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.
Buckingham Community Hospital is one of several Community Hospitals within the Trust.
Come and join the Discharge Lounge Team and work as a competent practitioner. To facilitate a high standard, efficient and friendly service for patients whilst waiting in the department. To meet service objectives and work within the operational policy. To maintain a safe working environment.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the team. The successful candidate will ensure that patients are discharged in a safe and timely manner working closely with all health care professionals including the site team and Discharge Flow Co-ordinator to facilitate this enabling the staff in Discharge Lounge to pull patients from the wards/departments to have a positive impact on flow from ED to the wards.
In the Discharge Lounge we accept patients from all departments /wards in the hospital whilst they are awaiting their medications or transport.
Main duties of the job
1. To participate in and ensure that staff within the clinical area deliver evidence based nursing care in line with Trust policies, procedures and guidelines.
2. To take charge of the team in the absence of senior nurses and ensure the smooth running of the department.
3. To be an effective team member, participating in the process of positively encouraging and supporting colleagues to maintain and improve standards of quality practice.
4. Participates in teaching in the clinical areas as required.
5. To promote collaborative working partnership and effective communication between all members of the multi-disciplinary team.
Working for our organisation
Be part of our BHT family
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What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
6. As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
7. We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
8. We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
Why work for us?
9. 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.
10. As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued, and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
11. Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
What do we stand for?
12. Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
13. Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
14. Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.
Person specification
EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING
Essential criteria
15. Registered Nurse/Awaiting NMC PIN
Desirable criteria
16. Evidence of further continued professional development
Experience
Essential criteria
17. Ability to understand the role of a registered nurse
18. Ability to work as part of a team and on own initiative
19. Awareness of current professional nursing issues
20. Demonstrates understanding of the importance of audit/quality
Desirable criteria
21. Post registration experience working in an acute hospital setting
SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
22. Ability to manage and prioritise own caseload with supervision
Desirable criteria
23. Awareness of the NHSE guidance of clinical governance in order to continuously improve quality of care e.g. quality, safety and ward audit standards
24. Willingness to develop teaching skills
25. Knowledge of care planning, preceptorship, reflection and clinical supervision
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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