Are you a Registered Nurse or a newly qualified Nurse looking for an exciting and interesting role, working with a multi-disciplinary team who are committed to delivering high quality and safe patient care? If you are looking for a new challenge to enhance your personal and professional development, we would love to hear from you!

Kings A2 is a 20 bedded acute surgical colorectal ward including patients stepping down from ITU. We specialise in VAC therapy dressings and work along side our gastro-enterology ward widening our scope of experience.

Working alongside a unique team of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists , we also provide rehabilitation and support to enable the patients to leave the hospital environment.

We have a strong team, with great opportunities to develop and gain excellent experience in delivering compassionate and safe care to this complex and vulnerable group of patients.

Main duties of the job

Registered Nurse with General surgical experience

To provide effective patient care whilst working as a member of the nursing team across East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust. To ensure the maintenance of high standards of patient care in response to service needs

About us

We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with fivehospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 800,000 people. Our vision is 'great healthcare from great people'. Everything we do is guided by our values: 'People feel cared for, safe, respected and confident that we are making a difference'. We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called 'We care'. It's about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We're looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families and carers we care for every day.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please scroll down to access the full Job Description and Person Specification located in Documents to download.

If you have further queries please dont hesitate to contact the line manager using the contact details below.

Person Specification

Qualifications and training

Essential

• Registered Nurse

Desirable

• Completion of Preceptorship

Clinical skills and experience

Essential

• Recent clinical experience in an acute Trust
• Delivery of evidence based practice
• Demonstrate patient focused approach
• Ability to communicate clearly, both written and verbally. The ability to converse at ease with customers and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post.
• Basic IT skills and well developed verbal & written communication skills
• Ability to develop working relationships with others
• Time management and personal organisation skills

Desirable

• Previous experience at Band 5 within specialty
• Evidence of facilitating learning in practice
• Evidence of on-going personal and professional development

Governance

Essential

• NMC Code of Conduct
• Clinical Governance
• Risk management
• Understanding of current issues in nursing

Personal/professional attributes

Essential

• Calm under pressure
• Ability to work flexibly and collaboratively. Good interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work on own initiative using sound decision-making and problem solving skills

Desirable

• Ability to manage conflicting and complex issues

Other requirements

Essential

• To be aware of and adhere to the Trust's Vision, Mission and Values
• Current understanding of key issues facing the NHS both locally and nationally

Employer details

Employer name

East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

William Harvey Hospital

Kennington Road, Willesborough

Ashford

TN24 0LZ

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