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:
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
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:
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 Registered Nurse with Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, you will:
20. Provide constant monitoring and care for patients in a seriously ill or unstable condition.
21. 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.
22. Safely identify, prepare, check, and assemble equipment required for the relevant operating list.
23. Adhere to the NMC professional Code of Conduct.
24. 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.
25. Write care plans, perform assessments, and make referrals.
26. Organise admissions and discharges to and from the ward.
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.
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.