About this role
Job summary
We are recruiting for a Registered Nurse - Ward 5Awho shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
Ward 5A is a busy ENT, Plastics and female surgical ward, we are looking for a Dynamic registered nurse to join our team and support patients to receive the best care, we pride our-self on our good team work and happy work place.
The role of the Band 5 on ward 5A is diverse and has lots of training opportunities from tracheostomy to leech therapy, all training will be given to the successful candidate.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include,Respect, andImprove. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Main duties of the job
To provide patient with evidence and researched based care, support junior staff, to look after patients in a safe and clean environment, to manage safeguarding of vulnerable adults, to give kind and compassionate care to patients.
Medication rounds, wound management, precise and clear documentation, ensuring care plans are clear and up to date, looking after patients nutritional needs and ensuring we encourage independence.mentoring junior staff and students.
About us
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals
- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications / Training
Essential
- Registered Nurse on part 1, part 2 or part 12 of the NMC register
- Mentorship and preceptorship qualification or equivalent (or evidence of working towards it)
- Evidence of continued professional development in relevant areas of specialty
Previous Experience
Essential
- Experience of nursing within an acute clinical setting
Desirable
- Clinical experience working on an surgical ward
- Current working knowledge and skills in the management of surgical patients, especially ENT, Plastics and Gynecological surgical patients
- Experience of caring for patients with multiple co-morbidities, complex drug regime's and complex discharge requirements
Skills
Essential
- Evidence of good communication skills both written and verbal
- An effective communicator
- Self awareness
- Ability to prioritise own workload and that of others
- Understanding of research and audit and a willingness to participate in these within the department
- Motivated, reliable and flexible individual with an ability to work autonomously.
Desirable
- Organisational skills
- Ability to develop and coordinate departmental training programmes
Knowledge
Essential
- Good understanding of good quality patient care and patient safety
- Ability to work with all staff on a multiprofessional level, demonstrating up to date knowledge of practice development within surgical nursing.
- Broad knowledge of post-op care and the management of the surgical patient
Desirable
- Knowledge of computing skills
- Evidence of professional development and a proven commitment to the management of post-op surgical patient
Other Requirements
Essential
- Experience and evidence of engagement around equality, diversity and inclusion issues in relation to policy, service development and service delivery in respect of both services to users and the management of staff
- Role model our Trust values every day
- Understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion
- Excellent quality care consistently
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
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
Address
Lister Hospital
Coreys Mill Lane
Stevenage
SG1 4AB
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)