To work as part of the Emergency Department team to provide expert nursing care to those attending the Emergency Department including the Urgent Care Centre. To provide expert practice and knowledge. To promote, implement and evaluate evidence-based practice.

Main duties of the job

Your nursing career - your choice!

Join the NHS as an experienced Band 5 Registered Nurse role in one of hundreds of teams across nine hospitals, community and specialist clinical services serving millions of people in South West London and beyond.

Choose Kingston Hospital Foundation Trust! You can be interviewed online - and start your new role if successful - on dates to suit you!

With more than 200 different clinical services and specialties, 22,000+ staff - and serving four million+ people across South West London and further afield - we offer an easy, quick route into the widest range of opportunities for Newly-Qualified Nurses and final year nursing students.

We will also be hosting special NQN Careers Webinars over the coming months, following the success of our 2021 events. More than 130 final year student nurses and nurses who have recently qualified joined senior colleagues from the four trusts online to hear about working life here and ask questions on a range of topics.

Please do get in touch. We'd love to tell you more about what's on offer including:

Flexible start date to suit your needs

Unrivalled learning and development - support from day one with dedicated preceptors, mentors, clear Band 5 NQN career and skills pathways and comprehensive clinical and leadership training opportunities

About us

Kingston Emergency Department provides a high standard of care to around 112,000 patients each year. As a band 5 staff nurse you will join our dedicated team of enthusiastic and motivated staff in delivering outstanding care.

Kingston Hospital - First Acute Trust in London to be rated Outstanding by CQC for Overall Quality and Leadership

Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a district general hospital situated in a beautiful and remarkable part of the country - close to London yet surrounded by royal parks, historic buildings and the River Thames.

Trust Culture and Values

The Trust has defined its culture as one that is patient centred, which puts safety first and where all staff take responsibility, are valued and value each other. To support this our five values are that we are all:-

Caring - we design and deliver care around each individual patient's needs and wantsSafe - we make the safety of patients and staff our prime concern (safety comes first)

Responsible - all staff take responsibility for the hospital, its services and reputation

Value each other - we all value each other's contribution

Inspiring -we always strive to empower each other to develop and deliver improvements to benefit our patients

Our training, policies, procedures, and practices are all intended to support behaviours in line with our values and all staff are expected to uphold these by 'Living Our Values Everyday'

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached supporting document and person specification which contains more information about the role

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• RGN 1st Level

Experience

Essential

• Recent experience in an acute NHS hospital.

Skills

Essential

• Effective written and verbal communication skills.

Employer details

Employer name

Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Kingston Hospital

Galsworthy Road

Kingston Upon Thames

KT2 7QB

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