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Main area
Bank Inpatient Nurse
Grade
Band 5
Contract
Bank
Hours
Flexible working - As and When
Job ref
395-BANK209-MAY24
Employer
NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Various
Town
London and Essex
Salary
£17.69 plus HCA
Salary period
Hourly
Closing
05/05/2024 23:59

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NELFT NHS Foundation Trust logo

Bank - General Inpatient Nurse

Band 5

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Job overview

We are looking to recruit Band 5, registered nurses to join our expanding temporary staff bank service to support our Inpatient teams in the following areas:

Alistair Farquharson Centre, Thurrock Hospital
Brentwood Community Hospital
Mayflower Community Hospital, Billericay
Foxglove Ward, King Georges Hospital
Grays Court Ward 1&3, Dagenham Hospital
Heronwood and Galleon, Wanstead Hospital
Ainslie rehabilitation unit, Chingford

You will be involved in assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating patient care and must have recent clinical experience, ideally in a community or community hospital setting. You will need to be a reliable, enthusiastic and self-motivated individual, with excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Main duties of the job

Main duties include but are not limited to:

1. To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others workload in the day to day allocation of work.

2. To deputise when required in the team managers absence and delegate appropriately to health care assistants.

3. To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them, particularly administration of medicine and moving and handling.

4. To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.

5. To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust register.

 

 

Working for our organisation

Do you want to be part of an innovative, dynamic organisation that is committed to delivering the best care by the best people? We are looking to appoint people who are as passionate about high quality care as we are.

NELFT provides award winning community and mental healthcare for over 2 million people. We work to ensure our patients, their friends and family, feel confident that their health needs are well met. With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled health professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care.

We are committed to the delivering the best care for our patients. The successful candidate will share this commitment and demonstrate our Trust values.

We operate a temporary staffing service and can offer competitive hourly rates, flexibility of shifts and hours, access to the NHS pension scheme, variety of work and access to training opportunities.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The main duties of the post are outlined fully  in the attached job description.

COVID-19 Vaccination

We continue to encourage all staff to ensure that they have been double vaccinated and received their booster. We recognise that taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, our staff and their families.

Person specification

qualifications

Essential criteria
  • RGN

experience

Essential criteria
  • Relevant experience of working as part of an inpatient team

knowledge

Essential criteria
  • An awareness of NHS Plan, NSF and clinical governance priorities

skills

Essential criteria
  • Basic awareness of IT and IT skills

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Employers for CarersApprenticeships logoAge positiveDisability confident employerHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - GoldEmployers Network for Equality & InclusionCareer Confident EmployerTop Employers for Working Families 2021Top 10 Employer 2023

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Temporary Staffing Recruitment Team
Job title
Recruitment Officer
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
03003001530