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Main area: Medical Day Unit
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 409-6613486-C
Site: Ormskirk Town
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 Per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 12/01/2025 23:59
Interview date: 20/01/2025
Job Overview
We are seeking an enthusiastic Registered Nurse with a strong commitment to excellence in patient care and a high level of communication skills, as you act as the interface between patients and other healthcare professionals.
The Medical Day Unit has 2 treatment rooms, both with 10 chairs, working alongside the clinical haematology outpatient department.
We specialize in intravenous therapies with a specific focus on haematological conditions. We work primarily to conduct day case treatments and investigations, preventing inpatient admissions and administering chemotherapy for haematological malignancies, as well as treatments for General Medicine.
We would love an experienced SACT trained nurse to join our team, or a nurse looking for a new challenge and willing to complete the necessary training.
If you are interested in developing your skills and experience while working in a dynamic, fast-paced area of nursing, then we would welcome your application.
Please telephone the team should you wish to discuss further at 01704 704221.
Main Duties of the Job
1. Assess, plan, develop, and implement programmes of care to patients, providing advice in a variety of settings.
2. Carry out nursing procedures in line with current NMC standards of proficiency.
3. Ensure the health, wellbeing, and independence of patients and service users across healthcare settings, maintaining associated records, ensuring all patients always receive safe and effective care.
4. Supervise junior staff and all learners.
5. Always understand and demonstrate the Trust values.
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
Key Duties:
* Provides and receives complex information, communicating sensitively and confidentially information relating to patients/clients (for example, care plan discussions with patients).
* Communicates in a compassionate and empathetic manner, using persuasion and reassurance.
* Ability to recognize barriers to communication, and ability to modify communication style as required.
* Ability to effectively communicate while providing training to students.
* Demonstrate effective communication skills with the wider MDT team.
* Maintain appropriate levels of training for clinical skills as needed within the scope of practice.
* To maintain safe custody of drugs, ensuring that checking, witnessing, and administration procedures are compatible with statutory and trust requirements.
* In the absence of Sister/Charge Nurse, effectively respond to complaints/concerns and escalate as required.
* To ensure clinical incidents/near misses are managed, reported, and escalated in a timely manner.
* To be part of the multidisciplinary team decision-making, acting when required as the patient's advocate in order to support the patient’s pathway.
* Work within the organizational policy, standard operating procedures, and guidelines.
* To undertake risk assessments and implement risk-reducing measures. To report and escalate to the Line Manager any deficiencies in the arrangements for minimizing risk.
* Ensure that privacy, dignity, and safety of individuals are maintained at all times.
* To actively participate in the effective and efficient use of the ward/departmental resources and equipment, including stock management and care and maintenance of equipment.
* Handles patient’s valuables, ensuring safe storage and transportation.
* Sign off agency timesheets in order to verify and record the hours worked.
* Liaise with the Roster Coordinator to ensure your personal roster is balanced within the roster period.
Person Specification
Knowledge
* Able to demonstrate knowledge of NMC professional standards for practice contained within the code.
* Experience of working in a clinical environment.
* Experience of providing and receiving complex, sensitive information.
* Understand requirements for NMC professional revalidation.
* An understanding of national, regional, and local NHS issues.
* Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team.
Qualifications
* 1st Level Registered Nurse (degree/diploma).
* Current NMC Registration.
* Evidence of continuing professional development.
Skills
* Excellent communication skills with the ability to network and build relationships at all levels.
* Ability to communicate effectively (written, verbal, and non-verbal communication) with patients/relatives and carers and all members of the multi-disciplinary team.
* Awareness of the need for confidentiality at all times.
* Effectively prioritizes and coordinates own workload.
* Ability to de-escalate complex situations.
* Computer literacy e.g., experience of electronic patient record.
Other
* Dealing with frequent interruptions and competing demands.
* Ability to work within highly distressing or emotional circumstances e.g., end of life care.
* Ability to communicate distressing information.
* Ability to communicate in a challenging environment.
* Able to carry out direct clinical care as required on ward or department.
Thank you for considering an application to work for Mersey West Lancashire NHS Trust. You are part of an exciting and forward-thinking NHS Trust who are one of the best places to work for in England.
The Trust may contact you during the recruitment process for your feedback on your experience. We always aim for continuous improvement in our practice.
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
We actively cultivate a professional environment of fairness, equality, dignity, and respect for all individuals. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds and value the unique skills, perspective, and experience you bring. We are grounded in the belief that diversity enhances our collective strength, fostering innovation and excellence within our workforce. We welcome all applications irrespective of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion/belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, and particularly those from under-represented groups.
As a Disability Confident Leader, we commit to offering an interview to all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job (the essential criteria) listed in the person specification. If you wish to apply under this Guaranteed Interview Scheme, please indicate this on the online application form.
If you are having difficulty completing an online application, or require any disability reasonable adjustments, to the application process, please contact Recruitment@merseywestlancs.nhs.uk
We also commit to offering an interview to all armed forces veterans who meet the minimum criteria for the job (the essential criteria) listed in the person specification. If you wish to apply under this Guaranteed Interview Scheme, please indicate this on the online application form.
The Trust operates anonymous shortlisting where no personal information about you, including your name or personal details are shared with the recruiting manager. No equality information is shared at any time during the recruitment process with the recruiting manager or other people involved in the decision-making process.
The equality monitoring information you provide is used in the following situations: to review our recruitment practices; where a job is limited to a specific person to verify their eligibility to apply; and to offer disability reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
If this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 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.
Please note if applicable, applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment.
If you have not already done so, you are therefore encouraged to enroll for the DBS Update Service to which a small annual fee of £13 per year applies.
Flexible Working
We actively support flexible working patterns throughout MWL. Changes made to the NHS Terms and Conditions of Service Handbook mean that:
· All employees have the right to request flexible working from day one of employment.
· There is no limit on the number of requests they can make.
· Employees have the right to make requests, have them considered, regardless of the reason.
At Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, we will consider requests for flexible working. We would also encourage you to discuss flexible working options at the interview stage.
Working for Team MWL
Staff recognition is especially important to us; as well as performance reviews and appraisals, we recognize staff through Employee of the Month. Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals, we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offers a variety of services.
The Trust is non-smoking across all our sites. Failure to follow this rule could lead to disciplinary action. For more information, see the Smoke Free NHS website.
You must ensure that your application, including personal statements and behaviour examples, are truthful and factually accurate. Please note plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.
The Trust will not accept applications which are found to be AI-generated.
Additional Information
Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trust's Values and Behaviours which are We are KIND, We are OPEN, We are INCLUSIVE, which can be found here.
An applicant guide to help and support you with your application and what to expect during your recruitment journey can be accessed in the supporting documents.
Good luck with your application. We hope to welcome you to Team MWL very soon.
Employer Certification / Accreditation Badges
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.
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