Job summary
ACUTE STROKE UNIT
STAFF NURSE - BAND 5
PERMANENT
FULL TIME / PART TIME POSTS AVAILABLE
An exciting opportunity has arisen for enthusiastic, caring andmotivated nurses to join our friendly stroke ward team at Worcestershire RoyalHospital where our services are continuing to evolve following centralisation.
Our Acute Stroke Unit is a 20 bedded unit situated next to our EDdepartment and also has 8 monitored HASU beds working on 1:2 nurse to patient ratio.Within the ward we operate a 7 day TIA clinic with dedicated Stroke Support Worker. We have an established Clinical Nurse Specialist team who are basedwithin the unit and work closely with the nursing team.
The following training/teaching will be offered; ILS course, Swallowassessment screen training, Stroke and HASU workbooks.
Our patients need care 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, soyou will need to have flexibility to work day, weekend and night shifts. Inreturn, you will benefit from flexible working patterns and unsocial hourspayments and the opportunity to experience working within a friendly supportiveteam.
We welcome new staff and ensure new members of our nursing team receiveappropriate training according to their skills and competences. We offer a comprehensive preceptorshipprogramme and mentors for newly qualified staff. Once you have the relevantexperience and competencies there are opportunities available within the Trustto progress to Band 6 and Ward Sister roles.
Main duties of the job
Using your clinical experienceand skills you will work with your team as a named nurse to maintainaccountability for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating programmesof care within the framework of team nursing.
Acting with compassion youwill put patients at the centre of all you do.
You will communicateeffectively with patients and their carers regarding their care and educatepatients where there is a need.
You will communicateeffectively with the multidisciplinary team to ensure high quality patientcare.
You will show commitment tosustaining and developing your clinical competence and professional awareness.
About us
Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.
The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester
Our workforce is nearly 6,800 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.
Our objectives are simple:
1. Best services for local people
2. Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
3. Best use of resources
4. Best people
Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will develop, implement and evaluate the programmes of care including discharge planning for each patient.
You will safeguard vulnerable adults.
You will participate in preceptorship programmes as appropriate and act as a facilitator / mentor / preceptor / role model to less experienced staff.
You will educate patients and their careers as required where a need has been identified, including information on a adopting a healthier lifestyle.
You will complete patient documentation correctly.
You will communicate effectively with patients, carers and members of the Multi-Disciplinary Team.
You will be responsible for developing and sustaining own knowledge, clinical skills and professional awareness in accordance with PREP requirements and to maintain a professional portfolio with evidence of reflective practice.
You will assist in the training and development of student nurses and health care assistants and complete assessors training as required.
You will contribute to research and development programmes within the ward / department.
You will contribute to the setting and monitoring of measurable standards of care and be accountable for maintaining standards.
You will participate in handling complaints in accordance with Trust policy.
You will maintain a safe clean ward environment and ensure all appropriate general risk assessments are carried out within 24 hours of admission document and plan care accordingly manual handling, pressure risks, slips trips and falls, nutrition, safeguarding.
You will show an awareness of budgeting, exercising care and economy in the ordering and use of equipment.
You will assist in the assessment of staffing requirements, report problems to the appropriate manager.
In the absence of a more senior member of staff and as part of your development programme, with support, will be able to undertake clinical / shift management within the department.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
5. Registered Nurse on sub part 1 or 2 of the professional register.
6. Evidence of continuing education for more experienced Band 5 nurses.
Desirable
7. Teaching and Assessing qualification
Knowledge and skills
Essential
8. Ability to problem solve.
9. Ability to prioritise work.
10. Flexible to change in demands of service.
11. Willing to learn new skills.
12. Ability to identify personal development needs.
13. Computer literate.
14. Good organisational / time management skills.
Experience
Essential
15. Can demonstrate a specific interest in area of work.
16. Will require a specific speciality related qualification / equivalent experience related to the post or willingness to work towards within 18 months of qualification.
Desirable
17. Significant proven knowledge and experience in the speciality.
Personal Qualities
Essential
18. Able to work under own initiative within boundaries of role.
19. Able to work in a team.
20. Able to deal with exposure to bereavement and challenging behaviour.
Knowledge and Understanding
Essential
21. NMC Code, its application to practice and requirements of it for own practice.
22. Knowledge of person centred care.
23. Understands actions necessary to promote peoples equality, diversity & rights.
24. Understanding of Clinical Governance .
25. Knowledge of the individuals responsibility towards Health & Safety.