Job summary
Provide optimum quality of care to patients, offering support to the multi-professional team. Will take management responsibility for an identified area on regular shifts.
If you are a Children's Registered Nurse interested in joining our temporary staffing services please submit an application form.
Please note this post is not suitable for applicants who are required to undertake the OSCE training programme. Applicants who do not have current valid UK NMC registration will not be considered for this post.
The Trust also offers other benefits:o Flexible workingo Access to the NHS pension schemeo Paid induction/mandatory trainingo Free uniformo On site nursery Please note that the Trust is unable to obtain sponsorship for temporary staffing positions .
Main duties of the job
Flexibility is the key to a healthy work life balance, are you looking for work to fit in with your commitments or alternatively looking for a permanent position but not ready to commit just yet?
If you have answered yes to any of the above questions then temporary staffing could be just what you are looking for:-
The Trust's temporary staffing offers a range of shifts including early, late, night and long day, you choose the shift that you want to work and when you want to work. You control your working pattern.
Alternatively if your long term aim is to secure a permanent contract, then working for the temporary staffing offers you the opportunity to work in a range of different wards and departments. This could help you decide on the area that you would ultimately like to work on; temporary work is often the stepping stone into something more permanent.
About us
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK.
We are extremely proud of our employees across our hospital sites, with high quality patient care at the heart of everything we do.
Boasting some of the most modern facilities in Western Europe, the Trust is renowned for being at the forefront of research and innovation as part of its blossoming reputation as a worldwide leader in healthcare.
We are proud to be recognised as a Pathway to Excellence designated organisation - please click the link for further details about this prestigious award. Pathway To Excellence - University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire (
By joining our exciting journey, you will form part of a passionate, talented team and will be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. There has never been a better time to join our team.
The Trust is committed to building an organisation that makes full use of the talents, skills, experience, and different perspectives available in our diverse society. We want everyone to feel they are respected, valued, can achieve their potential and receive the most appropriate and relevant care. We will create an environment where the equality and human rights principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are promoted and are part of the organisation's core values.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Recruitment Centre
If your application is shortlisted, you will be invited to attend an Recruitment Centre. This Recruitment Centre is intended to provide you with the opportunity to demonstrate how you would treat our patients and staff for whom we care, with the compassion, courtesy, dignity and respect they deserve.
Recruiting to Values
To ensure that we provide world-class patient care, UHCW recruits people that can demonstrate the Trusts Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview,which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.
Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trusts Values and Behaviours Framework and Values Based Recruitment Fact sheet which can be accessed on the right side of this page under the job description.
The Supporting Information Section in your application should therefore reflect your understanding of the Trusts Values and associated Behaviours. You will be expected to provide us with examples from work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviour.
The successful candidate will be:
1. Responsible for clinical assessment of a group of patients and management of a team, ensuring appropriate care is planned, implemented and evaluated, involving patients and users.
2. Organisation of cross-departmental/organisational activities to support patient care pathways.
3. Demonstrate technical and/or practical skills to ensure optimum patient care management including; patient observations; equipment management and administration of agreed invasive tests/procedures.
4. Utilise and ensure others utilise information and IT systems to secure accurate and timely patient, workforce and resource data.
5. Manage expected (and occasional unexpected) clinical events requiring high but unpredictable levels of physical effort according to patient dependency/clinical need, referring to a senior member of staff where appropriate in an unexpected event.
6. Support patients, carers and others during difficult situations arising in the clinical area, imparting bad news or following an unexpected event.
7. Promote and monitor adherence to Health and Safety and Trust policy designed to protect healthcare staff and service users from known hazards.
For further details please see the attached job description.
Person Specification
Qualification / Training
Essential
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Desirable
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Experience
Essential
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Desirable
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Knowledge
Essential
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Desirable
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Skills & Abilities
Essential
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Desirable
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