We have an exciting opportunity for a full time band 5 staff nurse post to come and join us on the medical day ward. This will be a 12mth fixed term contract. This is a newly merged unit and opened in October 2022. We cover 6 different specialties and require a staff nurse who shows excellent skills in communication, and wants to work in a very busy day unit were you will learn lots of new skills.
The skills needed for this role are as required
Venepuncture
Cannulation
Iv meds and oral meds
IT skills
We look after 6 different specialties which includes
Endocrinology
Haematology
Clinical chemistry
Respiratory
Renal
Gastroenterology
The successful candidate will look after all the specialties and will get to learn all the different tests and infusions we do on the medical day ward, plus will learn lots of new skills
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
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The successful candidate will be looking after all specialties of patients we treat, and will safely deliver high standards of care.
The medical day unit is open from Monday to Friday 08:00am until 18:00pm at present and closed Bank Holidays.
Duties include administration of medications oral and IV, injections, Venesections, and look after paracentesis patients who require ascetic drain insertion.
There will also be an opportunity to attend a non cancerous chemotherapy course so you will gain the skills to deliver cytotoxic infusions
We have a highly skilful team already established on the day ward who will support the successful candidate .
The medical day ward has a fantastic team of nurses and admin who always supportive of each other
This advert closes on Thursday 5 Dec 2024