Treatment Room Nurse in Runcorn

We are looking for a motivated and compassionate registered nurse to join our friendly community treatment room team, delivering high-quality, person-centred care across seven clinic locations in Halton. This varied and rewarding role is ideal for a nurse who is clinically confident, well organised and able to work both independently and collaboratively. You will support patients with a wide range of planned nursing needs, helping them remain well within their local community. In return, you will join a supportive and experienced team that values professional development, shared learning, patient safety and continuous improvement. The post offers an excellent opportunity to develop community nursing skills, build lasting therapeutic relationships and make a visible difference to the health and wellbeing of local people.

The post holder will assess, plan, deliver and evaluate safe, evidence-based nursing care for patients attending community treatment rooms across Halton. Main duties include:

• wound assessment and management
• compression therapy and leg ulcer care within competence
• suture and clip removal
• injections, prescribed medicines and other treatment-room procedures
• chronic disease monitoring
• health promotion and patient education
• infection prevention and control
• recognising deterioration and escalating concerns appropriately
• maintaining accurate, contemporaneous electronic records in line with NMC standards
• managing a delegated caseload and working autonomously within professional competence
• safeguarding adults and children
• contributing to clinical governance, audit, incident reporting and service improvement
• working collaboratively with GPs, specialist nurses, community teams and other agencies to coordinate care

The nurse will also support colleagues, maintain equipment and stock safely, and provide care that protects each patient's privacy, dignity and individual needs.

Flexible working will be considered for all roles. North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust (NCM) serves more than one million residents across the Halton and Warrington boroughs and the wider North West region. Bringing together community and out-of-hospital services with inpatient and elective care, we provide services at two hospital sites and more than 70 community hubs and facilities.

Our mission, vision and values are at the heart of North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust (NCM). They underpin everything we do and everything we aspire to be as an organisation.

Our mission: We will be exceptional for our patients, our communities and each other.

Our vision: We will be a great organisation providing excellent healthcare and opportunities to work and learn.

Our values:

• Kind: We are caring, supportive and respectful to everyone.
• Open: We are honest, transparent and open to new ways of working.
• Fair: We listen, value our differences and are inclusive to all.
• One team: We work well together and with our communities.

Actively supports the Treatment room team by undertaking responsibility for a delegated caseload, managing patients/clients within a defined clinical service/area, providing evidence-based care and advice. Provides a nursing assessment of patients/clients; plans, develops and/or implements and evaluates programmes of care. Provide clinical supervision to other staff, students. May be responsible for routine work allocation and checking of tasks of support staff and/or less experienced staff. Provide health promotion information, advice.

Qualifications:

• Essential: Active NMC registered adult nurse. Nursing Qualification at level 5/6 study.
• Desirable: V100/V150 nurse prescriber, Teaching and Assessing qualification.

Experience:

• Essential: Range of extended clinical skills & demonstrate clinical knowledge. Venepuncture and immunisation. Able to communicate sensitive information to patients, relatives and carers. Able to assess, plan, implement & evaluate packages of care. Good verbal & written skills.

Practical Skills:

• Essential: Male & Female catheterisation. Venepuncture and immunisation. Able to communicate sensitive information to patients, relatives and carers. Able to assess, plan, implement & evaluate packages of care. Able to develop effective interpersonal skills/relationships across the health & social care setting. Good verbal & written skills.
• Desirable: IT skills. Experience of using Electronic Patient Records. Audit and research. Supra pubic catheterisation. Tissue viability qualification. Leg Ulcer management qualification. IV Therapy Chronic disease management. Experience of working within palliative care. Management skills. Teaching & assessing skills.

Attitude and Behaviours:

• Essential: Displays care, compassion, sensitivity, and responsiveness to other people's feelings and needs. Able to work as part of a team, co-operating to work together and in conjunction with others and willing to help and assist wherever possible and appropriate, appreciating the value of diversity in the workplace. Able to develop, establish and maintain positive relationships with others both internal and external to the organisation and with patients and their carers. Able to work under pressure, dealing with peaks and troughs in workload managing unpredictable service demands. Positive and flexible attitude to dealing with change explore new ways of doing things and approaches. Able to respond to the changing needs of the patient in a proficient and timely manner. Demonstrates values consistent with those of the Trust. Ability and willingness to adopt a flexible approach to work on the occasions it may be required. Able to travel independently across the Trust.

Right to Work:

• Essential: Do you currently have the unrestricted right to work in the UK? If appointed, will you require sponsorship under a UK work visa route (now or in the future)? Please note that sponsorship is not available for all roles. Sponsorship will only be considered where the post meets the relevant UK immigration requirements and where the organisation determines that sponsorship is appropriate for the role.

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 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.

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

Employer name: North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust (BCH)

Address: Halton Independent Living Centre, Canal Offices, Collier Street, Runcorn, Cheshire, WA7 1HB, United Kingdom

Employer's website: https://northcheshireandmersey.nhs.uk/