Job overview

To provide high quality nursing care and participate in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of the care needs for the patient group.

To deliver compassionate person-centred care, and treat patients, service users, their families and their carers with consideration, dignity and the respect you would want for yourself or your family.

To provide relevant forms of care with minimal supervision and participate in the supervision and teaching and assessment of unregistered or junior staff and students. 

To play an active part in the continuing development of the ward or department and contribute to the maintenance of an environment conducive to the delivery of high standards of patient care, by promoting good communication and relationships between staff, patients, relatives and visitors.

Main duties of the job

Will you join us on this journey? Here’s more about the role and what we are looking for.

 Ward A6 : 27 Beds – New Cross Hospital

A6 provides outstanding  care in the Trauma and Orthopaedic directorate. We are committed to providing exceptional standards of care that meets the Best Practice Tariff for femopral fractures and have an excellent nursing team of Specialist nurses and ANPs that provide supervision and support to our nursing teams. We are looking for dedicated, committed, caring and compassionate qualified or about to be qualified nurse to join our dedicated multi-disciplinary team. The Trauma & Orthopaedic team offers a full range of specialist services in order to facilitate a timely, safe and effective patient’s journey throughout the health care system. Successful candidates will join our friendly team and will be offered local development programmes tailored to suit the individual which will provide you with support and guidance, regular staff engagement, feedback sessions and a supportive team ethos. We are looking for a dynamic individual who welcomes challenge and works well under pressure in our fast-paced environment. A6 has a new and inspiring set of senior nurses along with a dedicated Practice Education Facilitator to aid in educating new members of this dynamic team.

Working for our organisation

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve.  We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.
We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.
The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.