Job summary
- Main area
- Nurse
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent: or Bank
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 825-6384658-OPS-A
- Employer
- Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Bishops Castle Community Hospital
- Town
- Bishops Castle
- Salary
- £28,407 - £34,581 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
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Nurse - Bishops Castle Community Hospital
NHS AfC: Band 5
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust believes in fairness, equity and above all values diversity in all aspects of its work, as a provider of health services and as an employer of people. We provide visa sponsorship to applicant who require a visa to work in the UK, providing the role you’ve been recruited to meets the requirements set by the Home Office.
From 4 April 2024 overseas workers requiring a general Skilled Worker Visa (such as data analysts, IT and finance professionals, etc) but sponsored by an NHS organisation will need to meet the new salary threshold of £38,700. In addition, applications to the Health and Care Visa route for those occupations paid by NHS bands that are on the immigration salary, a list of skilled jobs which have lower salary requirements, will need to meet the national pay scale for their role or the new minimum salary threshold of £23,200 (whichever is higher). We advise that you check that the role you wish to apply for meets the requirement for sponsorship before applying.
Further guidance on eligible roles can be found here- https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/skilled-worker-visa-immigration-salary-list/skilled-worker-visa-immigration-salary-list
https://www.gov.uk/health-care-worker-visa/different-salary-requirements
Job overview
The Trust is offering a £3000 (pro rata) recruitment incentive to registered nurses new to the trust for nursing roles at Bishops Castle Community Hospital. This incentive is subject to meeting eligibility criteria and terms and conditions, it does not apply to bank roles. For more information please contact the recruitment team.
Bishops Castle Community Hospital has a 16-bedded ward which offers a modern, light airy and well-equipped amenity, that supports patients for rehabilitation and essential end of life care in an Award-winning Kings Fund suite. The site has ample free parking, and the hospital is passionately supported by the local community.
Bishops Castle is a unique market town in Southwest Shropshire surrounded by an area of outstanding beauty, where you will be spoilt with spectacular views and local walks.
We are looking for experienced Nurses with evidence of professional development, excellent communication and organisational skills. You will be working within a busy ward environment with the opportunity to further develop your skills and enhance your knowledge.
We recognise that work life balance is important for our colleagues and so we invite requests from applications around less than full time/flexible working.
Main duties of the job
- To contribute to the establishment of an ethos of modern, customer orientated services and translate that into a culture of effective patient/user centred delivery meeting the individual
needs of patients and their carer’s. - To ensure that care provided is effective through careful assessment of patients’ condition and circumstances, appropriate planning and delivery of care and regular evaluation of achievement of care objectives, escalating patient care concerns, and working under the leadership of registered nurses at all times.
- To act as a role model to colleagues, always seeking to maintain the highest standards of professionalism.
Working for our organisation
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.
Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for further details of this role.
Please contact Amanda Houghton for further information- 01584 872201.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RGN
- Evidenced recent study and personal development
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary/multi-agency health/social care environment.
- Experience of working in the NHS, which may include experience gained on practice placements.
- Experience of successful partnership working arrangements with other services.
Knowledge and skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Able to assess, implement and evaluate programmes of care
- Ability to lead and manage the team on a regular basis in the absence of the Ward Sister
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
- Amanda Houghton
- Job title
- Senior Sister
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01584 872201
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