Employer: Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Salford Care Organisation
Town: Salford
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 13/03/2025 23:59
Staff Nurse - Recovery
Band 5
Job overview
We recruit staff that are open, honest and focused on striving for excellence, having built an enviable international reputation on five unwavering principles for clinical excellence, research and development, teaching, learning and for treating patients with compassion, respect and dignity.
If you are motivated and driven and want to be part of a team who are dedicated to delivering high quality care to patients and their carers, then take some time to reflect through what we have to offer. We are a multidisciplinary team who work closely together and support each other, whilst providing high quality care to our patients.
We have 19 theatres over two sites within the hospital that undertake a wide range of scheduled surgery covering many disciplines and emergency surgery. The role would involve internal rotation and working across both Recovery areas (Level 1 and 3). When required, recovery staff are expected to work in theatre in a X-ray guided Local Anaesthetic list.
The role involves critical care nursing of which you need to ideally have HDU/ Critical care experience and you will be required to be skilled in airway management, pain management and cardio resuscitation at immediate life support level (ILS). You should be proactive in providing a seamless service to all patients throughout their theatre journey, and have an educational role to play to all junior staff and students.
Main duties of the job
The role is mentally and physically demanding. You will be required to work independently, make clinical decisions, and problem-solve in high-pressure situations. There is a high degree of moving and handling in this role. You will be required to work a range of shifts including Earlys, Lates, Long Days, Twilights, Nights, Weekends, and Bank Holidays.
You should be an effective communicator within the team and take charge on the unit in the absence of the shift leader. You will be educated to degree level or able to provide the equivalent portfolio of evidence.
It’s a 24 hours service, shifts include weekends and nights.
If you are interested in enhancing your skills within the specialist field of recovery care and possess excellent communication skills, we would like to hear from you.
We will also ensure that you have a tailored, individual personal development plan and we will support further training. Opportunities for developing clinical skills are available and actively encouraged. You will be given the opportunity to enroll in Anesthetic in-house training.
Working for our organisation
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust, we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us, you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This vacancy is open to those who have a current NMC PIN to practice as a Registered Nurse in the UK, or those who are currently enrolled on a course which means they expect to receive their full NMC PIN within the next 3 months. Please note an NMC PRN PIN is not a full NMC PIN and would not fulfil the essential criteria for this role.
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
Person specification
Qualifications
* Current NMC or HPC registration
* Practice Assessor
Skills
* ILS / BLS
* Recovery experience
* HDU experience
* Paediatric recovery experience
* Management of EVD and Lumbar drain
* ILS
* ICU experience
* Pain management
Experience
* Experience in surgical nursing
* PACU/Recovery experience
* Paediatric recovery experience
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust does not accept unsolicited CVs from recruitment agencies and will not be liable for fees for candidates submitted speculatively.
We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to supporting flexible working for our people wherever possible and all our colleagues are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) serves a diverse population, and each Care Organisation works hard to ensure all services are accessible and fair.
We respect the value of difference. So, our aim is to employ a workforce representative of the communities we serve. Regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, trans status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, all are welcome.
We also warmly welcome interest from serving and ex-personnel, and their relatives. Please identify that you are a member of the armed forces community on your application form to be entitled to a guaranteed interview (subject to essential criteria being met). As a Disability Confident Employer, guaranteed interviews are also available to disabled applicants when essential role requirements have been met.
For posts advertised on a fixed term contract basis, we will offer secondments only for NHS appointments. Fixed term contracts will only be offered for external non-NHS appointments.
In applying for this post, you give the Trust permission to use your data for recruitment purposes.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should we receive sufficient applications or if it is filled via the internal redeployment process.
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Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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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