The postholder will be responsible and accountable for the assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation of nursing care.
Work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team and undertake delegated tasks from the ward manager/charge nurse.
The postholder will always work within the NMC's Code of Professional Conduct., + Participate in maintaining a safe, comfortable and therapeutic environment for all patients and carers and maintain agreed standards of nursing care.
+ Determines nursing priorities and plans patient care. Informs the nurse in charge when changes in circumstances may affect patient care.
+ Maintain nursing records in accordance with the NMC and Trust Guidelines.
+ Maintain and improve quality of patient care through contribution to the development of Essence of Care and clinical benchmarking within the unit.
+ Ensure due regard is given to customs, values and spiritual beliefs of
patients.
+ Providing information and support to patients/carers, and ensuring all those involved in the care are aware of changes in the patients' condition.
+ Assist in the safe custody, checking and administration of drugs.
+ To develop clinical knowledge and skills to care for acutely ill patients
admitted via both planned and unplanned routes.
+ To undertake expanded practice, under supervision, in order to optimise patient care and in accordance with ward/department and Trust policies.
+ Involve patients and carers in the planning and delivery of care.
+ Ensure effective lines of communication within the ward/department multidisciplinary team
Management/Leadership Responsibility
+ Ensure that all equipment is checked and maintained in safe working order.
+ Manage allocated workload and provides supervision of less experienced staff.
+ Practice and promote safe and efficient use of all resources.
+ Reports all incidents, accidents and complaints to the unit manager and completes Trust incident forms in accordance with risk management policies.
+ Ensures own compliance with Trust policies and procedures.
+ Ensure own standards are maintained in relation to clinical governance.
+ Provides leadership in the monitoring of standards of care.
+ Act as shift coordinator in rotation with other nurses in the team
Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.
Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
Candidates applying for the role of Healthcare Assistant on the staff bank should note that due to the nature of the role, workers must be aged 18 or above when commencing in post. Applicants are therefore welcome from those aged over 18 or within 3 months' of their 18^th birthday.
The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.
The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.
Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £18+£5 (standard disclosure) or £38+£5 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment.
From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years.
Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website -
This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults' policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.
Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation.
All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action.
As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.
If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.
Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
For agenda for change banded roles; salary payments will reflect the 2023/24 pay scales. The 2024/25 pay scales will be paid in October 2024 including any backpay due. Therefore should the successful applicant start in post prior to October, the salary will initially reflect the 2023/24 pay scales.
We are seeking a Band 5 RN who is well-motivated, enthusiastic, caring and compassionate Band 5 Registered Nurses with an interest in MFU to join our Head & Neck outpatients department on a fixed term contract for 33 hours per week .
We are based in the Elective Care Centre at the Aintree site of Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We are a busy Maxillo facial outpatients department with a multi -disciplinary team that will support you throughout your development. We offer a range of clinics that will stretch and develop you, including Trauma, Oncology, Minor surgery, TMJ and many more. If you are passionate about providing the highest standards of care to patients and if nothing but the best will do we want to hear from you.
Previous MFU scrub experience would be preferable but not essential as full training will be given.
Applications are welcomed from well-motivated individuals, who are flexible, able to demonstrate high standards of care, and who possess excellent communication skills.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.