Streaming Nurse

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has become available for a Band 6 nurse to join our evolving Emergency Department Team. With the introduction of ED streaming, the successful candidate will have excellent assessment and triage skills and have the ability to rapid assess and signpost patients within a busy ED waiting room to alternative pathways.

This band 6 role provides a real opportunity to develop leadership skills, clinical skills and knowledge base within the Emergency Services Directorate.

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest acute and community Trusts in the West Midland.

We have been rated as GOOD during our recent CQC inspection.

Main duties of the job

The Emergency Department is exceptionally busy and currently has circa 153,000 annual attendees. An understanding of the importance of maintaining patient flows through the hospital is pivotal to this role. Are you ready to embrace the new ways of working within our innovative department? The Urgent and Emergency Care Centre offers a one entry portal for all of our acute admissions and boasts a hybrid Emergency and Medical SDEC within its locality . We are also fortunate enough to have a specialist Children's area built to the highest specification and having its own 2 bedded high care area.

We are looking for caring, compassionate and dynamic nurses to work as a Streaming nurse within the Emergency care setting. The suitable candidate will have a minimum of 2 years acute care experience , Manchester triage training and a minimum of 6 months triage experience. The individual we want would be committed to sustaining and improving our patient pathways, have good clinical skills and be able to act as a professional role model.

About us

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We're passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.We are delighted that we have been rated as "Good" by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.