Job summary
- Main area
- Critical Care
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Days and Nights 11. 5 hours shift)
- Job ref
- 361-RN-6271227
- Employer
- East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lister Hospital
- Town
- Stevenage, Hertfordshire
- Salary
- £28,407 - £34,581 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/08/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 19/08/2024
Employer heading
Registered Nurse-Critical Care
NHS AfC: Band 5
Here at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust,
Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities
Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service
Job overview
We are recruiting for a Registered Nurse who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
We have 20 critical care beds and can offer you broad experience in caring for critically ill adults in an innovative, challenging and aspirational workplace.
We are committed to advancing nursing practice and our Clinical Nurse Educator provides in-house training and support for clinical and professional development.
Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!
Main duties of the job
To manage the ventilated, haemofiltered, and cardiovascularly compromised patient initially under supervision, whilst developing professionally, utilising competency based Knowledge & Skills Framework (KSF) leading to autonomy of care when proficient, in conjunction with further development of management skills.
Support Nurse Team Leaders and Nurse team managers in the training and development of junior staff.
Demonstrate proficiency in the management of acutely unwell / deteriorating patients nursed outside the critical care setting, ie Recovery and Emergency Department.
Keep fully informed about changes in Critical Care, Outreach and update
professional knowledge to meet the requirements for Revalidation.
Plan and deliver patient care to the highest standard utilising a holistic research based model and including patient and relative involvement.
Working for our organisation
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification information pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person specification
Qualifications / Training
Essential criteria
- RGN
- Willingness to complete Diploma/ Degree in Critical Care Nursing.
Desirable criteria
- Post basic course ENB 124/ 100 / 920
- ENB 998 /City and Guilds 7307
- Evidence of continuing education
Previous Experience
Desirable criteria
- Ward experience within an acute environment
- Critical Care experience
- Critical Care shift leadership
- Mentorship training
- Awareness of resource management
Skills/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Good communication skills, both verbal and written
- Good standard of clinical care
- Able to work well in a team
- Knowledge of current developments in pre and post registration nursing
- Awareness of current issues in Nursing /NHS
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrable teaching skills
- Ability to contribute to practice changes arising from audits
- Current developments in Critical Care Nursing
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Maria Flestado-Matthews
- Job title
- Nurse Team Manager - Critical Care
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01438 285802
- Additional information
For more details or to arrange informal visit, please call Joahna or Sherbet on
01438285802 or email [email protected]; [email protected]
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