Staff Nurse

Job overview

This post also includes paid enhancements for unsocial hours working during night, weekends and bank holidays.

Our Staff Nurses work within multi-professional teams leading patient care and contributing to complex discharge planning. They provide 24/7 care, admitting patients from acute services and community step up.

Our patients all have complex conditions and multiple pathologies which require knowledge and creativity to manage well.

We are looking for positive, proactive nurses who want to develop their knowledge, skills and experience and develop leadership skills in planning and managing patient care from admission to discharge.

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £26.40 (standard) or £54.40 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first 2 months of employment.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. An annual fee of £16 per year applies.

Main duties of the job

Our committed team of highly skilled Staff Nurses on our in-patient wards provide high level, patient focused care supporting people with complex, predominantly physical long term conditions, and people following an episode of acute care who require some further rehabilitation prior to returning home. They work closely with Allied Health Professionals and medical teams leading the planning of complex discharges and on-going community care. They develop skills, knowledge and experience in a wide range of physical conditions and multiple pathologies.

They support Student Nurses and Trainee Nurse Associates to develop our future workforce and have an excellent reputation for their teaching and support.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We are pleased to have the opportunity to increase our Band 5 Staff Nurse workforce and offer posts for Registered General Nurses and Registered Mental Health Nurses to join our committed teams on the in-patient wards at Lings Bar Hospital, Gamston, Nottingham, NG2 6PR.

We are working to provide both physical and mental health support to our older patients and are therefore broadening the skills and knowledge of our teams, by seeking to employ RMNs and RNs on the wards.

We are looking for nurses who have a passion and commitment to caring for older people - people who have a wide range of complex conditions, supporting them to return home to continue their rehabilitation journey. We want nurses who put the 6Cs into practice on a daily basis and have a supportive and considerate nature, to work within a cohesive inter-professional ward team.

We offer the chance to develop your professional decision making and complex care management skills as we are a predominantly nurse and therapy led unit.

As one of our team you would develop skills in caring for a wide range of long term conditions preparing you for a career path in many different areas of nursing.

We are committed to your personal professional development and offer a range of preceptorship development courses for newly qualified nurses and further development opportunities in a range of areas for more experienced staff nurses.

We encourage you to bring your existing skills and experiences to enrich our clinical area and work with us to create a robust, caring and compassionate hospital environment for our patients, who deserve the best.

We can offer full and part time posts.