A registered nurse post on Keats and Conan Doyle Wards, two physical rehabilitation wards in the West Wing of Western Community Hospital, run by the Trust's rehabilitation services. The work centres on coordinating nursing care, assessing patients' needs and building rehabilitation programmes, alongside supervising junior staff and students. The wards take adults aged 18 and over at level 3, either transferred from acute wards or stepped up from community teams and the Acute Medical Unit to avoid admission. The post suits experienced or newly qualified nurses.
What the job involves
- Coordinate and deliver nursing care under a city-wide locality-based model
- Keep the ward and work area clean, safe, well maintained and efficient
- Assess patients' care needs and develop and deliver rehabilitation programmes
- Uphold patients' dignity and respect in all aspects of care
- Supervise junior staff and students on placement day to day
- Manage care for all ward patients day to day when senior colleagues are absent
- Deliver high standards of effective care to people using the service
- Support senior colleagues in leading Trust rehabilitation services
- Take an active part in service development and raising standards of care
- Apply policies and procedures to run the clinical area
- Work flexible hours across a 24-hour period as service needs require
- Support any element of the interconnected service as needs dictate, within professional competencies
What's required
Qualifications
- Registered Nurse qualification
- Evidence of continuous professional development
What's offered
- Flexible working requests discussed as part of the interview process
- Career development and training opportunities
- Collaborative working
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
