# RGN – Registered General Nurse

**Company**: Bupa Dermatology
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £41,600
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

As a Staff Nurse, you will work within a dermatology team to deliver care to patients within a Clinic environment. You will participate in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care to provide support to patients with Dermatological conditions.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Support patient pathways in Dermatology and participate fully in the treatment and monitoring of patients

- Supervise and demonstrate procedures for junior staff qualified and unqualified

- Assist Dermatologists and Surgeons with a range of specialised procedures such as general dermatology and skin care surgery

- Plan and organise own workload in order to meet Clinic and patient needs

- Ensure compliance with Clinic Policies and Procedures

- Assist in outpatient clinics

- Check referral letter, results and x-rays are available for clinical sessions

- Support the community dermatology clinic, providing education and resources to patients, their families and staff

- Perform a full skin assessment on each patient including dermoscopy where necessary

- Perform all aspects of relevant nursing care for patients including specialist dressing/bandaging techniques and the removal of sutures/clips

- Assist and chaperone patients whilst clinical examinations/procedures are being undertaken

- Assist medical staff with fine needle aspirations, core biopsies and take responsibility for the collection/labelling of specimens

- Provide high standards of care in various Nurse-led follow-up clinics including phototherapy, cryotherapy, acne clinics, PRP and related clinics, patch testing and assisting in minor surgery

- Support where and when necessary with audits, triage of results and triage of referrals

**Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:**

- Nursing Degree

- Registered NMC

- Significant post-registration Nursing experience

- Knowledge of patient database systems

- Phlebotomy – administration of drugs as prescribed by medical staff

- Understanding of clinical and pricing documentation

- Excellent oral and written communication skills

- Passion for patient care and delivering an effective service

- Demonstrates a professional, confident and calm approach

- Self-motivated and able to motivate others

- Works to well established routines/procedures

- Able to develop and maintain positive and professional working relationships with all staff and patients

**Benefits**

- 25 Days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell

- Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind

- An enhanced pension plan and life insurance

- Annual performance-based bonus

- Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available

- Various other benefits and online discounts

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## Skills

### Required
- Nursing Degree
- Registered NMC
- Phlebotomy
- patient database systems

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