Staff Nurse

Bidvane; Wirral; Remote; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

The Staff Nurse position on Ward 22 in the Department of Medicine for the Elderly at Wirral University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust requires a commitment to assessing, planning, delivering, and evaluating care for a named patient caseload. The role involves coordinating care with relatives, carers, and the multidisciplinary team in a busy ward caring for older people with complex needs.

You'll promote dignity and independence, maintain up-to-date clinical knowledge, and act as shift coordinator

Qualifications

• Evidence of professional development.
• NMC registration.
• Experience maintaining accurate records.
• Relevant clinical knowledge and experience.

Responsibilities

• Assess, plan, deliver and evaluate nursing care for a named patient caseload, including responsibility for patients’ property and valuables
• Help create a therapeutic environment that meets the needs of patients, relatives and carers
• Work with other members of the multidisciplinary team
• Follow Trust objectives, policies, protocols and guidelines
• Promote critical and analytical approaches to care and contribute to implementing change
• Participate in audits
• Keep clinical skills and knowledge up to date and maintain awareness of clinical issues
• Act as shift coordinator when the Ward or Departmental Manager and their deputy are absent

Skills

Evidence-based practice

Organisational skills

Time-management

Communication skills

Teamwork

Problem solving

Education

Professional development

Job description

The Staff Nurse post is on Ward 22 in the Department of Medicine for the Elderly at Wirral University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. It involves assessing, planning, delivering and evaluating care for a named patient caseload, while working with relatives, carers and the multidisciplinary team. The work focuses on older people with complex needs in a busy ward, with responsibility for promoting dignity and independence and coordinating shifts when senior ward leads are absent. NMC registration is required.

What the job involves

• Assess, plan, deliver and evaluate nursing care for a named patient caseload, including responsibility for patients’ property and valuables
• Help create a therapeutic environment that meets the needs of patients, relatives and carers
• Work with other members of the multidisciplinary team
• Follow Trust objectives, policies, protocols and guidelines
• Promote critical and analytical approaches to care and contribute to implementing change
• Participate in audits
• Keep clinical skills and knowledge up to date and maintain awareness of clinical issues
• Act as shift coordinator when the Ward or Departmental Manager and their deputy are absent

Qualifications

• Evidence of professional development

Registration & licences

• NMC registration

Experience

• Experience maintaining accurate records
• Relevant clinical knowledge and experience

Skills & knowledge

• Awareness of evidence-based practice
• Good organisational and time-management skills, including prioritising own and others’ workloads
• Ability to manage an acute workload
• Good written and verbal communication, including communicating effectively at all levels
• Recognition of the importance of teamwork
• Problem-solving skills

Other

• Suitable for newly qualified or experienced staff nurses

Nice to have

• Experience acting as a practice supervisor and willingness to undertake Practice Assessor Training
• Relevant degree or willingness to register to work towards one
• Relevant module or course, or willingness to undertake one
• NHS experience and awareness of health policies and the changing NHS environment
• Teaching experience, including student nurse assessment or supervision, mentoring or preceptorship, and producing teaching materials
• Relevant specialty knowledge or experience and evidence of an initiative that changed or improved clinical practice
• Competence organising own and others’ workloads
• Good problem-solving and time-management skills