Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
An exciting opportunity has arisen as a permanent band 5 registered nurse at Ellesmere Port Hospital, based on Poppy Ward.
If you are an innovative and enthusiastic Registered Nurse, this will be the opportunity for you.
Poppy Ward at Ellesmere Port Hospital is a 19-bedded general rehabilitation unit under the care of Hospital at Home, with facilities for community patients to step up for care/rehabilitation. We are looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic Registered Nurse to join our joint nursing and therapy team.
The successful candidate will continue to develop skills of clinical reasoning and supervision in a supportive, caring, and friendly environment, ensuring the delivery of high-quality patient care is maintained. You will enjoy the excellent ethos of multidisciplinary working to ensure effective and efficient patient flow between the Countess of Chester Hospital and Ellesmere Port Hospital.
If you feel that you meet the criteria and person specification, then this is the opportunity for you.
Main duties of the job
* Be accountable for performing regular assessments on patient needs, to plan, implement, and evaluate care delivery and be adaptable to changing health care requirements.
* Establish and maintain effective communication with patients, relatives, and carers to ensure their involvement in the decisions about treatment, planning, and the delivery of their care.
* Work collaboratively with your team, other professionals, and agencies to ensure the patient's needs are met, especially in relation to their ongoing health care needs, their transfer, and their discharge planning.
* Ensure your daily practice fulfills your professional requirements as outlined by the NMC code of conduct and guiding documents.
About us
The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:
* The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds
* Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate, and outpatient facility
* Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.
The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount), including temporary bank staff, and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services, and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire, which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston, as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire, which has a population of approximately 50,000.
The Trust is a busy district general hospital, and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient, and diagnostic), ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.
Job responsibilities
See Job Description for further details.
Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.
Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £27.50 (standard) or £55.50 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first three months of employment.
You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £16 per year applies.
New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.
Applicants are advised to apply early, as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.
Good luck with your application.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered Adult Nurse
* Mentorship & Assessing qualification (or acquired following Preceptorship & after 12 months in post)
* Newly Qualified Nurses - Will complete the Trust's Preceptorship programme within the first 6 months of contract
* Post-registration qualification or evidence of further study
* Relevant speciality qualification (may be required for certain practice areas e.g., Critical Care)
Knowledge & Experience
* Basic IT skills in word processing/Hospital systems
* Understanding of quality change in a clinical setting
* Basic knowledge of professional & NHS issues
* Post-registration experience in a clinical setting (May be required & will be discussed at interview)
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.
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