AAU Staff Nurse (Band 5)

Job overview

Medical nursing within the ward environments at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust can be challenging, demanding, but at Airedale we aim to be skilled and responsive to the needs of our patient group.

We provide a creative, enthusiastic and motivating environment and are situated in the natural beauty of the Yorkshire Dales.  We are committed to education and practice development and an individualised induction package designed to meet your personal requirements.

In exchange for your skills and commitment, we offer an excellent NHS pension scheme, generous annual leave, various staff discounts and extensive in house training and support, within this close knit and friendly team.

Main duties of the job

Acute Assessment Unit

Our new purpose built unit opened in April 2018 and sits beside our state of art Emergency Department. The Acute Assessment Unit (AAU) is a 43 bedded unit that cares for patients who require an urgent medical, surgical or orthopaedic assessment and short stay. The AAU works collaboratively with the emergency department and Ambulatory Care as an Urgent Care division to provide treatment to the acutely ill patient.

We require enthusiastic and motivated individuals to join and be a part of our multi-professional team, to work and grow in this very busy and challenging AAU. Opportunities exist to rotate to each area to provide a varied professional development and experiences within the field of Urgent Care.

You will be supported to maintain your professional developments through our Training and Education Centre, as well as being mentored and taught by our own Urgent Care Clinical Educator.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see further details for this vacancy including Job Description and Person Specification in the attached documents.