Band 5 Staff Nurse

This Band 5 (Fixed Term) Full Time Position is an opportunity to join a high functioning Intermediate Care Unit that strives to deliver excellent patient care to all patients.

You will be working with a dynamic multidisciplinary team who offer excellent therapy goals to patients, delivering safe and effective discharge planning. You will practise safe best practice and standards at all times.

Once a week, you will be working with a geriatrician consultant who performs a ward round where every patient is reviewed to the highest standard and medical actions are discussed and performed to deliver excellent care.

You will be responsible for the delivery and reporting of any safeguarding issues that may arise whilst caring for your patients and promoting safe standards.

There is a 5-day-a-week morning board round where you will sit with the ward manager/ward matron, doctor, pharmacist, nurses, and therapy team to discuss a patient's medical and therapy progression through their goals and medical interpretation.

Main duties of the job

• Delivering best practice holistic care to your patients
• Adhering to trust policies and procedures
• Reporting safeguarding issues/concerns
• Working within a multidisciplinary team to establish and deliver excellent care
• Working in line with your NMC Code of Conduct

About us Working within CNWL, there is an abundance of professional developmental areas for your future career. The trust values are to be adhered to at all times with colleagues, patients, visitors, and families. The trust offers a zero-tolerance policy to acts of aggression/rudeness to any of their staff. The trust offers access to the Speak Up Guardian who will support you if you require someone to speak to outside of your working environment. There is a dedicated professional development team who will support you with your career progression.

Benefits

• Professional development opportunities
• Access to Speak Up Guardian
• Zero-tolerance policy to aggression/rudeness

Requirements

• Registered Nurse - Adult [NMC]
• Numeracy skills required for the safe administration of medicines
• Evidence of relevant continuous professional development (desirable)
• Newly qualified RGNs are welcome to consolidate your training and embrace a physical ward setting (essential)

Skills and Knowledge

• Able to communicate with the multidisciplinary team, update others in the team, and use handover effectively
• Able to maintain accurate, timely, concise, and legible clinical records both electronic and handwritten which adhere to CNWL policies
• Care planning: being able to assess patients, develop, implement, and evaluate a care plan
• Empowering and working in partnership
• Safeguarding and advocacy
• Understanding how the Mental Health Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards impacts on their work and the people they are working with