Bank - General Inpatient Nurse

Job summary

We are seeking Band 5 Registered Nurses to join our growing temporary staff bank service, providing vital support to our inpatient teams across the following locations:

• Alistair Farquharson Centre, Thurrock Hospital
• Brentwood Community Hospital
• Mayflower Community Hospital, Billericay
• Foxglove Ward, King George Hospital
• Grays Court Wards 1 & 3, Dagenham Hospital
• Heronwood and Galleon, Wanstead Hospital
• Ainslie Rehabilitation Unit, Chingford

As a member of our team, you will play an active role in assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating patient care. Recent clinical experience, preferably in a community or community hospital setting, is essential.

We are looking for reliable, enthusiastic, and self-motivated individuals with excellent verbal and written communication skills to deliver high-quality patient care.

Main duties of the job

Main duties include but are not limited to:

1. To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others workload in the day to day allocation of work.

2. To deputise when required in the team managers absence and delegate appropriately to health care assistants.

3. To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them, particularly administration of medicine and moving and handling.

4. To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.

5. To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust register.

About us

Do you want to be part of an innovative, dynamic organisation that is committed to delivering the best care by the best people? We are looking to appoint people who are as passionate about high quality care as we are.

NELFT provides award winning community and mental healthcare for over 2 million people. We work to ensure our patients, their friends and family, feel confident that their health needs are well met. With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled health professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care.

We are committed to the delivering the best care for our patients. The successful candidate will share this commitment and demonstrate our Trust values.

We operate a temporary staffing service and can offer competitive hourly rates, flexibility of shifts and hours, access to the NHS pension scheme, variety of work and access to training opportunities.

Employer details

Employer name

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust

Address

Various

London and Essex

RM13 8GQ

Employer's website

https://www.nelft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust

Address

Various

London and Essex

RM13 8GQ

Employer's website

https://www.nelft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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