Job overview

Are you a Nurse who can work in a fast-paced environment due to our high patient turnover, able to work for flexible shift patterns and with good communication skills & clinical judgement.

We have a wonderful opportunity to work on Medical short stay ward in Basildon  Hospital.

Medical short stay ward provides care to all patients at the point of discharge.

Main duties of the job

Your role will be to give and receive patient centered handovers, assessing, developing and implementing patient care plan and evaluating care given, ensuring all documentation is completed accurately.

You will ensure all drug administration is in accordance with legal and Trust directorate policies and procedures, assisting with safe custody, storage and control of all drugs at ward level and to ensure the discharge planning process starts on admission, to prevent delays and make good utilisation of ward beds.

Your role involves assisting and supervising other members of the nursing team as appropriate ensuring that all staff work to and achieve an acceptable safe standard and quality of care, assisting on the monitoring of all ward staff as required and facilitate and supervise more junior staff in maintaining patient care, allocating staff according to patient dependency taking all steps possible to safeguard the health, welfare and safety of all staff and patients

Your role will involve receiving from other wards through out the hospital ensuring a safe and seamless discharge is facilitated back to their place of residence.

Working for our organisation

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.
 
We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust