Job summary
- Main area
- Discharge To Assess
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (7 day 24 hour working shift pattern.)
- Job ref
- 362-A-24-6921446
- Employer
- Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Meadows
- Town
- Stockport
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/02/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Band 5 Staff Nurse
Band 5
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
There are lots of good reasons to choose to come and work at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust. A dynamic integrated Trust with integrity and vision. Exactly the same qualities you’ll see in yourself. Stockport NHS Foundation Trust aims to be the organisation of choice for patients and an employer of choice for staff. In order to continually improve all aspects of our patient experience, we rely upon having a highly skilled, motivated, diverse, productive and patient focused workforce.
Stockport Foundation Trust is one of four ‘specialist’ hospital sites in Greater Manchester. Being a ‘specialist’ hospital will enhance our general surgery, anaesthetics, critical care and emergency medicine for the benefit of people in Stockport, High Peak, Cheshire and across Greater Manchester.
Our values ‘We Care, We Respect, We Listen’ are at the heart of everything we do, and come from our promise: ‘Making a difference every day.’ They drive the behaviour and actions for everyone in our organisation.
In your application for this post, please describe how your experience and skills align with 'Our values-based behaviours' ( see additional documentation) and provide examples.
Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment
As well as recognising previous NHS service, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is a member of the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. If you are currently employed by Greater Manchester Local Authority, Combined Authority, GMFRS, TfGM as well as other public service organisations, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust will recognise your previous service for sickness and maternity/paternity/adoption entitlement and also for annual leave purposes (providing there has been no break in service). If you currently work for one of the above organisations and successfully apply for a post with Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, please ensure the Recruitment team are aware so that this service is reflected in your contract of employment.
Our Values:
We Care
About each other
Our patients and their families
The communities we serve
The environment
We support them and deliver on their promises
We Respect
Each other
Our patients and their families
Our partners
We are kind and helpful, and we expect the same in return
We Listen to
Each other
Our patients and their families
Our partners
We act and learn from what we hear
Job overview
Bluebell Ward - Discharge To Assess Unit is seeking hard working and dedicated Registered Nurses to join us. Our team provide an interim period of care for medically optimised patients, who no longer require acute medical treatment. The unit provides an holistic care setting which supports the ethos of care closer to home, promoting a suitable environment for the completion of assessments when discharge home from hospital is not an option.
Main duties of the job
Bluebell is a community in-patient facility, based at the The Meadows Community Hospital in Offerton, part of Stockport NHS Foundation Trust. The ward has a multi-disciplinary team; Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Social Worker input, with medical cover provided by a local GP practice.
Working for our organisation
We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.
Our mission is to make a difference every day. Our values are that we care, we respect, and we listen
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.
We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.
The salary for the role is only one part of the excellent package of benefits we offer to you:
- Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
- NHS pension scheme membership
- Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
- NHS Staff discounts
- Cycle to work scheme
- Salary finance – for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
- Stockport Credit Union– for local financial advice
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As the unit currently offers a step-down pathway from Stepping Hill Hospital, transfers take place 7 days per week, working closely with the discharge co-ordination team. Emphasis is placed on the patient and their families, ensuring they are at the centre of all decisions, respecting their knowledge and opinions and working alongside them to get the best possible outcome. The length of stay should be time limited, ideally up to 3 weeks, however, this can be longer in some cases. Robust and thorough MDT discharge planning is essential in ensuring the patient is discharged safely and in a timely manner, therefore knowledge and experience of integrated community working would be an advantage but is not essential
If you are motivated, enthusiastic and thrive on change to achieve outstanding patient centred care, then you may be the person that we are looking for. Our expectations are high for every person in our care and excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, are essential and your ability to prioritise whilst working under pressure is vital for our fast paced unit. You must be reliable and trustworthy to support the safeguarding and welfare of vulnerable adults. Compassionate and dignified care is paramount for all our care providers.
In return, the Trust provides training and development programmes offering diverse opportunities for career progression. Every person in our team is valued, respected and encouraged to achieve their full potential.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust’s policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.
If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £54.50. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary
In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £16.
Person specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Current 1st level Registration
Desirable criteria
- Teaching and Assessing Certificate
- Relevant post registration courses appropriate to the clinical area
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Computer literacy
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in clinical areas
- Experience of delivering patient care
Desirable criteria
- Experience of supervising others
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Effective time management
- Ability to work under pressure
- Resource management
- Ability to work effectively in a team
- Ability to use own initiative
- Able to problem solve
- Motivated
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with frailty and dementia
- Understanding of D2A process
- Experience of working with a MDT
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
- Jo Hutchinson
- Job title
- Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01618356292
List jobs with Stockport NHS Foundation Trust in Nursing and Midwifery