Client Name: Lancashire Teaching Hospitals
Role: Band 5 Registered Nurse - Accident and Emergency
Rates: £13.41 to £29.78
Shifts: Flexible hours, with shifts available throughout the day, night and at weekends.
Benefits:
* Access to Care4Carers - our support service to help support your mental health and wellbeing and enable you to deliver outstanding care.
* Competitive pay rates
* First sight of agency nursing shifts across multiple trusts
* Next-day payroll
* Block bookings in your favourite locations
* Excellent support from your own dedicated consultant
* Revalidation support
* 24/7/365 service - we're available when you need us
The two main hospital sites serve around 370,000 people from the Chorley, South Ribble and Preston areas. 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.
A business with a future
By joining the Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, you will be building your career on solid and stable foundations, deeply rooted in a culture and vision of excellence in research, innovation, and teaching. If you are looking for a place to work with a bright future, look no further than the Lancashire Teaching Hospitals.
General key skills
In addition to your qualifications, as a Band 5 Registered Nurse, you will have:
* quick thinking abilities
* patience and the ability to remain calm in stressful situations
* excellent attention to detail
* a methodical approach to tasks
* excellent timekeeping
* the ability to work well and under pressure
* empathy and understanding
* a flexible attitude
* a desire to learn and improve
* active listening skills
* the ability to use a computer competently
Main Duties/Responsibilities
As a Band 5 Registered Nurse with Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, you will:
* Provide constant monitoring and care for patients in a seriously ill or unstable condition.
* 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.
* Safely identify, prepare, check, and assemble equipment required for the relevant operating list.
* Adhere to the NMC professional Code of Conduct.
* 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.
* Write care plans, perform assessments, and make referrals.
* Organise admissions and discharges to and from the ward.
Qualifications/Licenses/Certifications
Essential
* Be a Registered Nurse.
* At least 2 years post-graduate experience.
* 6 months recent NHS experience within the last 3 years.
* You will need to pass an enhanced background check.
Development and opportunities
If you are looking for a role within a Trust that can provide the very best opportunities for building a strong, stable career in nursing, apply today.
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