Staff Nurse

Job overview

Gt Y Acute is an 18 bed mixed ward with the purpose of  admission and assessment . We are looking for a person who is kind and  compassionate to others, and has a focus on person centred care.

You will be working among a team of Doctors, Nurses, clinical support workers,  physiotherapists, social workers, psycho therapists and Occupational Therapists. You will closely with the loved ones of service users to integrate life story work into the care planning of service users.

Within this job role you will be offered training, as well as at least monthly support by your line-manager. We believe that within a team it is important that staff feel listened to, and are able to make change happen.

Main duties of the job

• Keeping accurate records, updating care plans and risk assessments
• Monitoring a service users physical health and being able to respond to a deteriorating patient
• Relevant assessments for nurses - such as risk assessments, physical health assessments such as MUST and Waterlow, falls assessments.
• Leading a variety of meetings such as MDT, admission, best interest and discharge planning meetings
• Be able to act in a service users best interests, act as an advocate for those who cannot advocate for themselves
• Be able to assess capacity of a service user
• Supervising and assessing student nurses
• Provide line management supervision to clinical support worker staff
• Be accountable for their work and be a reflective practitioner
• Complete medication rounds and administer IM medication
• Communicate regularly with carers
• Complete nursing assessments such as continuing health care.
• Over see the admission and discharge processes on the ward
• Working within legalities of the job, checking of T2/T3 forms, reading of 132 rights, writing tribunal reports where necessary.
• Management and oversight of the 136 suite

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.

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