Staff Nurse - Medical Day Unit | Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust - Ormskirk

We are seeking an enthusiastic Registered Nurse with a strong commitment to excellence in patient care and a high level of communication skills, as you act as the interface between patients and other healthcare professionals.

The Medical Day Unit has 2 treatment rooms, both with 10 chairs, working alongside clinical haematology outpatient department.

We specialise in intravenous therapies with a specific focus on haematological conditions. We work primarily to conduct day case treatments and investigation, preventing inpatient admissions and administering chemotherapy for haematological malignancies, as well as treatments for General Medicine.

We would love an experienced SACT trained nurse to join our team, or a nurse looking for a new challenge and willing to complete the necessary training.

If you are interested in developing your skills and experience, working in a dynamic, fast paced area of nursing then we would welcome your application.

1. Assess, plan develop and implement programmes of care to patients, providing advice in a variety of settings.
2. Carry out nursing procedures in line with current NMC standards of proficiency.
3. Ensure the health, wellbeing and independence of patients and service users across healthcare settings,

1. Supervision of junior staff and all learners.
2. Always understand and demonstrate the Trust values

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.

Our Services:

Acute Care

Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.

Primary Care

Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.

Community Services

We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.

Specialist Regional Services

We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

• RatedOutstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme

• Provides and receives complex information, communicating sensitively and confidentially information relating to patients/clients (for example, care plan discussions with patients).
• Communicates in a compassionate and empathetic manner, using persuasion and Reassurance
• Ability to recognise barriers to communication, and ability to modify communication style as and when required.
• Ability to effectively communicate whilst providing training to students
• Demonstrate effective communications skills with the wider MDT team
• Maintain appropriate levels of training for clinical skills as needed within scope of practice
• To maintain safe custody of drugs, ensuring that checking, witnessing and administration procedures are compatible with statutory and trust requirements
• In the absence of Sister/Charge Nurse effectively respond to complaints/concerns and escalate as required
• To ensure clinical incident/near misses are managed and reported and escalated in a timely manner
• To be part of the multidisciplinary team decision making, acting when required as the patients advocate in order to support the patient’s pathway
• Work within the organisational policy, standard operating procedures and guidelines
• To undertake risk assessments and implement risk reducing measures. To report and escalate to the Line Manager any deficiencies in the arrangements for minimizing risk
• Ensure that privacy, dignity and safety of individuals is maintained at all times
• To actively participate in the effective and efficient use of the ward/departmental resources and equipment, including stock management and care and maintenance of equipment
• Handles patient’s valuables, ensuring safe storage and transportation
• Sign off agency timesheets in order to verify and record the hours worked
• Liaise with the Roster Coordinator to ensure your personal roster is balanced within the roster period

Please see job description and person specification for further details.

Proposed Interview date: 5th November 2024

Please note this vacancy may close early if a sufficient number of applicants is reached.

This advert closes on Sunday 24 Nov 2024