Staff Nurse | Pre-Assessment | Bank- Flexible Working| Havant, Hampshire
Spire Portsmouth Hospital has an exciting opportunity to join the staffing bank as a Staff Nurse in the pre-assessment department. You will be based in our Pre-Assessment unit, working alongside an experienced and dynamic team covering a wide variety of specialisms.
Spire Portsmouth Hospital offers world-class care within beautiful surroundings and is part of one of the UK’s most respected private hospital groups. With a full multidisciplinary medical team, you can get fast access to expert healthcare, from consultations and diagnosis to personalised treatments and as much aftercare as you clinically need.
Duties and responsibilities:
* You will support in assessing patient’s health and well-being across a complex and changing caseload
* Undertake electronic pre-operative assessment of patients
* Identify and escalate patients of concern against the hospital's admission criteria to senior nursing staff
* Ability to undertake a full patient health assessment and triage their pre-operative assessment requirements
* Assist in the delivery of care to meet the individuals’ health and wellbeing needs.
* Provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information
* Develop own knowledge and skills and that of others
* Promote best practice in health and safety and security
* Assist in maintaining and developing services
Who we're looking for:
* You will be a Registered Nurse with no restrictions on practice
* Be used to working in teams with minimum supervision
* Experience of working in an acute environment
* Competence across a range of skills, supported by professional and clinical knowledge acquired through state registration
* A surgical background is desirable but we are happy to consider Nurses with an interest in developing their experience in this field
* Advanced IT skills for electronic pre-operative assessment system
* Phlebotomy, venepuncture and ECG skills desirable (or willing to be trained).
* Outstanding communication skills
Benefits
* Bank colleagues are paid weekly
* We offer competitive rates to our bank colleagues who work on a flexible basis, often to cover busy periods, sickness, or annual leave
* Unsocial Enhancements, dependent upon shift pattern worked (won’t be applicable for all)
* Access to Spire Healthcare pension
* Access to Blue Light Card discounts
* Smart spending discounts (in addition to Blue Light discounts) via ‘Spire for You’
* Wellbeing Centre access via ‘Spire for You'
* Free uniform
* Free DBS
* Full induction, including mandatory training updates
* Opportunities for further training and progression into permanent posts
* Knowledge, support and guidance through your recruitment journey from Spire’s specialist Resourcing Team
* We offer competitive rates to our bank colleagues who work on a flexible basis, often to cover busy periods, sickness or annual leave.
Our Values
We are extremely proud of our heritage in private healthcare and of our values as an organisation:
* Driving clinical excellence
* Doing the right thing
* Caring is our passion
* Keeping it simple
* Delivering on our promises
* Succeeding and celebrating together
* Our people are our difference; it's their dedication, warmth and pursuit of excellence that sets Spire Healthcare apart.
Closing date: In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications
For us, it's more than just treating patients; it's about looking after people
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