Job summary
Job Title: ITU Staff Nurse
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum pro rata
Perm/Fixed Term: Permanent (part-time hours considered)
Hours per week: 37.5 hours per week
Closing Date: 22nd November 2024
Interview Date: 28th November 2024
This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly.
All correspondence for this vacancy will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk and SPAM areas.
A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.
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Main duties of the job
An Opportunity has arisen for compassionate, dynamic and motivated nurse who is patient focused to join our 8 bedded ITU/HDU here at George Eliot Hospital. The Trust aims to deliver safe, high quality care and ensures a positive patient experience.
As part of our team you will represent the Trust in delivering nursing care in line with the Trust Values and treat all staff/colleagues, patients, families, and visitors with respect and dignity. Working under the direction of the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse, you will provide and maintain effective clinical assessment to ensure that patient care is planned and evaluated.
The successful candidate will benefit from an orientation and induction programme run by our Critical Care Educator. Staff follow an education pathway, which is competency based (using the Critical Care national competency framework) and will have the opportunity to undertake a Critical Care course in conjunction with a University. Our unit is exciting and supportive where you will have the opportunity to work as part of a highly skilled, dynamic and friendly team.
If you are looking for a challenge and are eager to provide a high quality service to patients, relatives and carers then this is the opportunity for you.
About us
Here at George Eliot our vision to 'excel at patient care' takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:
Effective Open Communication
excellence and safety in everything we do
Challenge but support
Expect respect and dignity
Local health that inspires confidence
Benefits:On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, extensive in-house course learning directory, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
Job description
Job responsibilities
An Opportunity has arisen for compassionate, dynamic and motivated nurse who is patient focused to join our 8 bedded ITU/HDU here at George Eliot Hospital. The Trust aims to deliver safe, high quality care and ensures a positive patient experience.
As part of our team you will represent the Trust in delivering nursing care in line with the Trust Values and treat all staff/colleagues, patients, families, and visitors with respect and dignity. Working under the direction of the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse, you will provide and maintain effective clinical assessment to ensure that patient care is planned and evaluated.
Job description
Job responsibilities
An Opportunity has arisen for compassionate, dynamic and motivated nurse who is patient focused to join our 8 bedded ITU/HDU here at George Eliot Hospital. The Trust aims to deliver safe, high quality care and ensures a positive patient experience.
As part of our team you will represent the Trust in delivering nursing care in line with the Trust Values and treat all staff/colleagues, patients, families, and visitors with respect and dignity. Working under the direction of the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse, you will provide and maintain effective clinical assessment to ensure that patient care is planned and evaluated.
Person Specification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Undertaken wide experience during training in an acute setting
- Able to demonstrate clinical knowledge, skills and expertise
- Demonstrate the use of evidence based practice in a care
- setting
- Demonstrates the awareness and impact of clinical governance
- Critical analytical skills
- Knowledge and application of NMC Code of Conduct
Desirable
- Evidence of Research or Clinical Audit
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Enthusiastic
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to motivate self/others
- Good organisational skills
- Shift working required
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to have positive working relationships
- Effective communication skills
- Ability to work under pressure to meet required deadlines
- Experience of using evidence based practice
- To be able to assist patients to move using appropriate aids on
- a frequent basis
- To be able to transport patients using wheelchair/trolley or bed
- on a frequent basis this will occur for short periods frequently
- throughout a normal shift and will require moderate effort
Trust Values
Essential
- Effective Open Communication
- Excellence and safety in all that we do
- Challenge but support
- Expect respect and dignity
- Local healthcare that inspires confidence
Person Specification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Undertaken wide experience during training in an acute setting
- Able to demonstrate clinical knowledge, skills and expertise
- Demonstrate the use of evidence based practice in a care
- setting
- Demonstrates the awareness and impact of clinical governance
- Critical analytical skills
- Knowledge and application of NMC Code of Conduct
Desirable
- Evidence of Research or Clinical Audit
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Enthusiastic
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to motivate self/others
- Good organisational skills
- Shift working required
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to have positive working relationships
- Effective communication skills
- Ability to work under pressure to meet required deadlines
- Experience of using evidence based practice
- To be able to assist patients to move using appropriate aids on
- a frequent basis
- To be able to transport patients using wheelchair/trolley or bed
- on a frequent basis this will occur for short periods frequently
- throughout a normal shift and will require moderate effort
Trust Values
Essential
- Effective Open Communication
- Excellence and safety in all that we do
- Challenge but support
- Expect respect and dignity
- Local healthcare that inspires confidence
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
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).
