Staff Nurse - Acute Medical Unit

Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust; Shrewsbury; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 29,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Shrewsbury is seeking dedicated Staff Nurses to join the Acute Medicine team. You will assess, plan, and deliver high-quality care to patients while ensuring safety and collaborating with a multidisciplinary team. This is an opportunity for both experienced nurses and those early in their careers to thrive in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Learning and development opportunities

In-house training programs

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• Registered nurse with the ability to assess and plan individualised patient care.
• Capability to deliver high quality care without direct supervision.
• Experience in recognizing changes in patients' conditions.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate individual patient care and ensure collaboration with the team.
• Deliver high quality care and assess changes in patient conditions.
• Maintain patient safety and record information accurately.

Skills

Patient care

Assessment and planning

Teamwork

Communication

Record keeping

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity to join Acute Medicine, this includes a 20 bedded Acute Medical Unit (AMU) and an Acute Medical Assessment (AMA) Assessing and planning care for medical patients predominantly referred by our Emergency Department or clinical colleagues in the community.

To support Acute Medicine, we are looking for dedicated Staff Nurses to join our team. Whether you are an experienced nurse looking for your next move, or you are still early in your nursing career, you will find a welcoming and supportive environment here at SATH to encourage you to reach your full potential with the Acute Medical team.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation of individualised patient care, working in partnership with patients, their carers and the multi-disciplinary team to ensure the patient's physical, spiritual and emotional needs are met.
• Formulate and deliver high quality patient care without direct supervision, seeking guidance on actions that are outside agreed defined standards.
• Recognise changes in patients' conditions which require the intervention of others and ensure that timely referrals are made or escalation procedures enacted as appropriate.
• Ensure patient safety is maintained at all times. Record and report adverse and potentially adverse events and assist with investigation of such events, ensuring learning is shared with the wider team(s).
• Record information about patients in a safe, accurate and consistent manner using appropriate tools and techniques, including electronic and written formats as close to point of care as possible.
• Access and use patient clinical diagnostic information to inform clinical decisions.

Working for our organisation

As a Trust, we are passionate about helping our staff to achieve their career aspirations, and can offer a variety of learning and development opportunities to support your continued professional development. Working with the Transforming Care Institute we can also offer in-house training such as degree/master modules, secondments and acting up opportunities.

We are an organisation that strives to provide high quality, safe care for our patients in an environment which our staff are proud to work in. We believe that by adhering to our Vision ("To provide excellent care for the communities we serve") and working with our Trust Values in mind (Partnering, Ambitious, Caring, Trusted) we can achieve the right results for the people that matter most - our patients and their families.

Equal Opportunities

We are committed to offering an interview to applicants from the Armed Forces community who meet the minimum criteria for the position. In addition, for those who are successfully appointed from the Armed Forces community, the Trust are committed to recognising previous service and rank in terms of pay, annual leave and other terms and conditions.

We are committed to equal opportunities in employment. The policies and practices of the Trust aim to promote an environment that is free from all forms of unlawful or unfair discrimination and values the diversity of all people. At the heart of our policy, we seek to treat people fairly, flexibly and with dignity and respect.

We are committed to making the Trust a great place to work, where all staff can reach their full potential and bring their whole self to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and welcome and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.

Diversity and Inclusion

Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people from an Ethnic minority background are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

We aim to create a trusting, flexible workplace, that attracts talent and enables everyone to be their best working self. Many of our colleagues work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need. We can't promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise a fair and equitable process that balances your needs, the needs of our patients and service delivery.

Thank you for your interest in The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, we look forward to receiving your application for employment.