Band 5 Staff Nurse - Ophthalmology Outpatients in London

At the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, we put our patients at the heart of every element of health and care that we provide. The Trust works together as a community to deliver its vision which is "Working together to provide outstanding care for our community".

Royal Berkshire Hospital are pleased to announce that following our CQC inspection we have been rated Good with inspectors reporting that we have made significant improvements. The Trust's overall rating has also improved to good.

We value candidates who bring their unique personalities, skills, and experiences to the Trust. When completing your application, we encourage you to highlight your individual achievements and strengths, showing us how they align with the requirements outlined in the job description and person specification.

Amazing things happen at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust; delivered by amazing people so why don’t you come and join us. We offer a range of learning and development for all employees may you be clinical or non-clinical.

We have a vacancy for a full-time Band 5 Staff Nurse position in our Ophthalmology Outpatients team. The role includes rotation across a variety of areas - these include Eye casualty, Clinic cover, AMD. This role consists of providing high quality care, undertaking patient assessments and assisting/supporting patients attending our outpatient services. You will also be required to provide cross-county cover to our satellite site at West Berkshire Community Hospital in Thatcham.

• Communicate effectively and respectfully with patients, their relatives/visitors, ward/team leaders and all members of the multi-professional team utilising a wide range of well-developed communication methods.
• Support and coordinate in the delivery of patient care, assessments and documentation of patient care.
• Support and run allocated clinic workload demonstrating effective time management and prioritisation of patient needs.
• Recognising the importance of supporting colleagues and junior staff.
• Additional roles for the department would include triage in eye casualty, including relevant patient assessments, history taking and documentation of relevant findings such as vision and IOP.
• Assisting our AMD service and injection service in the treatment room.
• Extended roles e.g. stock ordering, floorwalker and cleaning/stocking of the clinic rooms.
• Cross-county cover and travel to satellite sites including West Berkshire Community Hospital.

Reading sits on the river Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford and Southampton. With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work and play and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.

The CQC rated the care provided by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as Good.

• Compassionate
• Aspirational
• Resourceful
• Excellent

The post holder will provide high quality fundamental care to patients in a caring, compassionate and sensitive manner:

• Acting always in the patients' best interests.
• Protecting and maintaining the patients' privacy and dignity at all times.
• Responsible for undertaking and recording a comprehensive nursing assessment and planning, delivering and evaluating high standards of evidence-based nursing care to a diverse group of patients.
• Expected to deliver care without direct supervision and is accountable for the care delivered and any omissions of care.
• Expected to teach and supervise more junior staff, students and the non-registered nursing workforce.
• Accountable for care or any omissions of care that he/she delegates to others.
• Expected to act as role model, delivering care with empathy and compassion as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Actively involved in providing supervision and guidance to junior/less-experienced staff.

• Registered Nurse – part 1, Current NMC registration
• Evidence of recent continuous professional development
• Desirable Criteria – Educated to degree level or working towards – able to demonstrate academic interest
• Essential criteria: Experience (through placement or employment) of working in an acute clinical environment
• Desirable criteria: Experience in specialty may be an advantage

• Flexible working opportunities and a strong emphasis on your work, life balance
• Annual leave – 27 days for new starters