Client Name: Sussex Community
Role: Band 5 Registered Nurse
Rates: £17 - £34
Shifts: Flexible hours, with shifts available throughout the day, night & at weekends.
Benefits:
* Access to Care4Carers to help support your mental health and wellbeing and enable you to deliver outstanding care.
* Competitive pay rates
* First sight of agency nursing shifts across multiple trusts
* Next-day payroll
* Block bookings in your favourite locations
* Excellent support from your own dedicated consultant
* Revalidation support
Working alongside a friendly, welcoming team of dedicated professionals, you will be utilising these resources to provide emergency treatment and ongoing medical care of the highest calibre to patients.
Patient focus
Your clinical knowledge and experience will help you to support seriously ill patients and their families throughout what can be a stressful and uncertain time. You will be carrying out essential tasks such as taking blood and undertaking patient observations for post-surgery patients as well as emergency admissions and planned admissions. Your calm, reassuring nature and methodical approach to tasks will ensure patients feel safe and reassured.
General key skills
In addition to your qualifications, as a Band 5 Registered Nurse, you will have:
* quick thinking abilities
* patience and the ability to remain calm in stressful situations
* excellent attention to detail & timekeeping
* a methodical approach to tasks
* the ability to work well and under pressure
* empathy, understanding & a flexible attitude
* a desire to learn and improve
* the ability to use a computer competently
Main Duties/Responsibilities
As a Band 5 Registered Nurse with Sussex Community you will:
* Provide constant monitoring and care for patients in a seriously ill or unstable condition.
* Actively support emergency admissions, planned admissions and post-surgery patients and their families, communicating clinical information using a variety of methods, to ensure effective understanding.
* Safely identify, prepare, check, and assemble equipment required for the relevant operating list.
* Adhere to the NMC professional Code of Conduct.
* Take blood/fit a cannula and undertake patient observations (blood pressure, temperature, pulse, respiration rate and oxygen level) as patient need dictates throughout the shift.
* Write care plans, perform assessments, and make referrals.
* Organise admissions and discharges to and from the ward.
Qualifications/Licenses/Certifications
Essential
* Be a Registered Nurse.
* At least 2 years post-graduate experience.
* 6 months recent NHS experience within the last 3 years.
* You will need to pass an enhanced background check.
So, if you are a Band 5 Registered Nurse and believe you have what it takes to be a part of the outstanding team at Sussex Community apply today.
If you are ready to take a leap forward in your career, apply today to work in the best teaching hospitals in the country and enjoy flexible hours, next day payroll and excellent support from your own dedicated consultant.