Bank General Nurse Band 5

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking NHS foundation trust as a band 5 registered nurse. This role offers the flexibility of bank shifts across diverse clinical settings, allowing you to balance work and life effectively. As part of a dedicated multidisciplinary team, you will provide exceptional patient care, manage complex health needs, and contribute to a culture of continuous professional development. With a commitment to equality and diversity, this organization welcomes applicants from all backgrounds. Embrace the opportunity to make a real difference in patients' lives while advancing your nursing career in a supportive environment.

Qualifications

• Must have appropriate UK professional registration.
• 18 months experience in General Medical/Surgical and Elderly care.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality care to patients in various clinical settings.
• Assess care needs and develop care programs.

Skills

Patient Care

Wound Management

Pain Management

Diabetes Management

Health Promotion

Patient Education

Discharge Planning

Teamwork

Customer Care

IT Literacy

Education

UK Professional Registration

18 Months Experience as Staff Nurse

Job description

Our current vacancies

If you want to be part of the Royal Free London team, search our current vacancies below to find the job for you.

Our trust has over 17,000 staff serving 2 million patients every year. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital, North Middlesex University Hospital, and more than 30 services in the community. This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.

Our mission is to deliver world-class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world-class teaching and research, and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.

Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers, and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

Here at The Royal Free Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, we are passionate about delivering the highest quality care to all our patients. In order to help us achieve this, we are looking for enthusiastic, motivated, and committed band 5 registered nurses to join our temporary staffing bank.

As a trust bank nurse, you will be able to choose a flexible working pattern to suit your work-life balance in a variety of clinical settings working as part of a committed multidisciplinary team.

Main duties of the job

Working shifts as a bank registered nurse across wards and departments as part of the multidisciplinary team, in a variety of clinical settings to deliver the highest quality care to our patients, in line with our trust values.

As an accountable registered nurse, you will be responsible for delivering excellent care to an allocated group of patients providing total patient care for each clinical area you work on.

Clinical duties, across a range of clinical settings, include acute medical care, managing deteriorating patients, wound management, pain management, diabetes management, health promotion, patient education, complex discharge planning, sepsis treatment, end-of-life care, dementia, and delirium care.

Working for our organisation

We offer a variety of bank shifts both days, nights, and weekends across all our sites with competitive hourly rates. Our long day and night shift are paid at 11.5 hours.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder is responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation, and evaluation of programmes of care.

He/she is expected to teach unqualified staff.

The post holder will be expected to liaise appropriately with all key members of the multi-disciplinary team and service users related to patients.

Person specification

Royal Free World Class Values

• Demonstrate ability to meet the Trust Values

Education & Qualifications

Experience

• 18 months experience as staff Nurse
• Recent clinical experience in General Medical/Surgical and Elderly care setting
• Experience of working within a team
• Knowledge of acutely unwell adult patients
• Interest in learning and developing advancing practical and clinical skills relevant to the specialty
• Can demonstrate a good understanding of good customer care
• Knowledge/understanding of basic organisational skills

Personal Qualities

• Able to work shifts and internal rotation to night duty
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Positive, professional, and polite
• Able to work under pressure to meet deadlines
• IT literate

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020, and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.