Registered Nurse Associate - Emergency Surgical Unit

Registered Nurse Associate - Emergency Surgical Unit

Responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development of programmes of care and/or the implementation and evaluation of these programmes. Carry out all relevant forms of care without direct supervision and demonstrate procedures to and supervise qualified and/or unqualified staff. Working as a staff nurse on a busy surgical assessment unit.

To be responsible for caring for surgical patients requiring admission to the ward. To complete admission paperwork and assess and plan their care. To manage acute surgical patients that may need theatre or assessment form the surgical team. To work alongside a healthcare assistant caring for a team of patients during the shift.

We currently provide high quality services and treat over 600,000 people across East Lancashire and the surrounding area. We employ over 7,000 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work.

An opportunity has arisen for a staff nurse to join the Emergency Surgical Unit (ESU) at Royal Blackburn Hospital. The shift patterns are internal rotation including night shifts, 37.5 hours per week over flexible days, to include weekends and bank holidays, included as per rota.

The ESU at Blackburn is a busy, modern unit with a professional but friendly team delivering high standards of care. We are looking for highly enthusiastic, motivated and committed staff nurses to join our forward thinking and ever developing team. You should have good communication, numeracy and literacy skills. You should be able to work effectively as part of a team and deal with complex sensitive information in a professional manner.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for more information regarding this post.

If you are interested please contact the ward to have a look around and meet the team!

Person Specification

Disposition

• Be able to work in a team.
• Be supportive of team members.
• Able to communicate effectively to patients, visitors and colleagues
• Able to listen actively.
• Able to reflect on one's own work.
• Have effective interpersonal skills
• Be enthusiastic, conscientious and sympathetic
• Be able to work with minimal supervision within the job description
• Able to manage the care for a group of people and prioritise workload with minimal supervision.
• Able to write basic reports.
• Able to train others
• Able to present reasoned discussion
• Evidence of continuous development.
• Able to take on board new ideas, skills and knowledge
• Ability to problem solve
• Be numerate
• Registered 1st Level or equivalent as verified by NMC
• To have knowledge of current research applicable to the post's specialist area.

Circumstances

• Be able to fulfill; various shift patterns on the ward, inc. nights
• Able to adopt to change.
• Proven ability to keep information confidential

• Effective communication skills, both written & verbal Promotes effective teamwork with own team and other members of the Multidisciplinary Team.
• GCSE English Grade C or above or equivalent
• GCSE Maths Grade C or above or equivalent

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.