Staff Nurse Band 5 - Cedar Ward - FTC Job Chippenham area,England UK,Nursing

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You will feel valued as a Staff Nurse
within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

Band 5 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ring fenced innovation funding each year
The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Job Introduction

Are you a Staff Nurse looking to work with an organisation that actively promotes the health and wellbeing and development of their staff? You may be experienced, working in the private sector, or a newly Registered Nurse?

Cedar Ward is a nurse-led 17 bedded unit which specialises in rehabilitation and sub-acute care. You will be working within a diverse team, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Nurse Associates Healthcare Assistants, Rehabilitation Support Workers, Discharge Co-ordinators, Speech & Language Therapists, Advanced Clinical Practitioners and Doctors .

There are numerous opportunities to develop your skills and we will provide Continuing Professional Development to keep your clinical skills up to date.

Chippenham Hospitals offers a canteen and free on-site parking.

Please note that this post is being advertised on a 6-month fixed-term basis, with the possibility of an extension subject to service needs, and we are unable to accept applications from International Nurses without a current NMC registration.

Main Responsibilities

Plan, deliver and evaluate compassionate nursing care to meet the patients individualised needs.
Ensure the highest standards of care and safety are maintained.
Responsible for the safe custody and administration of medicines, using a range of routes (once competency achieved) within the NMC Standards for Administration of Medicines and adhering to local policy.
Promote patient involvement in care planning, Implementing and sustaining communication systems to keep patients and their relatives/families informed of treatment and progress
To ensure effective communication is achieved and maintained of sensitive information, with regard to the patient assessments and clinical details .
To act as a role model, ensuring high quality, professional standards are maintained and delivered at all times.
To appropriately assess patients, ensuring early detection of the deteriorating patient and escalating to medical team as appropriate.
Provide legible and comprehensive patient records to agreed Organisational and NMC standards and guidelines .
Participate in the assessment of mental capacity of patients, referring for deprivation of liberties as appropriate. Acting at all times in patient’s best interest
Demonstrate an awareness of…