Registered Nurse - Swift Ward

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working patterns

Positive work life balance

Job summary

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Teaching Trust is recruiting a Registered Nurse for their trauma & orthopaedics services. The role involves working on Swift ward, a 27-bed orthopaedic unit, with emphasis on autonomous, nurse-led, patient-centred care and enhanced recovery pathways.

You will join a multidisciplinary team to facilitate swift discharges, provide wound care, manage deteriorating patients and support the discharge team while covering long days, nights, weekends, and bank holidays as

Qualifications

• Must be a registered nurse with current NMC registration.
• Experience in trauma & orthopaedics preferred.
• Ability to support ADLs, wound care and patient monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Support patient with their ADL's
• Facilitate the safe and speedy discharges
• Post op wound care
• Managing deteriorating patients
• Provide patient centred/focused care
• Work with multidisciplinary teams
• Support clinical support workers in their duties

Skills

Registered Nurse

Trauma & Orthopaedics

Education

NMC Registration

Job description

We are recruiting for a Registered Nurse who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

Are you a registered nurse, looking for a role within trauma & orthopaedics?

We are in the top three NHS hospital groups in the East of England for size, so, you’ll work with a great mix of patients.

Swift ward is a 27 bedded emergency & elective orthopaedic ward, compromising of single and double patient rooms. As a department we focus on autonomous and nurse led/ patient focused care. As a department, we focus heavily on enhanced recovery, with patients staying on average 2 days post surgery.

As a registered nurse, you will work closely with your nursing colleagues as well as the wider multidisciplinary team, consisting of doctors, physios, OT and the discharge team. to facilitate the speedy and safe discharges of our patients.

This role will include Long days, short days, nights, weekends and bank holidays as per rota.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

As a registered nurse you will provide a high standard of care and support the team to deliver a high quality service which is linked to high standards of patient care.

Your Main Responsibilities Include

• Support patient with their ADL's
• Facilitate the safe and speedy discharges
• Post op wound care
• Managing deteriorating patients
• Provide patient centred/ focused care
• Work with multidisciplinary teams
• Support clinical support workers in their duties

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Teaching Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We Run The Following Hospitals

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Claudia Prince Job title: Nurse Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01438288137