Client Name: Mid & South Essex - Southend Hospital
Role: Band 5 A&E Nurse
R ates: Hourly - £16.00 - £35.00
Shifts: Flexible hours, with shifts available throughout the day, night and at weekends.
Location: Mid & South Essex
Benefits:
1. Access to Care4Carers - our support service to help support your mental health and wellbeing 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
8. 24/7/365 service - we're available when you need us
Working alongside a friendly, welcoming team of 11,000 dedicated healthcare professionals, you will be using some of the most advanced medical equipment in the country to provide constant monitoring and care for patients in a seriously ill or unstable condition.
Development and opportunities
The Trust is highly regarded for its facilities, teaching and research. So, as a member of the A&E nursing team, you will have access to a wide range of development and support packages to ensure you are progressing your skills and your career at every opportunity.
A business with a future
Build a strong, stable, and rewarding career at the Mid & South Essex and become a key element within their vision of excellence in employment, education, development, and sector-leading research.
Skills focus
As a specialist Major Trauma Centre, it is essential that you can work calmly in this high-pressure environment. You will be drawing on your quick-thinking abilities as well as your clinical knowledge to assess and prioritise patient requirements alongside carrying out your clinical care tasks.
Patient focus
Your clinical knowledge and experience will help you to support seriously ill patients and their families throughout what can be a stressful and uncertain time. You will be carrying out essential tasks such as taking blood and undertaking patient observations for emergency admissions. Your calm, reassuring nature and empathy will help ensure patients feel safe in your hands.
General key skills
In addition to your qualifications, as a Band 5 A&E Nurse, you will have:
9. quick thinking abilities
10. patience and the ability to remain calm in stressful situations
11. excellent attention to detail
12. a methodical approach to tasks
13. excellent timekeeping
14. the ability to work well and under pressure
15. empathy and understanding
16. a flexible attitude
17. a desire to learn and improve
18. active listening skills
19. the ability to use a computer competently
Main Duties/Responsibilities
As a Band 5 A&E Nurse with Mid & Southe Essex NHS Trust, you will:
20. Provide constant monitoring and care for patients in a seriously ill or unstable condition.
21. Actively supporting emergency admissions and their families, communicating clinical information using a variety of methods, to ensure effective understanding.
22. Assess and prioritise patient/client requirements, delegating effectively to others.
23. To recognise, review and report patients/clients' condition and any changes to it to senior members of staff within the multidisciplinary team.
24. Responsible for adhering to the NMC professional Code of Conduct.
25. Taking blood/fitting a canula, undertake patient observations (blood pressure, temperature, pulse, respiration rate and oxygen level) as patient need dictates throughout the shift.
26. Treatment of resus patients and Triage
Qualifications/Licenses/Certifications
Essential
27. Be a registered nurse.
28. At least 2 years post-graduate experience.
29. 6 months recent NHS experience within the last 3 years.
30. You will need to pass an enhanced background check.