Job summary
Employer heading
Staff Nurse
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Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.
We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year. We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.
We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.
Job overview
To work within a team ensuring all patients receive timely and appropriate care, ensuring utilisation of Allied Health Professionals support and guidance to promote a safe and timely discharge.
Maintain current knowledge to ensure compliance with NMC requirements.
Main duties of the job
Providing patient care and ensuring all activities of daily living are maintained whilst ensuring the patient receives safe and appropriate care.
Linking with all AHP's ensuring the patient receives timely and appropriate.
Ensuring the patient receives their prescribed medications at the correct time.
Participating in a research and audit completion.
Ensuring all knowledge is recorded and up to date via the Trust system.
Working for our organisation
Working with all AHP's ensuring patient care is provided safely and timely.
Participating in all research and audit for the Trust.
Participating in all Trust iniatives.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To work within a team ensuring all patients receive timely and appropriate care, ensuring utilisation of Allied Health Professionals support and guidance to promote a safe and timely discharge.
Maintain current knowledge to ensure compliance with NMC requirements.
Providing patient care and ensuring all activities of daily living are maintained whilst ensuring the patient receives safe and appropriate care.
Linking with all AHP's ensuring the patient receives timely and appropriate.
Ensuring the patient receives their prescribed medications at the correct time.
Participating in a research and audit completion.
Ensuring all knowledge is recorded and up to date via the Trust system.
Answerable to Ward Manager and Matron.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse (1st or 2nd Level)
- Willingness to undertake teaching and assessing qualification
- Willingness to undertake conversion course to Part 1 of the NMC register
- Diploma/willingness to undertake Diploma
- Teaching & assessing qualification
Desirable criteria
- Post Registration qualification*
Experience
Essential criteria
- Ability to teach peers within clinical area
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Experience of team and ward management*
Skills/Attributes
Essential criteria
- Ability to establish priorities
- Team Player & Team Leadership qualities
- Assertiveness
- Good time management
- Basic I.T. skills
- Decision maker
- Communicate at all levels
- Problem solver
- Lateral thinker
- Decision maker
- Basic Life Support
Desirable criteria
- Venepuncture & Cannulation skills
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Janet Edwards
- Job title
- Ward Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01253 957756
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