Bank Staff Nurse - Shropshire Community Hospitals

A bank Staff Nurse post with Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust, filled by picking up shifts across its four community hospitals in Bishops Castle, Ludlow, Whitchurch and Bridgnorth. The work centres on assessing patients' care needs, planning and evaluating care programmes and discharging patients safely, all without direct supervision. Candidates need sub-acute experience and basic Microsoft Office skills, and must have worked in a multi-disciplinary health and social care setting.

Fit depends on holding UK adult nurse registration.

• Assess patients' care needs and plan, deliver and evaluate programmes of care without direct supervision
• Deliver nursing care and discharge patients safely
• Pick up available shifts at the Trust's community hospitals
• Practise in a holistic, non-judgmental and compassionate way that respects individual choice and diversity
• Work in partnership with health and social care professionals, students, trainees, agencies, service users, carers and families
• Contribute to practice development in the clinical care setting
• Work in line with Trust policies, procedures and guidelines
• Complete work-based training linked to the role
• Act as a role model promoting excellence through practice

• Literacy and numeracy at Level 2 or equivalent (GCSE grade A to
  
  C)
• Professional clinical knowledge gained through training to degree or diploma level
• Evidence of ongoing professional development

• UK registration as an adult nurse (NMC)

• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary or multi-agency health or social care environment
• Experience of working in the sub-acute environment

• Knowledge of current professional issues
• Ability to carry out comprehensive holistic nursing assessment
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong leadership skills
• Good organisation skills, planning own work and working effectively within a team
• Ability to prioritise and make sound decisions, sometimes under pressure

• Basic IT administration skills, including Microsoft Word and Excel
• Working as part of a team
• Working under pressure and using own initiative