Bank - General Inpatient Nurse

NHS; Essex, London; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Join NHS as a Band 5 Registered Nurse and play a crucial role in delivering high-quality patient care across various community hospital locations. We seek reliable, enthusiastic individuals adept at assessing and implementing patient care plans, fostering a dynamic work environment. Enjoy competitive hourly rates, flexible shifts, and opportunities for professional development in an innovative organisation committed to patient care.

Benefits

Access to the NHS pension scheme

Training opportunities

Flexible shifts and hours

Variety of work

Qualifications

• Registered General Nurse qualification.
• Recent clinical experience, preferably in a community or community hospital setting.
• Basic awareness of IT and IT skills.

Responsibilities

• Organising and prioritising own workload.
• Deputising for team manager and delegating tasks.
• Maintaining accurate records for audit purposes.

Skills

Communication

Education

RGN

Tools

IT skills

Job description

Go back NELFT North East London Foundation Trust

Bank - General Inpatient Nurse

The closing date is 01 July 2025

We are seeking Band 5 Registered Nurses to join our growing temporary staff bank service, providing vital support to our inpatient teams across the following locations:

• Brentwood Community Hospital
• Mayflower Community Hospital, Billericay
• Foxglove Ward, King George Hospital
• Heronwood and Galleon, Wanstead Hospital
• Ainslie Rehabilitation Unit, Chingford

As a member of our team, you will play an active role in assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating patient care. Recent clinical experience, preferably in a community or community hospital setting, is essential.

We are looking for reliable, enthusiastic, and self-motivated individuals with excellent verbal and written communication skills to deliver high-quality patient care.

Main duties of the job

Main duties include but are not limited to:

1. To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others workload in the day to day allocation of work.

2. To deputise when required in the team managers absence and delegate appropriately to health care assistants.

3. To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them, particularly administration of medicine and moving and handling.

4. To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.

5. To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust register.

About us

Do you want to be part of an innovative, dynamic organisation that is committed to delivering the best care by the best people? We are looking to appoint people who are as passionate about high quality care as we are.

NELFT provides award winning community and mental healthcare for over 2 million people. We work to ensure our patients, their friends and family, feel confident that their health needs are well met. With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled health professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care.

We are committed to the delivering the best care for our patients. The successful candidate will share this commitment and demonstrate our Trust values.

We operate a temporary staffing service and can offer competitive hourly rates, flexibility of shifts and hours, access to the NHS pension scheme, variety of work and access to training opportunities.

Job responsibilities

The main duties of the post are outlined fully in the attached job description.

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used, then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• RGN

Experience

• Relevant experience of working as part of an inpatient team

knowledge

• An awareness of NHS Plan, NSF and clinical governance priorities

skills

• Basic awareness of IT and IT skills

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.

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust