About this role
Job summary
Do you take enormous pride in delivering safe, compassionate care, resulting in a high-quality patient experience?
Do you want to make a difference to patient care?
This is an exciting opportunity for a professional, enthusiastic, positive nurse who takes pride in their work to create a vision and collaboratively work with the multi-disciplinary team to promote and build and maintain independence for our patients. Lulworth ward is a complex care medical ward managed by advanced nurse practitioners and has a secondment opportunity/ fixed term contract for 9 months to cover maternity leave.
This role requires an active UK NMC Registration
Base Location: Poole
Interview Date: 7th September
Main duties of the job
We are looking for committed and dynamic nurses with excellent communication skills and above all a real desire and passion to work with people, getting it right for patients and their families.
Successful candidates will be able to demonstrate willingness and capability to work flexibly with a commitment to excellent team working that is absolutely essential during potentially stressful and challenging situations.
About us
UHD are investing, developing and transforming Trust services in line with the New Hospital Programme. As part of this, some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or permanently. Recruiting Managers will be happy to answer any service-specific questions at interview.
If a role or service relocates as part of a planned move, excess mileage will not be reimbursed. Travel from home to the new work base will be classed as a normal commute. Any other changes will be managed under Trust or national terms and conditions.
UHD has active networks including Women's, BAME, Pride, EU, Pro Ability, and Armed Forces. We support Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant interview schemes.
AI tools may be used, but applications must honestly reflect your own skills and experience. Integrity is key to our recruitment process.
For UHD employees, this fixed-term post will be offered as a secondment in line with the Trust's Secondment Policy. Please speak with your line manager before applying.
Job description Job responsibilities
To understand this role in full details please see attached Job Description and Person Specification
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
NMC Registered Nurse
Technical Skills Essential
Demonstrable ability with vital signs monitoring equipment and ability to recognise the deteriorating patient Competent in non-IV and IV medication administration.
Personal Attributes Essential
Able to work unsupervised and on own initiative Able to integrate and work within the MDT
Experience Essential
Demonstrable clinical experience
Desirable
Experience of working on an acute medical ward.
Knowledge Essential
Ability to demonstrate fundamental nursing knowledge and practice skills
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
Address University Hospitals Dorset - Lulworth Ward
Dorset
BH15 2JB
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.uhd.nhs.uk/careers (Opens in a new tab)