Staff Nurse - Brindle Ward (Gastroenterology)

☞ Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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更新日: 07-05-2024

場所: Nantwich North West

カテゴリー: 健康/医療

業界: Staffing Recruiting Health Wellness Fitness Hospital & Health Care

レベル: Associate

ジョブタイプ: Internship

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仕事内容

Job Overview

When you walk onto our Brindle Ward it feels so lovely and welcoming and indeed this is the feedback our staff and patients give us all the time.

As we specialise in gastroenterology and you will learn a vast amount about bowel conditions, liver conditions, diabetes, wound care. We can teach you about enteral feeding and assist you with learning about insertion of nasogastric and ryles tubes. This list goes on but these specialities will stand you in good stead for further developments for your career.

Our Ward Manager Rachel Aspin would absolutely love you to get in touch to have an informal chat about the role, but better still would like to invite you for a virtual visit to the ward on to see what it’s like for yourself. To arrange a chat or a visit, please email rachel.aspin@lthtr.nhs.uk and she will make sure you get all the details.

Main duties of the job

Responsible for planning, delivering and evaluating the personalised health and wellbeing care needs of patients, in line with the Trust’s Values & Nursing & Midwifery Professional Framework goals example: personal hygiene and comfort, vital signs and EWS, early recognition and management of acutely ill patients, safe transportation, last offices, fluid balance monitoring, enteral feeding/ meeting nutritional needs, ECG, wound dressings, removal of sutures/clips, catheterisation, venepuncture, cannulation, blood transfusion, palliative and terminal care, care of central lines, admission and discharge, nasogastric tube insertion & care, care of epidural and IV infusion pumps, psychological and spiritual support.

Working for our organisation

You may have heard of Brindle Ward and think you may know what it’s like – well we believe the best people to describe it are our staff, so we asked them and this is what they said:
  • I have worked on Brindle Ward for 6 years and its always exciting and such great teamwork
  • Really enjoy working here as the opportunities for growth are fantastic
  • I started as a student and have just carried on my career here – now I am so so proud to be Ward Manager.

    • Brindle is a big unit – we have 30 beds and a fairly large surface area – but this adds real character to our workplace, we have two separate nurses stations which certainly helps us all achieve our 10,000 steps a day! You will also meet many staff from many of our services and will soon be friends with our dietitians, alcohol liaison team, speech and language, physio, OT, nutrition teams as we all play a role together in supporting our patients.

    Staff Nurse - Brindle Ward (Gastroenterology)

    Band 5

    Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

  • Assess, plan, implement and evaluate care to meet patients’ needs in accordance with agreed local and national standards and evidence based guidelines.
  • Support and provide patient education and health promotion.
  • Be responsible for the delivery and co-ordination of care, through appropriate professional practice, delegation and supervision of duties carried out by junior staff.
  • Proactively manage risk and maintain patient safety, conforming to health, safety and security legislation, policies, procedures and guidelines.
  • Assist in setting, monitoring and maintaining standards of care to improve the patient experience and outcome of care.
  • Communicate all relevant information to the multidisciplinary team internally and with external organisations as required, to ensure seamless care.
  • Maintain accurate and complete records of all care activities, in a timely manner, adhering to local and professional standards for documentation.
  • Act as a role model, presenting a positive image of self, team and the organisation.
  • Promote equality in care and practice by recognising, respecting and meeting the needs and choices of individuals.
  • Ensures environment of care is safe, well equipped and compliant with standards for hygiene and cleanliness.
  • To participate in education and training of junior staff.
  • Maintain and develop own professional competence and seek to extend the scope of personal knowledge and skills within scope of role and professional practice.
  • Proactively engage with Trust wide or local changes and developments in nursing practice e.g intentional rounding, alcohol screening.
  • Actively try to resolve issues and complaints at local level and then report the outcome to line manager.

    • Person specification

    Qualifications & Experience

    Essential criteria
    • Appropriate NMC registration
    • Diploma in Nursing
    • NMC recognised mentorship qualification or willingness to work towards 18 months commencement in post
    • NMC recognised mentorship qualification or willingness to work towards 18 months commencement in post


    Desirable criteria
    • Degree


    Knowledge & Experience

    Essential criteria
    • Willing to expand clinical role e.g. IV additives, venepuncture and cannulation
    • Awareness of changes within Nursing practice
    • Knowledge of clinical governance and the relevance to practice
    • Knowledge of relevant policies and procedures
    • Demonstrates competency during internship


    Desirable criteria
    • Knowledge of ethical issues
    • Evidence of clinical competence in area of speciality e.g. surgery
    • Knowledge of leadership and management
    • Research and development
    • Experience of mentorship and ability to identify learning and development needs
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    締切: 21-06-2024

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