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An opportunity has arisen to join our friendly team in the Alexandra Day Stay Unit.

This busy unit supports patients undergoing day case surgery and procedures. We work collaboratively with associated members of the perioperative team along with senior nursing personnel, our patient safety and quality and operations teams.

We are looking to recruit a dedicated and caring registered nurse at a band 6 level who will put the patient at the heart of their working day and strive to deliver excellence in care to our patients and their families

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We are looking for an enthusiastic and energetic band 6 surgical nurse, able to demonstrate excellent communication skills and leadership abilities. We would expect you to be able to provide support to junior team members and mentor others, manage your own workload and deputise for your line manager whilst offering support to the whole team.

As part of the team, you will be supporting the ward manager in the admission of the patients to the ward and delivering care pre and post-operatively, including enhancing patients’ recovery and speeding up the discharge process. Together with the ward manager, you will be responsible for managing patients flow and working together with other members of the team such as the surgical doctors, physiotherapists, and the specialist nurses.

This role will give you a great opportunity to develop and learn how to manage a consolidated nursing team, supporting the ward manager in the management of rosters, sickness, training and clinical auditing.

We are looking for a dynamic and flexible individual with good leadership skills who is able to deputise and support the ward manager and develop her/his colleagues. In return, you will also be supported in your development and be helped to adapt to this role.

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Our Organisation

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.

We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop’s Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.

Our Values

The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:

Patient at heart – Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts

Everyday excellence – Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both

Creative collaboration – Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care

The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.