Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Bank
- Hours
- Flexible working - As and when
- Job ref
- 844-6130645-C
- Employer
- Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Clatterbridge
- Town
- Wirral
- Salary
- £28,407 - £34,581 per annum/pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Bank Staff Nurse - CICC
Band 5
Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust's common purpose:
We will support you and your community to live well.
Our values:
Compassion
Supportive and caring, listening to others.
Open
Communicating openly, honestly and sharing ideas.
Trust
Trusted to deliver, feeling valued and safe.
Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust provides high quality community health and care services which are responsive to the needs of our local population. Services are delivered by our dedicated and innovative multi disciplinary professionals and supported by equally committed staff behind the scenes. We strive to continue developing and improving our services by working with and listening to our populations, partners, commissioners and staff.
WCHC offers you a great opportunity to be a part of a talented, passionate and committed team delivering excellent community based services across Cheshire and Merseyside.
We are proud to support our Armed Forces Community as a Veteran Aware NHS Trust and are pleased to share that we recently achieved Bronze Award accreditation, in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme. We support the armed forces as an employer; recognising the experiences and skills ex-military personnel have gained through their service.
Job overview
About the Community Intermediate Care Centre
The Centre is an integrated team of clinical staff and professionals including Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and Social Workers. The unit will be an integral step up/step down facility that supports the recovery and recuperation of our patients following medical and surgical illness and also provides palliative care and manages the planning of complex discharge packages.
Do you want to be a part of a team striving to make a difference in our community? Are you looking for a new challenge? Are you ready to make a difference to patient care?
Main duties of the job
To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, providing nursing and rehabilitation for in-patient beds.
In the absence of senior colleagues take charge of the unit, manage the admission of patients, provide care and discharge planning whilst contributing to the effective working of the Unit.
To work in partnership with multi-disciplinary members of the team, other professionals and agencies, to meet the health and rehabilitation needs of patients within the Unit.
The post holder will work with a range of professionals in order to ensure care is appropriate and delivered in a timely manner. The post holder will be able to demonstrate their professional skills and competence in care planning / co-ordination, medicines management, and care and treatment delivery.
This role requires excellent interpersonal and communication skills to support patients with a wide range of conditions to understand and where possible, take on self-management of their condition.
The post holder will have some responsibility for supervising less experienced or qualified staff and students on placement.
Working for our organisation
At Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust, we pride ourselves in providing the best possible care for our patients and we can only achieve this through our dedicated and committed staff. We are looking for proactive and dynamic individuals to join our multi-disciplinary team in our Community Intermediate Care Centre.
To join our multidisciplinary team you will:
- Be a registered nurse with current professional registration
- be committed to delivering a high standard of care and supporting change management
- be an excellent communicator who will innovate, inspire and promote patient safety whilst supporting the ward team.
- be an advocate for our patients, able to identify changes in need and be instrumental in planning for their current and future care.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the documents attached which detail the job description and main responsibilities for this role along with the person specification requirements.
Person specification
Qualifications and professional training
Essential criteria
- Registered General Nurse educated to degree level (or equivalent)
- Current NMC registration
- Evidence of further recent professional development
Experience and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of National Government initiatives in health and social care and how they impact on local services
- Knowledge of a broad range of Long Term Conditions experienced by patients. This will include frailty, palliative and end of life care.
Desirable criteria
- Community Nursing experience
- Experience of working in a rehabilitation unit or intermediate care setting.
Skills and attributes
Essential criteria
- Will be required to undertake all mandatory training
- Effective interpersonal skills
- Excellent communication skills written and oral
- Effective organisational skills
- Ability to articulate the evidence underpinning patients’ care plans and interventions.
- Computer Literate
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of managing people and complex situations
Personal qualities
Essential criteria
- Ability to work shift patterns over a 24 hour period as part of internal rotation
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
- Ann Bayley
- Job title
- Flexible Staffing and Recruitment Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 514 6677
- Additional information
Ann Bayley at 0151 514 6677 or [email protected]
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