Main area Emergency Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (11.5hrs shifts working flexibly 7 days per week / will include regular weekend and bank holiday working) Job ref 225-DIV2-6779954
Employer The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site New Cross Hospital Town Wolverhampton Salary £37,338 - £44,962 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 13/02/2025 23:59
Streaming Nurse
Band 6
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has become available for a Band 6 nurse to join our evolving Emergency Department Team. With the introduction of ED streaming, the successful candidate will have excellent assessment and triage skills and have the ability to rapid assess and signpost patients within a busy ED waiting room to alternative pathways.
This band 6 role provides a real opportunity to develop leadership skills, clinical skills and knowledge base within the Emergency Services Directorate.
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest acute and community Trusts in the West Midland.
We have been rated as GOOD during our recent CQC inspection.
Main duties of the job
The Emergency Department is exceptionally busy and currently has circa 153,000 annual attendees. An understanding of the importance of maintaining patient flows through the hospital is pivotal to this role. Are you ready to embrace the new ways of working within our innovative department? The Urgent and Emergency Care Centre offers a one entry portal for all of our acute admissions and boasts a hybrid Emergency and Medical SDEC within its locality. We are also fortunate enough to have a specialist Children's area built to the highest specification and having its own 2 bedded high care area.
We are looking for caring, compassionate and dynamic nurses to work as a Streaming nurse within the Emergency care setting. The suitable candidate will have a minimum of 2 years acute care experience, Manchester triage training and a minimum of 6 months triage experience. The individual we want would be committed to sustaining and improving our patient pathways, have good clinical skills and be able to act as a professional role model.
Working for our organisation
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.
We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.
The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Delivering safe and effective clinical practice
Enhancing the patient’s experience with regular and constructive communication
Managing and developing the performance of a team of nursing staff
Ensuring effective contribution to the delivery of the organisation’s objectives
Efficient and effective use of resources
Deputising for Senior Sister/Charge Nurse
Please see job description for full list of duties and responsibilities
Person specification
Qualification
* RN Diploma, Degree
* Valid NMC registration
* Evidence of personal & professional development
Experience
* Emergency Nursing Experience
* Triage Competent
* RCN National Curriculum & Competency Framework level 2 Competencies
Leadership
* Experience of managing a team
Flexible Working - As a major employer in the Black Country and West Birmingham region we are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance. We want the Black Country and West Birmingham region to be the best place to work and as such will consider all requests to work flexibly taking into account personal and individual circumstances alongside the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the Recruiting Manager as part of the on-boarding process.
Qualifications - Please be advised that if the post that you are applying for requires any level of qualification (e.g. A-Levels, Degree etc) or Professional Registration (e.g. Nursing and Midwifery Council, General Medical Council etc) you will be required to provide proof as part of the pre-employment process. By submitting your application you are giving the Trust permission to check the qualification certificates provided back to the source provider. Please note that a sample of all applicant’s qualifications will be checked with the educational institution or provider. Furthermore, a sample of all applicants’ qualifications will be checked back to the educational institution or provider to interview letters to further deter fraud.
Sponsorship - Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. As of 1 January 2021, free movement ended and the UK introduced a points-based immigration system. Further information is available regarding two types of visa; Health Care Visa Health Care Visa and Skilled worker visa Skilled worker visa.
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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