Staff Nurse - Stroke Unit

University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust; Bournemouth; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An established healthcare provider is seeking motivated staff nurses to join their supportive team in the Stroke Unit. This role offers a unique opportunity to enhance your clinical skills through a bespoke induction program and ongoing training. You will play a crucial role in delivering quality patient care, while also benefiting from a positive team spirit and a healthy work-life balance. With a commitment to diversity and inclusion, this organization values the contributions of all staff members. If you are passionate about nursing and eager to make a difference in patients' lives, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Excellent training and development opportunities

Positive team spirit

Work-life balance

Qualifications

• Active UK NMC Registration is required.
• Experience in caring for patients with acute and long-term conditions.

Responsibilities

• Provide nursing expertise and facilitate evidence-based patient care.
• Supervise and direct junior staff and provide education and training.

Skills

Patient care

Teamwork

Stress management

Clinical expertise

Communication skills

Education

NMC Registered Nurse

Advanced Diploma/Degree in Adult Health Nursing Studies

Teaching Qualification

Tools

Vital signs monitoring equipment

Basic IT skills

Job description

As University Hospitals Dorset, we are a three-site acute trust with ‘university hospital’ status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.

We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.

In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with over seven miles of sandy beaches, you’ll find inspirational opportunities to achieve your perfect work/life balance. With the New Forest and the Purbecks on our doorstep, we’re also less than three hours from London by road or train. The thriving towns of Poole, Bournemouth, and Christchurch give way to idyllic villages and unspoilt landscapes just minutes from our hospitals.

We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming and productive place to work.

We especially welcome applications from minority groups in the community who may be underrepresented in our workforce.

At UHD, our active staff network groups are the Women's Network, Black Asian Minority Ethnic Group (BAME), Pride Network, European (EU), Pro Ability Staff Network, and the Armed Forces Support Group.

As a Trust, we are proudly signed up to the Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant guaranteed interview schemes.

Job overview

Are you a staff nurse searching for your next challenge?

We are looking for motivated, enthusiastic staff nurses to join our inclusive and friendly multidisciplinary team in the Stroke Unit.

We offer a bespoke stroke induction programme and actively encourage clinical training. This role offers the successful candidate an incredible opportunity for career development and a chance to make a positive impact on the service we provide.

We will help to develop your clinical skills in a supportive environment, building on your existing knowledge to give you the confidence to progress – if you are committed and caring, join us and be a part of our quality improvement initiatives.

In return, we can offer you:

• Positive team spirit
• Excellent training and development opportunities
• A team who support one another
• Work-life balance

Deputy sister Kate Shearer said:

"I have worked on the unit for eighteen years; it has been supportive in ensuring I have the right work/home life balance to enable me to continue with my career. There is a real team spirit on the unit and great learning opportunities."

We are accepting applicants for full-time and part-time hours.

This role requires an active UK NMC Registration

Base Location: Royal Bournemouth Hospital

Interview Date: TBC

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.

Working for our organisation

Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues.

UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.

This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long-term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have about this at interview.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To provide nursing expertise, facilitate evidence-based patient care.
  To support the Trust strategy of delivering a quality healthcare service for patients and their families.
• To work within and to support the Trust objectives and the ward department philosophy and standards.
• To supervise and direct junior staff, to act as a resource to provide education and training, which may include members of the multi-disciplinary team.
• You may be required to take charge of the ward area in the absence of Ward Manager/deputies.

To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.

Person specification

Personal Attributes

• Flexible approach to the needs of the service
• Ability to recognise stress in self and manage it appropriately
• Ability to perform appraisals on team members.

Qualifications

• NMC Registered Nurse
• Advanced Diploma/Degree in Adult Health Nursing Studies
• Teaching Qualification
• Post registration courses related to the Elderly Care Directorate

Experience

• Experience of caring for patients with acute and long-term conditions
• Demonstrable clinical experience
• End of life care
• Experience of caring for Stroke Patients.

Technical skills and competencies

• Basic IT skills
• Demonstrable ability with vital signs monitoring equipment and ability to recognise the deteriorating patient
• Non-IV and IV medication administration including administration of blood products
• Calculation of drug doses for infusions requiring frequent concentration
• Venepuncture and cannulation
• ECG recording
• Specific Skills for ECD e.g. Care of Dementia Patients

Knowledge

• Ability to demonstrate fundamental nursing knowledge and practice skills in the care of the elderly
• Knowledge of the conditions relevant to speciality
• Awareness of patient experience, quality and safety agendas that support Governance Frameworks

Please note:

Staff recruited are expected to be available to work flexibly across all our Trust locations to meet service demands.

This advert may be closed early if sufficient applications are received.

COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself and our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst this vaccination is not a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated.

Internal Candidates: staff employed prior to merger who voluntarily change jobs will be appointed to UHD terms and conditions.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020, and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.