Fixed-term maternity cover for a Staff Nurse on the in-patient wards at Lings Bar Hospital, 30 hours a week for one year, with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. The work centres on people with complex, mostly physical long-term conditions and those needing rehabilitation before going home. Nurses lead complex discharge planning alongside allied health professionals and medical teams, and help train student nurses and trainee nurse associates. Fit turns on a degree-level professional qualification and NMC registration.
What the job involves
- Plan and lead patient care from admission to discharge on the in-patient wards
- Lead complex discharge planning and ongoing community care with allied health professionals and medical teams
- Provide high-level, patient-focused care for people with complex, mostly physical long-term conditions
- Admit patients from acute services and community step-up
- Provide 24/7 nursing care across the ward
- Manage patients with complex conditions and multiple pathologies using clinical knowledge and creativity
- Use professional decision making and complex care management skills
- Support student nurses and trainee nurse associates
- Develop skills across a wide range of long-term physical conditions
What’s required
Qualifications
- Professional nursing qualification (mental health, learning disabilities or general) to degree level or equivalent
Registration & licences
- Current NMC registration
Experience
- Clinical expertise satisfactory for the banding
Skills & knowledge
- Good written and oral communication
- Working as part of a team
- Diplomatic, caring and sympathetic manner
- Flexibility and handling conflict
- Assessing, intervening in and evaluating patients' nursing care
- IT skills
Checks & eligibility
- DBS check, paid by the applicant as a deduction from salary over the first two months (standard £26.40 or enhanced £54.40)
Other
- Knowledge of current legislation and clinical risk assessment
- Understanding of the 6Cs
- Acting in line with Trust values: honesty, respect, compassion and teamwork
- Commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion
Nice to have
- Continued professional development to maintain registration
- Specialist and area-specific experience
- Awareness of national and local issues affecting nursing care
- Enrolment in the DBS Update Service (£16 a year)
What’s offered
- Paid enhancements for unsocial hours (nights, weekends and bank holidays)
- Preceptorship development courses for newly qualified nurses
- Further development opportunities for experienced staff nurses
- Employee-led staff networks, including EDI, Green Champions, Freedom to Speak Up, Health and Wellbeing and Menopause
- In-house occupational health and staff counselling
- Dedicated Health and Wellbeing team
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Staff Nurse in Nottingham employer: The Methodist Church in Britain
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
