers in providing high-quality care.

The post holder must be prepared to work within the divisions as a Named Nurses, within a Team, and take responsibility for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating nursing care.

The post holder will be a clinically credible practitioner who can provide effective

patient care in a range of clinical settings, having regard for relevant policies and the

The post holder will provide support and mentorship for students and junior nurses.

Main duties of the job

• To demonstrate knowledge of being up to date within the specialty.
• Flexible, able to work all shifts, and adaptable to changes in shift pattern.
• To provide unit cover in the absence of the unit manager.
• Ability to work under pressure, using initiative.
• The ability to undertake reflective thinking on own practice.
• Ability to conduct themselves in public and private situations in an appropriate manner.
• Ability to manage conflict
• Manual handling of patients, using lifting aids
• Minor operation exposure (dermatology)
• Wound management
• Bladder scanning
• Phlebotomy

Working for our organisation

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:

• 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

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key Result Areas:

• Act as a Named Nurse within a Team taking responsibility, over an appropriate span of time, in conjunction with the Outpatient Manager and the multidisciplinary team, for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care from check-in to check-out within the OPD setting.
• Be aware of current advances in clinical care and be able to facilitate the team members in the implementation of evidence-based practice.
• Take an active role in the continuing development and use of protocols and standards for nursing care.
• Participate in evaluation, audit, and research of nursing care, and incorporate appropriate findings into practice.
• Actively work to promote health and prevent ill health in staff, patients, and their relatives.
• Promote and maintain a safe and pleasant environment for patients, visitors, and colleagues.
• Check the readiness for use of emergency / special equipment and ensure all equipment in use is in good working order.
• Have knowledge of recording relevant patient/nursing data on to computer

Person specification

• Qualification and experience
• 2 years and over experience

Skills

• Experience working in minor theatre

As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women’s staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.

Please note: Information provided during recruitment and pre‑employment checks must be accurate. Misrepresentation may be investigated as fraud and could lead to withdrawal from the process, professional sanctions, or criminal action.

Please note: that sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route is subject to Trust allocation and UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) approval.

Use of AI in recruitment: We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support the initial review of applications against the essential criteria for this role. Where AI is used, it will support rather than replace human decision-making, and applications will remain subject to appropriate human review.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

To ensure fairness and manageable shortlisting processes, some vacancies may have an application cap. This means the vacancy will close once a set number of applications have been received even if this happens before the advertised closing date. All applications received before the cap is reached will be considered equally and assessed against the person specification.