Staff Nurse

EPUT provides community health, mental health and learning disability services to support more than 3.2 million people living across Bedfordshire, Essex and Suffolk. We are among the largest employers in the East of England region, with more than 10,000 staff working across more than 200 sites. EPUT was formed on 1 April 2017 following the merger of North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (NEP) and South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT).

Our Vision: To be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care.

Our Purpose: We care for people every day. What we do together, matters.

Our Values: We Care, We Empower.

Our strategic objectives:

• We will deliver safe, high quality integrated care services.
• We will enable each other to be the best that we can.
• We will work together with our partners to make our services better.
• We will help our communities to thrive.

Job overview: Avocet is a 21 bedded sub-acute elderly medicine and rehabilitation ward. Patients are admitted with a range of long-term medical conditions such as respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, and orthopaedic conditions. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to the continuous development of the ward and advancement in patient-centred care, as well as keen to progress in their knowledge and skills. We welcome applications from Nurses who are experienced, newly qualified or due to qualify. We offer dedicated career pathways and great opportunities for continuing professional development, an excellent preceptorship program for newly qualified nurses and the chance to further your career in a nurse led environment.

Main duties of the job:

• The post holder will be responsible for providing all aspects of patient care through the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of programs of care.
• The post holder will assist and is expected to supervise junior staff and be able to teach qualified and unqualified staff.
• The post holder will work effectively as a member of the multi-disciplinary team to support the planning and achievement of local service objectives.
• The post holder will support the Matron/Sister in ensuring effective and efficient day to day running of the ward maintaining safety at all times.

Working for our organisation: EPUT are looking for motivated staff who share our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including:

• Season Ticket Loans
• NHS discounts for staff
• Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
• Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
• The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
• Day One Flexible Employer

The Trust supports and actively encourages flexible working for all employees. We offer many options and you are encouraged to ask the recruiting manager what is possible for this role. If appointed, you will have the opportunity to apply for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

• To adhere to the Trust's agreed policies and procedures.
• To promote and develop equality of opportunity in accordance with the Trust's Equal Opportunities Policy.
• To protect the confidentiality of information relating to the Trust, patient and staff or other agencies.
• To provide a quality service to internal and external agencies and participate/develop clinical governance within sphere of responsibility.
• To share responsibility for abiding by Health & Safety policies and regulations and acting in accordance with the Risk Management Policy.
• To develop the assessment, development, implementation and delivery of agreed standard of nursing care.
• To provide basic, intermediate and advanced patient care.
• To ensure that all nursing records and documents are completed accurately and legibly in line with Record Keeping Policy.
• To discharge patients following the Trust's Discharge Policy.
• To assist the ward manager to ensure all staff are aware of prevention and control of infection and to ensure agreed standard for ward cleanliness by reporting any concerns to the ward manager.
• To develop innovative practices using a research-oriented approach.
• To act as an advocate for patients and protect their rights and dignity.
• To work at an advanced clinical level and be a role model for all staff.
• Manage the clinical area in the absence of more senior staff to ensure effective communication between all MDT to ensure safe management of patients.

Person specification:

• Experience in a medical ward or equivalent.
• Experience in treating long term medical conditions.
• NMC standards.

Please note - staff who are formally at risk within the organisation will be given priority in securing alternative employment.

Important Professional References: Make sure that as a part of your application you have professional references with business contract information covering your last three year employment history. We are unable to accept personal or character references.

As a newly appointed employee you are responsible for incurring the cost of your initial DBS check relevant to your post, the amount will be deducted from your first salary with the Trust.

Applications for Job Share are positively welcomed. The Trust has the right to expire vacancies prior to the closing date if they so wish. The Trust makes every attempt to contact all applicants and we strongly advise that you check the email account which is registered with NHS Jobs regularly, we would advise however due to the high number of applications we receive that if you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expect all staff to undertake this commitment. Applicants will be subject to robust safer recruitment processes.

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.

Come and work at EPUT and make a difference in people's lives.