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.
Main duties of the job
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.
We are looking for a highly motivated Registered Nurse to join our brilliant team within the Diabetes and Endocrine team.
Our team provides a dynamic and holistic approach to providing excellent patient focus care.
There are many fantastic opportunities for developing your knowledge and skills within the diabetes and endocrine service.
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.
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You may be returning to nursing or only qualified in the last couple of years, full training and support will be offered to the right candidate.
If you are looking for job security, unique nursing skillsets, and work in a progressive University Hospital endoscopy unit, we welcome the opportunity to meet you.
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, respect and dignity and respect they deserve.
Main Responsibilities:
- Accountable for own actions in accordance with the Code of Professional Conduct. Contribute to corporate objectives, acting within local, Trust and statutory guidelines and policies at all times.
- Effectively communicate information regarding clinical decisions, policy and care pathways to patients/carers and the multi-professional team including situations where difficulties in comprehension occur.
- A competent practitioner, teaching, assessing and supervising/providing mentorship to appropriate students or junior staff.
- 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.
- Organisation of cross-departmental/organisational activities to support patient care pathways.
- Demonstrate technical and/or practical skills to ensure optimum patient care management including; patient observations; equipment management and administration of agreed invasive tests/procedures.
- Utilise and ensure others utilise information and IT systems to secure accurate and timely patient, workforce and resource data.
- 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 e.g. in an unexpected event.
- Support patients, carers and others during difficult situations arising in the clinical area, e.g. imparting bad news or following an unexpected event.
- Promote and monitor adherence to Health and Safety and Trust policy designed to protect healthcare staff and service users from known hazards.
In accordance with changes in the law, from 1st April 2022, all NHS staff will be required to have had two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine (unless exempted on medical grounds). Consequently, UHCW NHS Trust has decided that, wef 1st February, 2022, all new starters must have had both vaccination doses before they can commence their employment with the Trust: only those with medical exemptions may be excluded from this requirement.Please consider this mandatory requirement before submitting an application for this position.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You may be returning to nursing or only qualified in the last couple of years, full training and support will be offered to the right candidate.
If you are looking for job security, unique nursing skillsets, and work in a progressive University Hospital endoscopy unit, we welcome the opportunity to meet you.
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, respect and dignity and respect they deserve.
Main Responsibilities:
- Accountable for own actions in accordance with the Code of Professional Conduct. Contribute to corporate objectives, acting within local, Trust and statutory guidelines and policies at all times.
- Effectively communicate information regarding clinical decisions, policy and care pathways to patients/carers and the multi-professional team including situations where difficulties in comprehension occur.
- A competent practitioner, teaching, assessing and supervising/providing mentorship to appropriate students or junior staff.
- 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.
- Organisation of cross-departmental/organisational activities to support patient care pathways.
- Demonstrate technical and/or practical skills to ensure optimum patient care management including; patient observations; equipment management and administration of agreed invasive tests/procedures.
- Utilise and ensure others utilise information and IT systems to secure accurate and timely patient, workforce and resource data.
- 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 e.g. in an unexpected event.
- Support patients, carers and others during difficult situations arising in the clinical area, e.g. imparting bad news or following an unexpected event.
- Promote and monitor adherence to Health and Safety and Trust policy designed to protect healthcare staff and service users from known hazards.
In accordance with changes in the law, from 1st April 2022, all NHS staff will be required to have had two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine (unless exempted on medical grounds). Consequently, UHCW NHS Trust has decided that, wef 1st February, 2022, all new starters must have had both vaccination doses before they can commence their employment with the Trust: only those with medical exemptions may be excluded from this requirement.Please consider this mandatory requirement before submitting an application for this position.
Person Specification
Qualification/Training
Essential
Desirable
Experience
Essential
Desirable
Knowledge
Essential
Desirable
Skills & Abilities
Essential
Desirable
Commitment to Trust Values
Essential
Person Specification
Qualification/Training
Essential
Desirable
Experience
Essential
Desirable
Knowledge
Essential
Desirable
Skills & Abilities
Essential
Desirable
Commitment to Trust Values
Essential
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
