Job summary
- Main area
- Staff Nurse
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- 30 hours per week (Part time hours considered - minimum 25 hrs per week - 24/7 service)
- Job ref
- 270-TF268-ACS
- Employer
- Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Beechwood Community Hospital
- Town
- Wellingborough
- Salary
- £28,407 - £34,581 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Staff Nurse
Band 5
Job overview
BAND 5 STAFF NURSE – IN-PATIENT PHYSICAL HEALTH REHABILITATION AT BEECHWOOD COMMUNITY HOSPITAL, WELLINGBOROUGH, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE
30 hrs per week, part time hours consider – minimum 25 hours per week – long and short days are available on a 24/7 rota basis.
Please come and join our highly skilled, motivated and innovative team including medics, nurses, physiotherapists and occupational therapists all ward based to ensure that our patients receive the best possible individualised care all in single rooms.
Beechwood Community Hospital is one of five Community Hospitals within Northamptonshire who all work closely to share best practice and develop services for our local population.
Main duties of the job
As a Staff Nurse you will have a unique opportunity to help us shape the new inpatient hospital and ward team. We want to create an effective and high performing team which you can be part of from the very beginning making a positive difference and delivering outstanding care.
The post holder will need to provide quality care for a group of patients, specialising in rehabilitation and sub-acute care from patients stepping down from acute hospitals and step up patients for acute hospital admission avoidance in a physical health inpatient unit.
As a Staff Nurse you will:
- assess the healthcare needs of patients and develop care plans reflecting their needs
- monitor the quality of care they're receiving
- work closely with the MDT to set goals towards discharge
- carryout clinical skills such as complex medication administration, intravenous medications and fluid administration, syringe pump use, enteral feeding, complex wound care and catheterisation
- Assist the Ward Sister in managing a team of patients, supervision and delegation to junior staff.
To apply you must be on the NMC register or due qualify within the next 6 months if you are currently a student nurse.
Working for our organisation
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document.
Person specification
Registered with NMC
Essential criteria
- Registered with NMC
Caring and compassionate
Essential criteria
- caring and compassionate
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Debra Tew
- Job title
- Ward Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 0272156
- Additional information
For any further information please contact Debra Tew.
Ward phone number 03000 272156
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