Knowledge, Skills & Experience Required - Current NMC Adult Nurse registrant - Desirable experience of working in an acute setting - Enthusiasm and self-awareness - Team focused - Reliable, adaptable and dependent - Ability to prioritise - Excellent communication skills - Self-motivated - Ability to appropriately escalate concerns - Awareness of up to date guidance regarding Day Surgery - Ability to complete admissions and discharges competently - Understanding of safeguarding and how to escalate concerns appropriately Education and training - Be actively involved in and support departmental education programmes - To consolidate and learn new skills and competencies to provide holistic care. To develop clinical reasoning and treatment techniques through the active participation in training and development. To consolidate knowledge and skills learned through this process with the direction of senior staff. - To participate in the supervision, caseload monitoring and clinical education of student nurses and less experienced staff with support of senior staff, as required. Providing support, guidance, training, and assessing and evaluating competence, in order to fulfill clinical governance requirements and retain a skilled workforce. - Develop the skills to supervise, mentor, support and educate less experienced and non-registered staff in the clinical practice setting. - Undertake all mandatory training - Demonstrate a commitment to research based practice and clinical excellence and play and active part in the introduction of research based change to improve patient centred care. Improving quality and developing practice - Comply with requirements to register with the NMC and identify own learning needs and ensuring own professional development is maintained by keeping up to date with practice developments. - Work with senior staff undertaking audit and research projects, to further own and teams clinical practice within each rotation. To be involved in making recommendations for changes to practice and procedures for the relevant clinical area, and the implementation of these changes. - Contribute to the Clinical Governance and Quality agenda by active participation in service initiatives, health and safety and risk management. - Develop and share own clinical knowledge with other members of the wider clinical team. - Engage in clinical supervision in order to gain an appreciation of its value in clinical practice - Identify own development needs, aligning these to service requirements and personal aspirations. Proactively develop and improve own practice using all available resources - Understand and contribute to the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies/ protocols/ guidelines relevant to the specialist area.