Staff Nurse - ITU/HDU/POCCU

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; Sefton; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking compassionate ICU nursing staff to join a skilled, supportive team. You will communicate sensitively with patients and families, participate in care planning, and work within a multi-disciplinary team across acute care sites.

Previous Critical Care experience is desirable but not essential; enhanced DBS with barred lists is required. The Trust serves a large population and provides a comprehensive learning package to support

Qualifications

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Nationally recognised Critical Care competencies.
• Enhanced DBS with barred lists is required for this post.
• Willingness to work within a multi-disciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Communicate complex information sensitively to patients and families.
• Train students and provide guidance within the ICU.
• Collaborate with the MDT for patient care.
• Maintain safe custody of drugs and follow checking procedures.
• Respond to complaints/concerns and escalate as needed.

Skills

Communication skills

Empathy and compassion

Training students

Interdisciplinary teamwork

Clinical incident reporting

Drug safety and administration

Job description

• Provides and receives complex information, communicating sensitively and confidentially information relating to patients/clients (for example, care plan discussions with patients).
• Communicates in a compassionate and empathetic manner, using persuasion and Reassurance.
• Ability to recognise barriers to communication, and ability to modify communication style as and when required.
• Ability to effectively communicate whilst providing training to students.
• Demonstrate effective communications skills with the wider MDT team.
• Maintain appropriate levels of training for clinical skills as needed within scope of practice.
• To work towards nationally recognised Critical Care competencies.
• To maintain safe custody of drugs, ensuring that checking, witnessing and administrationprocedures are compatible with statutory and trust requirements.
• In the absence of Sister/Charge Nurse effectively respond to complaints/concerns and escape as required.
• To ensure clinical incident/near misses are managed and reported and escalated in a timely manner.

If you have a caring and compassionate approach, and want to join a motivated, friendly and supportive team, we are keen to hear from you. We require staff who have a genuine interest in caring for critically ill patients as part of a multi-disciplinary team as well as having excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

We provide a comprehensive learning package supported by the nationally recognised Critical Care competencies. Previous Critical Care experience is not essential but desirable. An Enhanced DBS with barred lists for both Adults & Children is required for this post.

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites. Primary Care Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital. Community Services Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre. Specialist Regional Services We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

Achievements

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme.