Role: Band 5 Endoscopy Nurse
Rates: £22.06 - £31.30
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.
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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 Endoscopy Nurse with 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.
* Atleast 1 year of Endoscopy Experience
* EPP Clearance with Occupational health
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.
Development and opportunities
If you are looking for a role within an NHS Trust that can provide the very best opportunities for building a strong, stable career in nursing, apply today.