Staff Nurse

Job summary

ARE YOU A KIND, COMPASSIONATE AND ENTHUSIASTIC NURSE WHO THRIVES ON DELIVERING EXCELLENT STANDARDS OF INDIVIDUALISED SAFE PATIENT CARE?

IF YES, WE WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU ................

We are looking for enthusiastic, motivated, and innovative nurses to join our wonderful multidisciplinary team of nurses, Healthcare assistants, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, discharge coordinator, primary care coordinators, Doctors, consultant geriatricians and admin staff on Dickens ward.

Dickens ward is a 34 bedded acute care of the elderly unit that is part of the emergency and ambulatory care division in London Northwest University Healthcare NHS Trust. We take direct admissions from our Emergency department, as well as transfers from acute medical wards.

We work to ensure our teams are supported with professional development pathways and that they are valued and respected as individuals. In return for your care and commitment to this specialty, with the guidance of our practice development nurse we will actively support staff education and development. We offer excellent development programmes at Band 5 level including clinical skills, online learning, and link nurse roles. For newly qualified nurses, we have a preceptorship programme to ensure that you are well supported to get your career off to the best start and to enable you to achieve your potential.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for enthusiastic, motivated, and innovative nurses to join our wonderful multidisciplinary team of nurses, Healthcare assistants, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, discharge coordinator, primary care coordinators, Doctors, consultant geriatricians and admin staff on Dickens ward.

You will be supported by an experienced team, Clinical Nurse Manager and Matron. We offer different learning opportunities within a range of settings so we are confident we can find the best place for you. Regardless of where you are in your career, we are confident we can support you in achieving your goals.

If you have any or all of the following qualities please apply for this post:

• Proactive with a caring, positive mental attitude?
• Focused on your skill development and open to new ways of working?
• Driven and enthusiastic with a mind-set that means you are happy to work hard to make the service work?
• Keen to join a superb team where career development and opportunities are available for those wishing to expand their skills?
• A confident communicator with a passion for helping people?
• A committed team player who always acts with integrity and takes accountability?
• Have a good nature, be meticulous and patient?
• Be proactive and have exceptional attention to detail?
• Have a high level of compliance with infection control?
• Be able to provide a high level of patient care?
• Have excellent patient record keeping?
• Be presentable?
• IT Confident?

About us

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

We run major acute services at:

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.