Staff Nurse - Intensive Care Unit

Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust; England; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 31,000; Full time

Job summary

Join the dedicated team at the Intensive Care Unit of a leading NHS Trust, committed to providing exceptional nursing care. This role offers a 6-week supernumerary period, continuous professional development opportunities, and involvement in a collegial environment that values diversity and excellence in patient care.

Benefits

Comprehensive education package

Holistic wellbeing support programme

Access to a pool

Continuous professional development facilitated by Clinical Nurse Educators

Qualifications

• NMC registered and capable of providing evidence-based patient-centered care.
• Skills in working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team.
• Commitment to continuous professional development.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist nursing care for critically ill patients.
• Maintain high standards of evidence-based patient-centered care.
• Facilitate the efficient running of the Intensive Care Unit.

Skills

Motivated

Enthusiastic

Teamwork

Clinical skills

Education

Registered Nurse qualification

Job description

Join us at an exciting time for the Intensive Care Unit, Royal United Hospital Bath. We have an ambitious plan for our journey to Outstanding and are looking for aspirational, committed individuals to join us, making a real difference to both our staff and patients.

Intensive Care offers an interesting, challenging and rewarding specialism with opportunities to enhance your knowledge and clinical skills, whilst providing excellent nursing care. We are looking for motivated and enthusiastic Band 5 Registered Nurses to become apart of multidisciplinary team.

Our Band 5 Pathway Includes

• A 6 week supernumerary period (including induction and orientation day)
• Progression through the Nationally recognised ‘Critical Care Steps’ Competency Framework
• A comprehensive education package including the Foundations in Critical Care Course.
• On-going continuous professional development is facilitated by a Clinical Nurse Educators.
  
  

About The Unit

We are dedicated to providing care for critically ill patients from across a range of medical and surgical specialties. We have recently moved into our brand-new purpose-built, state of the art unit with ceiling mounted pendants, positive and negative pressure side rooms which maximises safety for staff and patients and have an excellent development programme for all staff that work within ICU.

Hear from our dedicated colleagues in this short video - click here (please note: video was not filmed in the new unit).

To provide specialist nursing care for patients and their families within the Intensive Care environment, in accordance with the NMC code of professional conduct and Trust policies and procedures. To provide high standards of evidence-based patient centered care and to work with the team to maintain the efficient running of the Unit, while developing skills in this area.

At the RUH we’re proud to put people at the heart of what we do, working together as one team to make a difference for our patients, each other, and our community. No matter what your role is, we value everyone’s contribution in supporting the exceptional, person-centred care we pride ourselves on.

We are committed to creating a compassionate and inclusive environment. This can be seen in our growing community of staff networks – celebrating successes and creating opportunities to listen and learn. We value our differences, champion kindness and civility, and truly believe that diversity makes us stronger.

A culture of learning, developing and innovating is the thread that runs throughout our whole organisation. We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential.

We value staff wellbeing, with a well-established programme of support. We believe in a holistic approach spanning all aspects of living a healthy life, including physical, emotional, spiritual and financial wellbeing. We’ve even got a pool!

We are committed to supporting you and hope you want to join our team. In the meantime, find out more about living and working the beautiful historic city of Bath, learn about our extensive package of staff benefits, and read about how we’re providing healthcare fit for the future with the landmark Dyson Cancer Centre and our passion for research.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Samantha Overton or Band 7 team Job title: Senior Sister Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01225821485

For Further Information Or To Arrange An Informal Visits Please Contact The Supervisory Sister (01225 821485) Or Email The Critical Band 7 Team

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