Employer: Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Royal Preston Hospital
Town: Preston
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 Per Annum/Pro Rata for part time
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 02/03/2025 23:59
Interview date: 17/03/2025
Staff Nurse - Acute Medical Unit
Band 5
Job overview
Are you looking for a new career opportunity that will both challenge and reward you? We have vacancies for Experienced or Newly qualified Band 5 Staff Nurses to develop as a nurse in acute medicine.
We are a busy acute medical unit with 34 core beds and 2 assessment areas. If you enjoy working in a fast-paced environment where no two days are the same, then this job is for you!
This position is suited to an individual looking to gain experience in the acute setting. Eager to learn new skills in a thriving and supportive workplace, ensuring high-quality care is given to our patient group while working with a dedicated team of staff who are committed to improving the quality of care and enhancing patients’ experiences.
We are seeking highly motivated, flexible individuals with strong interpersonal skills who look forward to the challenges of nursing patients with a variety of acute medical problems. Ideally, the post holder will have experience of working in an acute hospital setting and be able to demonstrate clinical knowledge in caring for acutely unwell patients. In return, bespoke training opportunities will be tailored to your personal needs to enable your development into this challenging role.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for planning, delivering, and evaluating the personalised health and wellbeing care needs of patients, in line with the Trust’s Values & Nursing & Midwifery Professional Framework goals, including:
* Personal hygiene and comfort
* Vital signs and EWS
* Early recognition and management of acutely ill patients
* Safe transportation
* Fluid balance monitoring
* Enteral feeding/meeting nutritional needs
* ECG and wound dressings
* Triage, catheterisation, venepuncture, cannulation, blood transfusion
* Palliative and terminal care
* Care of central lines
* Admission and discharge
* Nasogastric tube insertion & care
* Psychological and spiritual support
Working for our organisation
We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area and give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely makes a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving and delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet great people, and do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills and enhance your career path.
You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold, and help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience, which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please read the job description listed below:
* Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate care to meet patients’ needs in accordance with agreed local and national standards and evidence-based guidelines.
* Support and provide patient education and health promotion.
* Be responsible for the delivery and co-ordination of care through appropriate professional practice, delegation, and supervision of duties carried out by junior staff.
* Proactively manage risk and maintain patient safety, conforming to health, safety, and security legislation, policies, procedures, and guidelines.
* Assist in setting, monitoring, and maintaining standards of care to improve the patient experience and outcome of care.
* Communicate all relevant information to the multidisciplinary team internally and with external organisations as required to ensure seamless care.
* Maintain accurate and complete records of all care activities, in a timely manner, adhering to local and professional standards for documentation.
* Act as a role model, presenting a positive image of self, team, and the organisation.
* Promote equality in care and practice by recognising, respecting, and meeting the needs and choices of individuals.
* Ensure the environment of care is safe, well-equipped, and compliant with standards for hygiene and cleanliness.
* Participate in education and training of junior staff.
* Maintain and develop own professional competence and seek to extend the scope of personal knowledge and skills within the scope of role and professional practice.
* Proactively engage with Trust-wide or local changes and developments in nursing practice.
* Actively try to resolve issues and complaints at the local level and report the outcome to the line manager.
Person specification
Qualifications and Education
* Appropriate NMC registration
* NMC recognised mentorship qualification or willingness to work towards it within 18 months of commencement in post
* Evidence of continuing education or development
* Manchester Triage
* Venepuncture & cannulation
* ECG recording
* Degree
Knowledge & Experience
* Willing to expand clinical role e.g. IV additives, venepuncture, and cannulation
* Awareness of changes within Nursing practice
* Knowledge of clinical governance and the relevance to practice
* Knowledge of relevant policies and procedures
* Knowledge of ethical issues
* Evidence of clinical competence in the area of specialty e.g. surgery
* Knowledge of leadership and management
* Experience of mentorship and ability to identify learning and development needs
* Research and development
* Experience working in acute medicine
Thanks for taking the time to view this advert; we’re looking forward to receiving your application. You should be aware that the vacancy may close earlier than the published date if sufficient applications are received, so it would be best to apply as soon as you can. We’ll contact you by e-mail to update you on the progress of your application, so please check the e-mail account that you applied from (including spam/junk) regularly.
We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership, neurodiversity, or veteran status are encouraged to apply for this post.
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