Are you a registered Band 5 Nurse looking for a new opportunity to work in an organisation that will help you develop and achieve your goals to be the best you can be? Beech B is a General Surgical Ward with 13 beds inclusive of 4 Enhanced Care beds covering colorectal, upper gastrointestinal, day case and elective/emergency surgeries and we would like you to join our friendly team.

This is an excellent opportunity to work on the ward but also within our Enhanced Care Unit with a shared goal of achieving high quality care for our service users. You will be working alongside experienced nursing staff who will help develop your skills and achieve additional competencies for your continuing professional development. High dependency/enhanced care skills as preferable but not mandatory.

We're committed to delivering a Nursing Service that delivers the best patient care. There for our patients, families and service users the public and each other, we promise to communicate effectively by listening to and responding to comments and concerns. We recognise that our excellent nursing staff are key in enabling and providing compassionate, patient centred care and we need you to join our team.

Main duties of the job

Using your clinical experience and skills you will work with your team as a named nurse to maintain accountability for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating programmes of care within the framework of team nursing. Acting with compassion you will put patients at the centre of all you do.

You will communicate effectively with patients and their carers regarding their care and educate patients where there is a need.

You will communicate effectively with the multidisciplinary team to ensure high quality patient care.

You will show commitment to sustaining and developing your clinical competence and professional awareness.

You will provide supervision, support and education to unqualified staff and students.

This role will require you to work variable hours in order to fulfil the needs of the ward.

You will show courage by embracing new ways of working and doing the right thing by the people you care for, including speaking up when you have concerns.

About us

Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is nearly 6,800 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Our objectives are simple:

• Best services for local people
• Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
• Best use of resources
• Best people

Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.

Job description

Job responsibilities

• You will develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care including discharge planning for each patient.
• You will safeguard vulnerable adults.
• You will participate in preceptorship programmes as appropriate and act as a facilitator / mentor / preceptor / role model to less experienced staff.
• You will educate patients and their carers as required where a need has been identified, including information on adopting a healthier lifestyle.
• You will complete patient documentation correctly.
• You will communicate effectively with patients, carers and members of the multidisciplinary team.
• You will be responsible for developing and sustaining your own knowledge, clinical skills and professional awareness in accordance with NMC requirements and to maintain a professional portfolio with evidence of reflective practice.
• You will assist in the training and development of student nurses and health care assistants and complete assessors training as required.
• You will contribute to research and development programmes within the ward / department.
• You will contribute to the setting and monitoring of measurable standards of care and be accountable for maintaining standards.
• You will participate in handling complaints in accordance with Trust policy.
• You will maintain a safe clean ward environment and ensure all appropriate general risk assessments are carried out within 24 hours of admission and document and plan care accordingly e.g. manual handling, pressure risks, slips trips and falls, nutrition, safeguarding.
• You will show an awareness of budgeting, exercising care and economy in the ordering and use of equipment.
• You will assist in the assessment of staffing requirements, reporting problems to the appropriate manager.
• In the absence of a more senior member of staff and as part of your development programme, with support, will be able to undertake clinical / shift management within the department.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered nurse on sub part 1 or 2 of the professional register
• Evidence of continuing education for more experienced Band 5 nurses in speciality
• NMC recognised mentorship qualification or willingness to work towards within 18 months of commencement of post
• Will require a specific speciality related qualification / equivalent experience related to the post or willingness to work towards within 18 months of qualification

Desirable

• Teaching and assessing

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Excellent time management, prioritisation and organisational skills
• Able to record and deal with facts, figures and information accurately
• Able to follow Trust and departmental policies and procedures
• Effective communicator both written and verbal
• Able to problem solve and be flexible to change in demands of service
• Ability to mentor and provide effective support to healthcare assistants and
• students.
• Ability to use technology as required to the role
• Ability to identify and manage risk
• Determination and tenacity in challenging situations
• Ability to identify personal development needs

Desirable

• Significant proven knowledge and experience in speciality

Employer details

Employer name

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

Charles Hastings Way

Worcester

Worcestershire

WR5 1DD

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