Staff Nurse - AMU

As a Band 5 Registered Nurse (RN) on the Acute Medical Unit (AMU), you will be responsible and accountable for the assessment, planning, delivery, and evaluation of nursing care. You will work as a member of the multidisciplinary team and undertake delegated tasks from the ward manager/charge nurse. Following successful completion of preceptorship, you will be required to take charge of an area for a span of duty.

The post holder will always work within the NMC's Code of Professional Conduct, assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care. You will develop clinical knowledge to care for unwell adults, ensuring safe drug administration and excellent communication skills to optimize care for unwell patients on AMU. Additionally, you will maintain a safe environment for patients, relatives, and colleagues, planning and implementing safe discharge for patients while liaising with the multidisciplinary team.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Carrying out venepuncture, cannulation, VBG, ABG, blood cultures, catheterization, and managing PEG feeding.
• Documenting all care as per NMC guidelines and ensuring all patient risk assessments are completed within the expected time frames.

The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieving fair, equitable, and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu, and home working.

The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge, and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce: black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male, and age 16-24.

Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting and processing the successful applicant's DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following the start in post. The amount of £23 (standard disclosure) or £43 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary in manageable monthly installments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment.

This organization has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people, and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organization's safeguarding children and adults' policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures. Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organization in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation. All employees (and volunteers) are expected to maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognizing the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action.

The post holder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties, and as such, 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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Minimum Requirements:

• Registered Nurse with current NMC registration
• Diploma in Nursing

Desirable criteria:

• Mentorship/teaching qualification
• Post-registration qualification in relevant specialty
• Post-registration experience and successful completion of Band 5 foundation gateway competencies
• Experience within a relevant clinical setting
• Evidence of maintaining a clinical learning environment
• Evidence of working with students
• Recent acute hospital experience (including as a student nurse)
• Knowledge of current nursing issues and clinical governance
• Demonstrates awareness of own limitations
• Ability to organize workload and delegate tasks appropriately
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Ability to support less experienced staff
• Ability to problem solve
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Basic IT skills, including email and word processing
• Supportive of colleagues
• Ability to work in changing environments
• Committed to high standards of patient care
• Exemplary personal standards of conduct and behavior
• Maintain both personal and professional development
• Willingness to be flexible and adaptable

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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