Band 5 - Registered Nurse - A&E - EDGH

NHS; Eastbourne; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 31,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in East Sussex is seeking a Band 5 Registered Nurse to join their busy Emergency Department. The role offers the chance to provide high-quality care to a diverse patient group while participating in continuous professional development. Ideal candidates are motivated, caring, and possess a strong commitment to teamwork. This position supports flexible part-time hours and continuous training opportunities.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with active NMC registration required.
• Relevant nursing qualification necessary.
• Experience in nursing care and mandatory training essential.

Responsibilities

• Deliver safe and high-quality care to patients.
• Conduct patient assessment and develop care programs.
• Collaborate within a multi-disciplinary team and support nursing education.

Skills

Nursing care

Patient assessment

Basic Life Support

Manual handling

Infection control

Education

Diploma/Degree in Nursing

Post Graduate qualification

Job description

We are very busy Emergency Department, treating on average 50,000 patients a year. We are looking for a Band 5 Registered Nurse to join our pro-active and dynamic team.

Every day we value great team work and respect, making sure our patients come first, delivering safe and high-quality care, being responsible and accountable and ensuring everyone's contribution counts.

We are welcoming highly motivated, caring, enthusiastic and innovative individuals to come and join our exciting and dynamic nursing teams. We welcome informal visits so please contact one of us to arrange a telephone conference, or visit, to discuss the exciting opportunities we have to offer. We would be able to offer part time hours however all vacancies are internal rotation.

The Head of Nursing, Matrons, Sister & Charge Nurses also work clinically to ensure high quality care is delivered to our patients and that staff are continually supported in all areas. We have also developed welfare teams so there is always somebody to listen and support you.

Main duties of the job

This is both an extremely exciting opportunity and time for new staff to join us on our journey towards outstanding. We have an Advanced Nurse Practitioner service; we are keen to grow our own workforce and watch our staff progress into autonomous roles such as Advanced Nurse Practitioners and Emergency Nurse Practitioners. Our amazing Emergency Nurse Practitioners Service which sees approx. 25% of all our attendances, we have a range of different skilled adult nurses and dedicated paediatric nurses who are all enthusiastic to share their vast experience and knowledge with you.

We are dedicated to training and education and have strong links to Greenwich, Brighton and Canterbury Universities for both degree and master's courses. We offer a range of courses to suit our staff needs - Advanced physical and paediatric assessment, mentorship, and the full range of resuscitation council courses ATLS, EPLS, PILS, ILS, ALS. During your induction you will be invited to a skills week which is an in-house course run by the ED Matrons where you will learn the essentials to work within our ED's this comprises of intraosseous access, care of the sick child, ILS, PILS. These skills weeks will be repeated during the year with content that the staff request to be taught. We have highly experienced Practice Development Nurses, one of which won Mentor of the Year Award, and we have been nominated Team of the Year by the students we supported in the past.

About us

We are proud to provide 'Outstanding' care and be a great place to work

We provide safe, compassionate and high quality care to half a million people living or visiting East Sussex. We are one of the largest organisations in East Sussex, the only integrated provider of acute and community care in Sussex. Our extensive services are provided by 7000+ members of staff working from acute hospitals in Hastings and Eastbourne, three community hospitals in Bexhill, Rye and Uckfield, over 100 community sites and in people's own homes.

In 2020 the Care Quality Commission (CQC), rated us as 'Good' overall, and 'Outstanding' for being caring and effective. The Conquest Hospital and our Community Services are rated 'Outstanding'. Eastbourne DGH rated 'Good'.

In 2020, the Trust launched its ambitious 'Building for our Future' programme. This once in a lifetime programme aims to repair, redevelop and expand our hospitals, transforming the environment in which we provide care for generations to come

Job responsibilities

For further information or an informal discussion, please contact Mandy Cottingham Head of Nursing on 0300 131 4500 requesting switchboard connect you

Person Specification

• Registered Nurse and hold active registration with Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
• Diploma/Degree level qualification relevant to role
• Professional qualification and knowledge of patient assessment, planning, developing and implementing programmes of care
• Evidence of mandatory and statutory essential training skills, for example, Basic Life Support, manual handling, infection control, fire etc
• Experience in nursing care, knowledge and expertise acquired through training
• Post Graduate qualification at Degree level relevant to role to demonstrate clinical skills
• NHS experience or relevant health care organisation

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.