Job overview
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust is a major provider of integrated hospital and community services for people living in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area. This includes Thame (Oxfordshire), Tring (Hertfordshire) and Leighton Buzzard (Bedfordshire). We provide care to over half a million patients every year. We have over 6,000 highly trained clinical staff. This includes doctors, nurses, midwives, health visitors, therapists, and healthcare scientists.
Amersham Hospital is one of several Community Hospitals within the Trust. We have three inpatient areas: Chartridge Ward, Waterside Unit, and Buckinghamshire Neuro Rehabilitation Unit.
Waterside Unit has exciting opportunities for Band 5 Staff Nurses to join their team. This post would be suitable for newly qualified nurses, those due to qualify in the near future, or individuals who already have post-registration experience. Where relevant, we will support you to undertake our Trust Preceptorship programme, offering you the structured support needed to transition your knowledge into everyday practice successfully.
Waterside Unit is a 21 bedded ward within the Integrated Elderly Care Division. We provide inpatient rehabilitation for older adults working closely with our therapy team until ready for discharge home with support or a placement in a Nursing or Residential Home. Our patients often have multiple health needs & chronic conditions.
Main duties of the job
1. Identifying the needs for nursing care of individual patients in the context of prescribed medical care.
2. Undertakes the nursing assessment of the patient, including risk assessments, e.g. Tissue viability, falls etc. and re-evaluates.
3. Planning and delivering an individual programme of nursing care for each patient, incorporating objectives, and re-evaluates.
4. Supervising qualified / unqualified staff, to ensure the optimum application of skills necessary to provide the care planned for each patient.
5. Recording nursing care given and evaluating its outcome in relation to achievement of objectives; modifying care plans accordingly.
6. Acts as a health educator throughout the patients stay.
7. Responds sensitively to the needs of patients families and visitors
Working for our organisation
Listen to why colleagues think we are a great place to work! -
What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
8. As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
9. We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
10. We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
Why work for us?
11. We’re committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
12. As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued, and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
13. Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
What do we stand for?
14. Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
15. Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
16. Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.
Person specification
EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING
Essential criteria
17. Registered Nurse/Awaiting NMC PIN
Desirable criteria
18. Evidence of further continued professional development
19. Post qualification experience in relevant speciality
20. Hold / be working towards an NMC approved mentoring qualification
EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
21. Ability to understand the role of a registered nurse
22. Ability to work as part of a team and on own initiative
23. Awareness of current professional nursing issues
24. Demonstrates understanding of the importance of audit/quality
Desirable criteria
25. Post registration experience working in an acute hospital setting
SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
26. Good verbal and written communication skills and ability to negotiate
27. Ability to manage and prioritise own caseload with supervision
28. Ability to solve problems and use initiative
29. Ability to develop clinical skills
30. Willingness to undergo training (e.g. medications)
31. Basic IT skills
32. Knowledge of the NMC code of conduct
33. Ability to maintain a safe clinical environment conducive to patient care Adaptable to change
34. Ability to work rotating shifts
35. Diplomatic approach with professionalism
36. Flexible and approachable
Desirable criteria
37. Willingness to develop teaching skills
38. Awareness of the NHSE guidance of clinical governance in order to continuously improve quality of care e.g. quality, safety and ward audit standards
39. Knowledge of care planning, preceptorship, reflection and clinical supervision
SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES
Desirable criteria
40. Able to travel to other sites and off site as necessary
41. Maybe required to work in other departments if requested to do so
PPE requirements: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.
COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.
Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight, however if we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before the advertised date.
Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records (ESR) system.
Shortlisting: The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.
Travel expenses: It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interviews will not be reimbursed.
Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.
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