Staff Nurse

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust; Rushden; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 32,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Rushden is seeking a compassionate Staff Nurse to join their expanding team. In this role, you will provide quality care to patients in a rehabilitation and sub-acute setting, helping them transition from acute care. You will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team and be involved in various clinical skills, ensuring personalized care is maintained. Ideal candidates must hold NMC registration or qualify soon.

Qualifications

• Must be on the NMC register or due to qualify within the next 6 months.
• Experience in rehabilitation and sub-acute care is preferred.
• Ability to work in a 24/7 rota.

Responsibilities

• Assess healthcare needs and develop personalized care plans.
• Monitor quality of care and work towards patient discharge.
• Carry out complex clinical skills, including medication and wound care.

Skills

Patient assessment

Medication administration

Complex wound care

Team collaboration

Education

NMC registration or student nurse qualification

Job description

Overview

37.5 hrs per week, part time hours may be considered with a minimum of 25 hours per week. Long and short days are available on a 24/7 rota basis. Join our highly skilled, motivated and innovative team including medics, nurses, physiotherapists and occupational therapists, all ward based to ensure that our patients receive the best possible individualised care, all in single rooms. Spinneyfields is one of five Community Hospitals within Northamptonshire that work closely to share best practice and develop services for our local population. Spinneyfields is recently going through an expansion with the aim to have 51 beds including rehabilitation beds, extended stay beds and "resolving dementia and delirium" beds.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will need to provide quality care for a group of patients, specialising in rehabilitation and sub-acute care from patients stepping down from acute hospitals and step up patients for acute hospital admission avoidance in a physical health inpatient unit. As a Staff Nurse you will:

• assess the healthcare needs of patients and develop care plans reflecting their needs
• monitor the quality of care they\'re receiving
• work closely with the MDT to set goals towards discharge
• carryout clinical skills such as complex medication administration, intravenous medications and fluid administration, syringe pump use, enteral feeding, complex wound care and catheterisation
• Assist the Ward Sister in managing a team of patients, supervision and delegation to junior staff.

To apply you must be on the NMC register or due qualify within the next 6 months if you are currently a student nurse.

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.