Client Name: Shropshire Community
Role: Band 5 Registered Nurse
Locations: Ludlow, Bridgnorth, Bishop's castle, Whitchurch
Shifts: Flexible hours, with shifts available throughout the day, night & at weekends.
Benefits:
1. Access to Care4Carers to help support your mental health and well being and enable you to deliver outstanding care.
2. Competitive pay rates
3. First sight of agency nursing shifts across multiple trusts
4. Next-day payroll
5. Block bookings in your favourite locations
6. Excellent support from your own dedicated consultant
7. Revalidation support
Working alongside a friendly, welcoming team of dedicated professionals, you will be utilising these resources to provide emergency treatment and ongoing medical care of the highest calibre to patients.
Skills focus
Working calmly across various high-pressure environments, you will be drawing on your quick-thinking abilities as well as your clinical knowledge and understanding. With responsibility for writing care plans, performing assessments and making referrals, alongside your clinical care tasks, this role will continuously challenge you to develop and consolidate your skills.
General key skills
In addition to your qualifications, as a Band 5 Registered Nurse, you will have:
8. quick thinking abilities
9. patience and the ability to remain calm in stressful situations
10. excellent attention to detail & timekeeping
11. a methodical approach to tasks
12. the ability to work well and under pressure
13. empathy, understanding & a flexible attitude
14. a desire to learn and improve
15. the ability to use a computer competently
Main Duties/Responsibilities
As a Band 5 Registered Nurse, you will:
16. Provide constant monitoring and care for patients in a seriously ill or unstable condition.
17. Actively support emergency admissions, planned admissions and post-surgery patients and their families, communicating clinical information using a variety of methods, to ensure effective understanding.
18. Safely identify, prepare, check, and assemble equipment required for the relevant operating list.
19. Adhere to the NMC professional Code of Conduct.
20. Take blood/fit a cannula and undertake patient observations (blood pressure, temperature, pulse, respiration rate and oxygen level) as patient need dictates throughout the shift.
21. Write care plans, perform assessments, and make referrals.
22. Organise admissions and discharges to and from the ward.
Qualifications/Licenses/Certifications
Essential
23. Be a Registered Nurse.
24. At least 2 years post-graduate experience.
25. 6 months recent NHS experience within the last 3 years.
26. You will need to pass an enhanced background check.
A business with a future
If you are ready to take a leap forward in your career, apply today to work in the best teaching hospitals in the country and enjoy flexible hours, next day payroll and excellent support from your own dedicated consultant.