Staff Nurse - Ward

Job Overview

You will receive excellent training and opportunities within the specialty you work in. The successful candidate will be responsible for the assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation of nursing care, working as a member of the multi‑disciplinary team providing patient‑centred care. Your role will involve assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation of nursing care, providing information to patients/carers, nurse‑led falls assessment and identifying risk factors to reduce the risk of further falls.

Nursing staff will be directly involved in complex discharge planning and referrals to other disciplines.

Provide patient‑centred nursing care, including assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation, nurse‑led falls assessments, risk factor identification, complex discharge planning, and referrals to other disciplines.

• Registered Nurse, current NMC registration
• Continuing Professional Development
• Computer skills awareness
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills both written and verbal
• Effective teacher at ward level
• You must have appropriate UK professional registration

• Venepuncture training, post‑basic experience in medicine
• Experience of liaising with multi‑professional teams at all levels; up‑to‑date knowledge of current nursing issues and infection control issues
• Basic IT skills, including e‑mail and word processing

We are recruiting for permanent full or part‑time staff nurses within the medical wards in the Department of Geriatric Medicine. Work on a rotational shift basis, days and nights, in a supportive multi‑disciplinary team of doctors, nurses, healthcare assistants and therapists.

Note:

Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 per annum. Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview. We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist.

Please apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity. We value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from under‑represented groups. Staff will be required to complete mandatory safeguarding training.

Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant's DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post.