We are recruiting for the SMART (Surgical Medical Acute Recovery Team), a Staff Nurse, who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take the service and the Trust forward, by ensuring that we continue to be the first choice for patients.
Please note applicants must hold a full UK driving license and have access to a vehicle.
Main duties of the job
As a Staff Nurse, you will provide clinical and professional leadership, supervision, and support to patients and students within the SMART team.
You will triage, assess, plan, and implement the care of patients who are discharged home under the care of the SMART service in the community, review and give care to SMART patients attending SDEC/Hot clinic for review, administer IV treatments, wound care, drain management, and conduct virtual visits using our remote patient monitoring pathways.
Members of SMART work autonomously; therefore, we are looking for someone who is willing to lone work. Specific training will be provided to facilitate the pathways covered by SMART in-house as well as in the community. Confidence, good communication skills, and the ability to make sound decisions are vital.
Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open, and Together. It is important that you understand and refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies/procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
About us
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values drive the Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might accommodate a flexible working arrangement that will not mean sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.
All of our substantive & fixed-term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery, and a cycle to work scheme.
We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit, and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under-represented groups to support the Trust's commitment to a diverse, inclusive, and employer of choice workforce.
All staff at Medway comply with the Trust's and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board's policies on safeguarding children, young people, and vulnerable adults.
Job responsibilities
The SMART Service is nurse-led; therefore, the ability to work autonomously as well as effectively within a team is essential. The work will include visiting patients in the community; therefore, it is essential that you have a full UK driving license and a car.
The Staff Nurse must also be able to liaise with all members of the multidisciplinary team to coordinate safe, effective, and timely care practices within the SMART service.
The Staff Nurse must also be able to care for OPAT (Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy) and post-operative patients. Full support and training will be provided to support these patients safely.
As a SMART nurse, teaching, auditing, infection control practices, and undergoing research are activities undertaken within the role.
To apply, you should be competent in cannulation, venepuncture, general surgical wound care, and drain care. The service prides itself on being innovative, so added expertise is welcomed. We are always very keen to expand the service further, so any new ideas are welcomed.
SMART will support with training to enable the successful candidate to meet the demanding and exciting challenges of the role. If you are an ambitious nurse considering developing your skills further, give us a call to find out what we can offer you. We are more than happy for people to spend time with us to fully understand how SMART works and what we do.
Person Specification
Qualification
* RN1/RN2/RN12 or RN Child Registered Nurse on the NMC register
* To hold the appropriate level for the area of speciality
Knowledge
* Knowledge of the NMC Code of professional standards of practice and behaviour for nurses and midwives
* Up-to-date knowledge of current clinical and professional issues
Experience
* To participate in or provide evidence of completion of preceptorship
* Is able to administer intravenous drug therapy or is willing to work towards this
Skills
* Able to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate programmes of care
* Able to supervise and teach junior staff
Valued Based Question
* How would you ensure you represent MFT in a positive way?
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
£28,407 to £34,581 a year per annum/pro rata
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