Main area: Community and primary care
Inpatient ward Grade: NHS AfC: Band 5
Contract: Permanent; flexibility of available hours: 22.5hrs, 37.5 hrs to suit candidate.
Hours:
* Full time
* Part time
37.5 hours per week (nights and weekends required; more than one vacancy is available)
Job ref: 338-6544079-24-A
Site: Whitby Hospital
Town: Whitby
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 26/12/2024 23:59
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019.
Job overview
The community inpatient ward in Whitby has 16 beds and takes rehabilitation, end of life patients, palliative patients, and those who require step up or step down nursing care.
The Staff Nurse role includes working a 24-hour shift system 365 days of the year. The role provides and coordinates patient care, educates patients and the public about various health conditions, and provides advice and emotional support to patients and their families.
Utilising physical assessment skills and clinical nursing skills to complete patient assessments including falls, nutrition, pressure ulcers, and the deteriorating patient. Supporting with admissions and discharges alongside a multidisciplinary team.
Main duties of the job
1. To maintain, as part of continual professional development, up-to-date clinical knowledge/skills in this clinical field, using information to effect change in practice and ensuring the effective dissemination of new Personal and People Development knowledge.
2. Demonstrate a range of clinical interventions, procedures, and practices which are evidence-based and relevant to the clinical area.
3. To contribute to assessment and management plan for patients with high-risk clinical needs to ensure the safety of patients & carers.
4. Coordinate and act as nurse in charge of the ward.
Working for our organisation
We are an award-winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website.
We are a forward-thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promote equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work-life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where, and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
From city to countryside, market towns to moors, you’ll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.
Experience
* Appropriate knowledge/experience of working in inpatient Nursing environments.
* Experience of working in an inpatient setting.
* Successful completion of preceptorship.
* Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) relevant to the clinical area at specialist level of care.
* Evidence of specialist practice skills and able to demonstrate the impact of this on practice change/development.
* Evidence of promoting/supporting active user/carer involvement/participation.
Skills
* Evidence of good time management skills.
* Work within the culture of improving working lives and working time directive.
* Awareness of leadership/management skills and qualities.
* Ability to manage daily operations and maintain a safe working environment.
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Samantha Wilson
Job title: Ward Manager
Email address: samantha.wilson66@nhs.net
Telephone number: 01947899200
Additional information: Jeanette Hyam (locality matron) 01947 899200
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