NRC Band 5 Staff Nurse

Job overview

Do you have a passion for transforming the lives of people who have experienced severe injury or illness? Here at the National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) you will join an innovative, forward thinking team with the collective objective of providing first class rehabilitation to our patients.

Please apply to become a Band 5 Staff Nurse in Rehabilitation if you wish to become part of our journey to creating a better future for rehabilitation patients. This post is integral to providing high quality, safe, compassionate and efficient care in an innovative way at the NRC.

If you were successful you would become a key part of shaping the service going forwards and paving the future of rehabilitation in the UK. The model is to deliver rehabilitation regionally, with the East Midlands being the first, with others to follow.

Why choose the NRC? You will be at the forefront of big change over the next few years. Your contribution will be vital but not only that, you will be supported to grow and learn through our many developmental programmes at the NRC as well as to engaging in research an innovation.

Planning for the NRC is in its advanced stages, and the building will be ready in the summer of 2025. This role will be temporarily based at our current unit Linden Lodge at City Hospital until we move to the 70 bed NRC facility in summer 2025.

For more details of the centre please visit the NRC website www.nationalrehabilitationcentre.nhs.uk.

Main duties of the job

Assess the care needs of patients and develop a program of care which is evaluated and amended as appropriate.

Carry out relevant forms of direct and indirect patient care without direct supervision.

Work as part of the interdisciplinary team to assess, evaluate and deliver care to patients..

Utilise and integrate evidence into practice.

Assess the case needs of patients and develop a program of care which is evaluated and implemented as appropriate.

Make sound clinical decisions based on the assessment of patients, including that of safe nurse lead discharges.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the job description and person specification attached to the advert for the full details of the vacancy.