Spire Harpenden Hospital has an exciting opportunity for a Registered Nurse to join the bank team in the Pre-Operative Department.
Duties and responsibilities:
To provide exemplary planned care for patients and assist in the management and organisation of care provision in a variety of hospital settings
- Assess patients’ health and wellbeing across a complex and changing caseload.
- Assist in the delivery of care to meet individuals’ health and wellbeing needs
- Provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information.
- Develop own knowledge and skills and that of others.
- Promotes best practice in health and safety and security.
- Assist in maintaining and developing services.
- Contribute to quality improvement.
- Promote people’s equality, diversity and rights.
- Acknowledge the risk of Healthcare Associated Infections (HCAI) and understand own responsibility as agreed with line manager in the prevention and control of HCAI.
Who we're looking for:
- Registered Nurse
- Working towards a post registration qualification in a clinical specialism
- Working in teams
- Work with minimum supervision
- Experience of applying clinical reasoning skills to a range of complex and varied patient case mixes
- Experience in a caring role
- Competence across a range of nursing skills supported by professional and clinical knowledge
- Possess the mandatory training requirements for role including infection control and health and safety competencies.
- Demonstrate principles of accountable practice
- English language to IELTS 7.0
- Possess Equipment and Medical Devices Competences
- Trained on MS Office and other relevant packages
- Root cause analysis
What we offer:
- Competitive rates
- Free onsite car park
- Access to Spire Healthcare pension
- Access to Blue Light Card discounts
- Smartspending discounts via ‘Spire for You’
- Wellbeing Centre access via ‘Spire for You’
- Free uniform
- Free DBS
- Full induction, including mandatory training updates
- Opportunities for further training and progression into permanent posts
Our Values:
We are extremely proud of our heritage in private healthcare and of our values as an organisation:
- Driving clinical excellence
- Doing the right thing
- Caring is our passion.
- Keeping it simple
- Succeeding and celebrating together
We commit to our employees’ well-being through work life balance, on-going development, support and reward.
Spire Healthcare is an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture for all.