Registered Nurse - Priority Assessment + Discharge Unit

University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust; Lancaster; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider seeks a dynamic Registered Nurse for the Priority Assessment + Discharge Unit at Royal Lancaster Infirmary. This fixed-term role involves collaborating with medical teams, ensuring patient care, and facilitating safe discharges. Candidates should possess UK professional nursing registration and demonstrate proactive teamwork skills.

Qualifications

• Must be a registered nurse with appropriate UK certification.
• Experience in emergency care preferred.
• Ability to work flexibly as part of a team.

Responsibilities

• Liaise with emergency department and medical teams.
• Utilise assessment skills for patient discharge.
• Provide high-quality patient-focused care.

Skills

Patient Care

Assessment Skills

Team Collaboration

Education

UK Professional Registration as a Nurse

Job description

Registered Nurse - Priority Assessment + Discharge Unit

NHS AfC: Band 5

Main area Medicine Grade NHS AfC: Band 5 Contract 10 months (Fixed Term) Hours

• Full time
• Part time

34.5 hours per week (Long & Short Days) Job ref 331-L17410625

Site Royal Lancaster Infirmary Town Lancaster Salary £29,970 - £36,483 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 29/06/2025 23:59

''Creating a great place to be cared for and a great place to work''

University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay has a firm commitment to strengthening the diversity of our workforce, and therefore welcome and encourage applications from likeminded people who can support our ambition to become effortlessly inclusive. We are particularly keen to hear from protected groups – including BAME, LGBT+ and people with a disability.

Job overview

10 month fixed term contract or a 10month secondment opportunity - Covering maternity leave

We are looking for a dynamic, proactive and flexible nurse to work on the Priority assessment Unit and Discharge Unit and be involved in the evolution of the Frailty Same Day Emergency Care ( FIT SDEC) at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary.

You must be highly motivated, with a desire to build and enhance a proactive team, as a developing unit the role will expand as the service dictates.

This new unit provides care to a range of groups of patients:

• Patients from the Emergency Department awaiting specialist Intervention from Medical / Surgical / Orthopaedic / Gynae teams
• Patients who have been medically discharged from hospital care and required their discharge facilitating
• Frailly SDEC is a dedicated unit to provide assessment for frailty patients streamed from the emergency department

Main duties of the job

You will be required to:

· Liaise directly with the ED / surgical / medical teams involved

· Confident to utilising Clinical Criteria for Discharge and utilising your assessment skills to facilitate this

· Link in with wards and have the confidence to go into all areas to facilitate the moving of patients suitable for the discharge unit

· Liaise with discharge teams + UCAS and utilise the STRATA system

· Liaise with pharmacy to ensure all mediations dispensed to patients are accurate and discuss any changes with the patient, escalate appropriately.

· Be able to work as an effective team member and can work flexibly

· Be able to deliver high quality patient focused care and be motivated and dedicated to improving clinical practice.

· Be committed to personal and staff development, act as mentor/assessor in the clinical environment

The role includes covering 7 day working including long days, short shifts

Anyone newly appointed to the trust will be subject to the completion of a satisfactory 6 month probationary period (this includes bank staff). This will give the new staff member an opportunity to become familiar with the role and working environment.

If you require any further information please contact:

Working for our organisation

We operate from three main hospitals - Furness General Hospital (FGH) in Barrow, the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI), and Westmorland General Hospital (WGH) in Kendal, as well as a number of community healthcare premises including Millom Hospital and GP Practice, Queen Victoria Hospital in Morecambe, and Ulverston Community Health Centre.

FGH and the RLI have a range of General Hospital services, with full Emergency Departments, Critical/Coronary Care units and various Consultant-led services.

WGH provides a range of General Hospital services, together with an Urgent Treatment Centre, that can help with a range of non-life threatening conditions such as broken bones and minor illnesses.

All three main hospitals provide a range of planned care including outpatients, diagnostics, therapies, day case and inpatient surgery. In addition, a range of local outreach services and diagnostics are provided from community facilities across Morecambe Bay.

Our community services for adults are provided in people’s homes, community centres, clinics, GP Practices, community hospitals and our main hospitals. Our aim is to work with people to help them remain independent, improve their health and manage their conditions through high quality care, advice and support.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay visiting our website https://www.uhmb.nhs.uk/

PLEASE NOTE THAT SHORTLISTED APPLICANTS WILL BE CONTACTED BY EMAIL.

The Trust promotes flexible working opportunities where ever possible to enable staff to balance their work and home life. We are committed to Equal Opportunities and aim to be EffortlesslyInclusive .

The trust operates a No Smoking Policy.

Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our Person Specification will be shortlisted for Interview.

We reserve the right to close a job advert early where sufficient applications have been received.

The Trust does not offer interview expenses to shortlisted candidates unless indicated in the advert

If the post is subject to Disclosure & Barring Service checking, (formally CRB) a charge of £49.50 for Enhanced and £21.50 for Standard clearance and additional to this a £4.90 administration fee will be made to the successful candidate(s). This currently only applies to roles Band 6 and above and Medical & Dental posts.

Anyone newly appointed to the trust under the Agenda For Change contract, will be subject to the completion of a satisfactory 6 month probationary period. This will give the new staff member an opportunity to become familiar with the role and working environment.

We have introduced a new system called Pre-Onboarding, specifically to support you right the way through to your first few months in your new role with us atUHMB. This bespoke site has lots of useful information to help you settle into your new roleincluding: what to expect from the recruitment clearances process, where to get a uniform, when you'll get paid etc. As well as information on a number of our services i.e. Infection Prevention, Anti-fraud, Inclusion and Diversity, Care Certificates and much more. To access click on this linkhttps://www.uhmb.nhs.uk/uhmbt-pre-onboarding .

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.