Would you like to join a centre of excellence in rural and remote healthcare?
Main area: The Heart Centre - 200132 Grade NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract: Permanent: will include on call weekends/nights and bank holidays
Hours: Part time - 35.25 hours per week (9.5hr lab days/12hr ward days)
Job ref: 262-A-25-7017906
Site: The Heart Centre, Cumberland infirmary
Town: Carlisle
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 Per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 13/03/2025 23:59
Job overview
Registered Nurse Band 6 - The Heart Centre - Cumberland Infirmary
The post holder will work as part of the team to provide a safe, effective environment for patients, relatives, and carers. Take regular charge of the ward/unit as required. Contribute as requested by the ward manager/charge nurse to the smooth running of the ward through the acceptance of agreed additional responsibilities.
Employees should honour the trust core values by demonstrating appropriate behaviours and encouraging this in others. Demonstrate commitment to quality patient care through effective leadership and team working.
Healthcare Professionals returning to practice, moving into new roles or changing clinical environments, may access an agreed preceptorship period.
Main duties of the job
* Manage and provide all aspects of patient care, maintaining the privacy and dignity of all patients, adhering to trust and department policies.
* Act in accordance with the NMC code of professional conduct and demonstrate trust core values and behaviours.
* Work within designated role as scrub/circulating nurse within the PCI labs and participate in the out of hours on primary percutaneous intervention on call rota.
* Work within the cardiology departments, such as Willow C ward, CCU, and The heart centre.
* Demonstrate practice based on current advances in nursing practice and research.
* Develop and establish evidence-based practice that contributes to the development and evaluation of nursing procedures in the unit.
* Undertake extended role skills as required, e.g., administration of IV drugs, defibrillation, venepuncture, cannulation.
* Direct patient care by assessing, analysing patient data obtained from observations, blood results, and monitoring equipment and acting on those accordingly. Recognising the deteriorating patient and escalating to clinicians.
* Advise and recommend nursing interventions and changes to patient care following assessment, e.g., changes to pressure area care, changes to oxygen delivery.
* Administer intravenous drugs, record effect, and titrate to physiological parameters.
* Comply with infection prevention and control procedures at all times.
Working for our organisation
At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding hospital and health services to half a million people. Established on 1st October 2019, the Trust is creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout north Cumbria and beyond. We’re responsible for delivering over 70 services across 15 main locations and we employ more than 6,500 members of staff.
Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of ‘safe, high-quality care every time’:
* Being a clinically led organisation
* Quality and safety at the heart
* A positive patient experience every time
* A great place to work
* Managing our money well
As an organisation, we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.
Across the North East and North Cumbria, we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. There is an expectation for all staff to support this by familiarising yourself with the Trust’s sustainability initiatives such as waste and recycling, going paperless, videoconferencing, sustainable transport, and others.
We encourage you to think about what you can do as an individual and within your team to contribute to embedding carbon reduction into the everyday running of our organisation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.
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Disclosure and Barring Service:
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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