Staff Nurse Critical Care - Band 5
Are you ambitious, motivated, and passionate about nursing? Do you want to make a real difference to every one of your patients? If so, we would love to hear from you!
Do you have broad experience working in Critical Care?, if so we have an exciting opportunity for you to join as a Band 5 Staff Nurse working clinically based here on Critical Care, the department based at Queen Alexandra Hospital has been judged Outstanding by the CQC in all domains.
Currently two very busy state of the art Critical Care Units provide 24 beds for level 2 and 3 care for a varied case mix of patients and a plan is in place to add a third Unit. The latest technology is utilised to support care in a paperless environment and our third generation of a clinical information system is about to be launched.
Care for our patients, their family and our staff are always the top priority. We always aim to respond to our patients wishes as flexibly as we can and this has led to several initiatives. If possible we take our long term patients out to the garden, we have pets visit and we have taken appropriate ventilated patients to hydrotherapy. For staff we have a very active well-being group with sessions such as mindfulness and pet visits. Excitingly we have a psychologist based within the unit and we have restorative supervision and Professional Nurse Advocates.
This responsibility is only available for an individual who can demonstrate the distinctive professional and personal skills and knowledge required. A positive attitude, outstanding communication ability, exceptional interpersonal skills, initiative, and dynamism are imperative.
Please refer to the Job description for further details:
Qualifications
Essential
- Current RN registration with NMC and any other relevant post registration qualifications
- BSc Degree in relevant field
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of recent CPD Managing resources and contributing to departmental budget
- Evidence of developing policy, guidelines and managing resources
- An awareness of research and evidence-based practice relevant to clinical area
Desirable
- Computer literate, knowledge of patient administration system
- Post registration qualification within speciality field
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- Clinically competent at Band 5.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Teaching and mentoring skills
- Team building skills
- Ability to prioritise workload, instruct and direct others
- Organisational skills and able to work as part of a team
- Able to support development of others
- Articulate and knowledgeable of current professional nursing issues
- Health promotion
- Advocacy skills
- Strong customer service skills
Desirable
- Ability to adapt to change within working situation
- Intravenous Therapy Skills
- Mentors Course
Additional Information
The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.
We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.