Staff Nurse (BAND 5) – Theatres Recovery / ODP Recovery
The Royal Marsden has a vital role in championing change and improvement in cancer care through research and innovation, education, and leading-edge practice. We are incredibly proud of our international reputation for pushing the boundaries and for our ground-breaking work ensuring patients receive the very latest and best in cancer treatment and care.
Rated as CQC ‘Outstanding’, The Royal Marsden is a world leader in cancer care, pioneering treatment and ground-breaking research, and has achieved one of the best results for staff engagement across all acute specialist Trusts in the most recent NHS Staff Survey. We have an overall patient experience rating of 9/10, the highest score for any Trust for quality of care. We provide our nurses and ODPs with the training, support and staffing levels that enable them to provide the best care to patients.
We have seven modern theatres in Chelsea, including two robotic theatres, and two in our sister hospital in Sutton, and a well equipped recovery room. We recover a range of patients, from day surgery patients to those progressing to HDU, and from a wide range of specialties, including Sarcoma and Melanoma, Upper and Lower GI, Plastics, Head and Neck, Gynaecology, Urology and Breast. Our specialist recovery team is trusted, hard working and supportive, and we’re looking for a motivated nurse or ODP who can demonstrate a real interest in high quality post-operative care to join us.
- To carry out duties according to statutory competencies, appropriate expanded role and maintained codes of professional conduct (NMC/HPC).
- To manage the total nursing care of patients competently and be accountable for professional actions.
- To ensure that all patients are treated as individuals, within the agreed codes of nursing practice.
- To be responsible for the total care of patients who require any clinical intervention in recovery.
- To display competent knowledge in nursing/ODP practice in this specialty.
- To promote and uphold nursing/ODP standards and identify/recommend changes which will enhance the quality of care.
More Information
- Salary Offer £34,089 - £41,498 a year
- Address Chelsea