Staff Nurse Lancashire Suite

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals Nhs Foundation Trust; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Part time

Job summary

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced nursing professional to join a ward-based team. The role focuses on delivering timely, safe patient care, ensuring NMC compliance, and coordinating with Allied Health Professionals to promote safe discharge.

The post emphasizes teaching and continuous professional development within a supportive team. Applicants should be registered nurses with the ability to teach and assess, and be prepared for a part-time, permanent

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with appropriate NMC registration and willingness to pursue teaching/assessing qualifications.
• Willingness to undertake conversion course and Diploma as part of professional development.
• Desirable: Post-registration qualification.

Responsibilities

• To work within a team ensuring all patients receive timely and appropriate care, ensuring utilisation of Allied Health Professionals support and guidance to promote a safe and timely discharge.
• Maintain current knowledge to ensure compliance with NMC requirements.
• Providing patient care and ensuring all activities of daily living are maintained whilst ensuring the patient receives safe and appropriate care.
• Linking with all AHP's ensuring the patient receives timely and appropriate.
• Ensuring the patient receives their prescribed medications at the correct time.
• Participating in a research and audit completion.
• Ensuring all knowledge is recorded and up to date via the Trust system.
• Answerable to Ward Manager and Matron.

Skills

Prioritisation

Team player

Team leadership

Assertiveness

Time management

Basic IT skills

Decision making

Communication

Problem solving

Lateral thinking

Basic Life Support

Education

Registered Nurse (1st/2nd Level)

Teaching & Assessing qualification

Willingness to undertake Conversion course to Part 1 of the NMC register

Diploma

Teaching & Assessing qualification (Desirable)

Tools

Venepuncture & Cannulation skills

Job description

Job summary

To work within a team ensuring all patients receive timely and appropriate care, ensuring utilisation of Allied Health Professionals support and guidance to promote a safe and timely discharge. Maintain current knowledge to ensure compliance with NMC requirements. Working with all AHP's ensuring patient care is provided safely and timely. Participating in all research and audit for the Trust. Participating in all Trust initiatives.

Main duties of the job

• Providing patient care and ensuring all activities of daily living are maintained whilst ensuring the patient receives safe and appropriate care.
• Linking with all AHP's ensuring the patient receives timely and appropriate.
• Ensuring the patient receives their prescribed medications at the correct time.
• Participating in a research and audit completion.
• Ensuring all knowledge is recorded and up to date via the Trust system.

About us

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is ideally situated just a forty five minute drive from Manchester. The Trust provides services to the 440,000 residents of Blackpool, Fylde & Wyre and North Lancashire, as well as specialist tertiary care for Cardiac and Haematology patients. As one of the United Kingdom's largest coastal resort, Blackpool has plenty to offer its residents - it's not just a good place to work; it's a great place to live. In addition to its bustling centre and historic seafront, the town is world famous for its many attractions, including the famous Blackpool Tower. Blackpool also offers a number of scenic cycling routes round our local parks and across the surrounding countryside, as well as boasting panoramic views of the coast on its picturesque Promenade. Further afield, Blackpool also benefits from less than three-hour connections via rail to Edinburgh in the north and London in the south.

Details

Closing date: 11 November 2026

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 5

Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year pro rata

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Part-time

Reference number: 382-SWC150-26

Job responsibilities

• To work within a team ensuring all patients receive timely and appropriate care, ensuring utilisation of Allied Health Professionals support and guidance to promote a safe and timely discharge.
• Maintain current knowledge to ensure compliance with NMC requirements.
• Providing patient care and ensuring all activities of daily living are maintained whilst ensuring the patient receives safe and appropriate care.
• Linking with all AHP's ensuring the patient receives timely and appropriate.
• Ensuring the patient receives their prescribed medications at the correct time.
• Participating in a research and audit completion.
• Ensuring all knowledge is recorded and up to date via the Trust system.
• Answerable to Ward Manager and Matron.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse (1st or 2nd Level)
• Willingness to undertake teaching and assessing qualification
• Willingness to undertake conversion course to Part 1 of the NMC register
• Diploma/willingness to undertake Diploma
• Teaching & assessing qualification

Desirable

• Post Registration qualification*

Experience

Essential

• Ability to teach peers within clinical area
• Evidence of continuous professional development
• Experience of team and ward management*

Skills/Attributes

Essential

• Ability to establish priorities
• Team Player & Team Leadership qualities
• Assertiveness
• Good time management
• Basic I.T. skills
• Decision maker
• Communicate at all levels
• Problem solver
• Lateral thinker
• Basic Life Support

Desirable

• Venepuncture & Cannulation skills

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab). From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name: Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Blackpool Teaching Hospitals, Whinney Heys Road, Blackpool, FY3 8NR, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.blackpoolteachinghospitals.nhs.uk/

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact: Ward Manager Maria Demegillo, [e-mail], 01253957861

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