Role Overview
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is seeking a Staff Nurse for Bishops Castle Community Hospital. This is a part‑time position within a multi‑disciplinary, multi‑agency health and social care environment.
Responsibilities
* Formulate and deliver high quality patient care without direct supervision, seeking guidance on actions that are outside agreed defined standards.
* Recognise changes in patients' conditions which require the intervention of others and ensure that timely referrals are made, or escalation procedures enacted as appropriate.
* Ensure patient safety is maintained at all times. Record and report adverse and potentially adverse events and assist with investigation of such events, ensuring learning is shared with the wider team(s).
* Maintain clear, accurate and contemporaneous records in line with current NMC guidelines and standards.
* Access and use patient clinical diagnostic information to inform clinical decisions.
* Make appropriate and timely referrals to members of the multi‑disciplinary team and external agencies to ensure patients' on‑going physical, spiritual, emotional and social needs are met.
* Ensure that high standards of nursing care are given and maintained and act when standards are not being maintained.
* Act as an advocate for your patients, ensuring that any barriers to the patient's opinions and wishes being heard are challenged.
Qualifications & Experience
* RGN NMC registration.
* Evidence of recent study and personal development.
* Ability to demonstrate a level of English language and grammar commensurate with writing in service user case notes.
* Experience of successful partnership working arrangements with other services.
* Experience of working in a multi‑disciplinary / multi‑agency health/social care environment.
* Experience working in the NHS, which may include practice placements.
* Ability to lead and manage the team on a regular basis in the absence of the Ward Sister.
* Able to assess, implement and evaluate programmes of care.
* To deliver a high standard of care.
* Evidence of using research to enhance quality of care.
* To act as Hospital Co‑ordinator in the absence of senior personnel.
Equality and Diversity
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs.
Background Checks
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, requiring a Disclosure and Barring Service check. Applicants must have current UK professional registration.
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