Staff Nurse - Respiratory Ward 6C

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

A highly motivated registered nurse is sought to join Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s Respiratory ward. The role involves rotating from day to night duty to deliver holistic care to patients with COPD, asthma, thoracic conditions and post-pleural procedures, with emphasis on patient-centred communication and documentation.

You will support discharge planning, manage long-term conditions, and work within a forward-thinking team, ensuring safe patient flow and a positive

Qualifications

• Must be a registered nurse, ideally with prior respiratory care experience.

Responsibilities

• Deliver holistic care to patients who are acutely unwell or have chronic respiratory illness, including COPD and post-thoracic procedures.
• Involve in medication delivery, planning, implementing and evaluating patient care.
• Facilitate discharge planning and ensure smooth patient flow and timely observations.

Job description

The successful candidate will be expected to rotate from day to night duty. To provide excellent standards of nursing care to complex respiratory patients with conditions including COPD, Asthma, chest drain/pleural management for pneumothorax and pleural effusions, tracheostomies and PE'S. Supporting patients through Cancer diagnosis and managing symptoms. NIV/Bipap care. Whilst ensuring high standards of documentation and communication.

The successful candidate must be driven to develop new skills and knowledge whilst always keeping the patient at the centre of what they do. They must be a positive role model and lead by example. Applicants must possess excellent communication skills, have a flexible working approach and a willingness to work as part of a forward thinking team, as well as a strong commitment to ensuring a positive hospital experience for patients and their relatives/carers.

Main duties of the job will be to deliver holistic care, to the very acutely unwell and those with chronic respiratory illnesses who require frequent treatment, to all patients with a wide range of thoracic conditions. The successful candidate will be involved in medication delivery including intravenous fluids. Planning, implementing and evaluating care.

The successful candidate will be involved in all aspects of managing long term conditions and facilitating patients discharge and ensuring patient flow within the trust, they will need to have good organisation skills to facilitate this. Personal care delivery and ensuring patients observations are recorded in timely manner and escalated appropriately.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

We are looking for candidates who areexperienced professionallyin this exciting domain of Respiratory medicine. Ward 6C offers a supportive and learning environment which endeavours to constantly develop the service, in order that our patients can receive the highest quality and most up to date care. You must possess a caring, compassionate and positive manner and have excellent communication skills., The successful candidate must be driven to develop new skills and knowledge whilst always keeping the patient at the centre of what they do in a supportive and education-led environment. You must be a registered nurse ideally with previous Respiratory experience or a very keen interest in the speciality. You must be a positive role model, and lead by example. Applicants must possess excellent communication skills; have a flexible working approach and a willingness to work as part of a forward thinking team, as well as a strong commitment to ensuring a positive hospital experience for patients and their relatives/carers.

Applicants must also possess a caring, compassionate and positive manner.

The successful candidate will be expected to rotate from day to night duty.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women's Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.