Staff Nurse Band 5 - Cedar Ward

You will feel valued as a Staff Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

Are you a Staff Nurse looking to work with an organisation that actively promotes the health and wellbeing and development of their staff? You may be experienced, working in the private sector, or a newly Registered Nurse?

Cedar Ward is a nurse-led 17 bedded unit which specialises in rehabilitation and sub-acute care. You will be working within a diverse team, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Nurse Associates Healthcare Assistants, Rehabilitation Support Workers, Discharge Co-ordinators, Speech & Language Therapists, Advanced Clinical Practitioners and Doctors.

There are numerous opportunities to develop your skills and we will provide Continuing Professional Development to keep your clinical skills up to date.

Chippenham Hospitals offers a canteen and free on-site parking.

Plan, deliver and evaluate compassionate nursing care to meet the patients individualised needs.

Ensure the highest standards of care and safety are maintained.

Responsible for the safe custody and administration of medicines, using a range of routes (once competency achieved) within the NMC Standards for Administration of Medicines and adhering to local policy.

Promote patient involvement in care planning, Implementing and sustaining communication systems to keep patients and their relatives/families informed of treatment and progress

To ensure effective communication is achieved and maintained of sensitive information, with regard to the patient assessments and clinical details.

To act as a role model, ensuring high quality, professional standards are maintained and delivered at all times.

To appropriately assess patients, ensuring early detection of the deteriorating patient and escalating to medical team as appropriate.

Provide legible and comprehensive patient records to agreed Organisational and NMC standards and guidelines.

Participate in the assessment of mental capacity of patients, referring for deprivation of liberties as appropriate. Acting at all times in patient's best interest

Demonstrate an awareness of safeguarding concerns, escalating and reporting as necessary.

Respond appropriately to patient and carer's concerns, escalating to Ward Manager as required

To promote equality, diversion and inclusion in all aspects of care.

To support Ward Sister's / Ward Manager to ensure safer staffing numbers are met on each shift

To ensure effective resource management is maintained, demonstrating an awareness of cost improvement plans

First Level Registered Nurse

Current/live registration with the Nursing Midwifery Council

Excellent written and verbal communication

Astute interpersonal skills and is able to deal with difficult/sensitive situations

Ability to prioritise and organise own workload, delegating appropriately

Enhanced clinical competencies, including venepuncture and cannulation for example

Up to date understanding of safeguarding and mental capacity legislation

Recent experience in delivering hands on nursing care for a group of patients

Able to demonstrate effective consolidation of nursing knowledge and practice after registration and Preceptorship

Working within a multi-disciplinary team environment

Experience within a range of patient/client care groups

Evidence of continuing professional development.

Good team member, able to complement group dynamics

Adaptable to changing needs of the service

Self-motivated, compassionate

Willing to work in other areas of

Wiltshire Health and Care as and when required to do so.

Desirable

Please see the attached Job description for the full list.

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

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