Staff Nurse

Job overview

There is an exciting opportunity to join one of our medical wards at County hospital. We are looking to recruit enthusiastic, motivated and dynamic nurses to join our established ward team for the following area:

General Medicine – on our wards the nurses assist in managing patients presenting with a wide range of acute and long term medical conditions and symptoms. We treat a wide spectrum of medical disorders that present acutely to one of our hospital emergency departments and acute medical units and we refer on, for specialist opinion and care as appropriate.

We are also welcoming any student nurses due to qualify this year to apply. We offer a full preceptorship program and you will be given lots of support and training to consolidate your practice.

Main duties of the job

You will be able to demonstrate:

• excellent communication skills to manage a wide range of relationships with colleagues, and patients and their families
• emotional resilience, a calm temperament and the ability to work well under pressure
• the role demands a strong sense of compassion
• excellent teamwork and the capacity to lead multidisciplinary teams
• outstanding organisational ability and effective decision-making skills
• Support staff in the delivery of quality patient focused care and work as an effective team member
• Be adaptable and flexible in order to meet the challenges and demand of your new role.

Working for our organisation

We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.

In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.

At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more information on working for the Trust, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person specification

QUALIFICATION

• RGN / RMN

• Experience in general medicine and wishing to care for patients

Experience

• Good grounded knowledge of nursing care

• Teaching and assessing interest

1. All correspondence will be sent to you via the email address you applied from. Please ensure you check your emails regularly.
2. References - please ensure you provide email addresses for all referees for the last three years of employment.
3. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from everyone regardless of ethnicity, disability, gender, age, faith or sexual orientation. Appointment will be based on merit alone.
4. Flexible working will be considered in line with Trust policies
5. New recruits are required to pay for their Disclosure and Barring Service check (and admin fee) prior to starting if the role requires a DBS check.
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University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM) has been awarded the Gold Award for proudly supporting those who serve. We actively encourage applications from the Armed Forces community.

We will communicate with you regarding your job application via email. Please be aware that we cannot guarantee the security of any emails sent/received via non encrypted format.

If you would like support completing an application form, please contact the recruitment department on 01782 675533 where one of our trained assistants will be able to help

At UHNM we are fortunate to receive a high volume of applications for many of our roles, on this occasion we would reserve the right to close any advert early, therefore please apply without delay!

If you obtained your qualifications overseas, you will be required to provide an official government translation through ECCTIS (formerly known as NARIC). Please note, this is in addition to any professional registration requirements and not a replacement for your qualifications.

If you are currently in the UK on a visa, you must have at least six months remaining on your visa at the time of application to ensure sufficient time for the recruitment and training process associated with the role. The requirement of at least six months remaining on your visa does not apply to a Skilled Worker Visa, as a new Skilled Worker Visa would be required for a new role.