Staff Nurse - Outpatient

Staff Nurse - Outpatients
Chichester Hospital | Nursing | Permanent contract | Part time
Competitive Salary, depending on skills and experience
15 hours per week
Shift Pattern: Day, evening hours and 6 day service

Main duties of the job

As an Outpatients Staff Nurse, you will:

• Show your passion for delivering excellent patient care
• Manage a varied and interesting caseload in Outpatients services
• Take part in a wide range of procedures and apply your clinical skills to aid recovery
• Instinctively meet the needs of patients and their families, offering comfort and reassurance
• Work with practitioners in other areas to ensure continuity in patient care
• Enjoy more time to care and get to know your patients

About us

Nuffield Health Chichester Hospital is a 30 bedded hospital within walking distance of the city centre with free onsite car parking. The hospital has two laminar flow operating theatres, the outpatient department has two minor treatment rooms, a minor procedure room and Gynae suite in the outpatient department. There is a small radiology department and CT/ MRI services are provided in a mobile unit. Inpatient physiotherapy is provided within the hospital whilst our outpatients attend the fitness and wellbeing centre at Chichester gate for their follow up physio and hydrotherapy treatments. Our main speciality is orthopaedics. We also care for patients needing treatment within the specialties of gynaecology, urology, general surgery, plastic surgery, ophthalmology, max fax, and pain. We provide outpatient services for dermatology, cardiology, neurology, and rheumatology.

Job responsibilities

As a Staff Nurse in Outpatients at our Chichester Hospital, you're registered with the appropriate governing body. You bring the qualifications and experience that are relevant to your registration, including NMC. You're also motivated to understand each case from a technical and personal viewpoint. And you hold post-registration experience.

• Show your passion for delivering excellent patient care
• Manage a varied and interesting caseload in Outpatients services
• Take part in a wide range of procedures and apply your clinical skills to aid recovery
• Instinctively meet the needs of patients and their families, offering comfort and reassurance
• Work with practitioners in other areas to ensure continuity in patient care
• Enjoy more time to care and get to know your patients

Person Specification

Qualifications

• You bring the qualifications and experience that are relevant to your registration, including NMC. You're also motivated to understand each case from a technical and personal viewpoint.

Experience

• You hold post-registration experience.

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.