Registered Nurse - Trauma and Orthopedic
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
Do you want to work for one of the UK's largest Trusts, situated in the heart of the 'Garden of England', just a stone's throw from London and with easy, fast access to France and beyond?
Are you a Registered Nurse, a newly qualified Nurse, or training to be a Nurse? Are you looking for an exciting and interesting role, working with a multi-disciplinary team who are committed to delivering high quality and safe patient care? If you are motivated, dedicated, passionate and looking for a new challenge to enhance your personal and professional development, then we would love to hear from you!
We are a 24 bedded, Elective Orthopaedic Ward, who offer great development opportunities for you to flourish within this role, as well as career development.
We have a strong team, who will support you to develop and gain excellent experience in delivering compassionate and safe care.
We have created a positive learning experience for staff with our links to Fracture clinic, EOC, SAL, and Theatres.
We are also dedicated to providing education and training to support you with your CPD, with our links to Canterbury Christ Church Uni and in-house nurse development team.
Main duties of the job
Registered Nurse with Trauma and Orthopaedic skills.
To provide effective patient care whilst working as a member of the nursing team across East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust. To ensure the maintenance of high standards of patient care in response to service needs.
About us
We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with five hospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 800,000 people. Our vision is 'great healthcare from great people'. Everything we do is guided by our values: 'People feel cared for, safe, respected and confident that we are making a difference'. We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called 'We care'. It's about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We're looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families and carers we care for every day.
Job responsibilities
Please scroll down to access the full Job Description and Person Specification located in Documents to download.
If you have further queries please don't hesitate to contact the line manager using the contact details below.
Person Specification
Governance
* NMC code of conduct
* Knowledge of Risk Management
* An understanding of the current nursing issues
* Ability to work on own initiative using sound decision-making and problem-solving skills
Qualifications and Training
* Recent clinical experience in an acute trust
* Delivery of evidence based practice
* Demonstrate patient focused approach
* NMC pin
* Previous Band 5 experience within speciality
* Evidence of facilitating learning in practice
* Evidence of on-going personal and professional development
* Completion of preceptorship
Clinical skills and experience
* Time management and personal organisation skills
* Venepuncture, Bladder Scans
* Previous Orthopaedic knowledge
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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