10 Oct
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust
Bristol
Job description
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Senior Staff Nurse
Band 6 / Permanent / 37.5 hours per week
We have an exciting opportunity for a band 6 in our short stay ward, A413, to work in our team.
The short stay ward (A413), is a 13 bedded ward based in Bristol Royal Infirmary (BRI).
This is run collaboratively by the Division of Surgery and the Division of Medicine.
You will be caring for a mix of medical and surgical patients, both elective and emergency admissions. This ward will have rapid patient turnover and stays should be less than 72 hours.
- The successful candidate will be central to supporting the Ward Sister in ensuring all team members are fully supported through;
- Setting and maintaining clinical standards
- Completing regular audits
- Overseeing Healthroster
- Overseeing students and mentoring newly appointed staff members
- Carrying out necessary people management tasks such as appraisals and supporting attendance
Extensive post-qualifying experience is essential. This is a fast paced environment with patient centred holistic care. The varied patient group require a highly skilled team of nurses who are adaptive, responsive and committed.
- The successful candidate will be central to supporting the Ward Sister in ensuring all team members are fully supported through;
- Setting and maintaining clinical standards
- Completing regular audits
- Overseeing Healthroster
- Overseeing students and mentoring newly appointed staff members
- Carrying out necessary people management tasks such as appraisals and supporting attendance
Extensive post-qualifying experience is essential. This is a fast paced environment with patient centred holistic care of acute surgical patients, which may include upper gastro-intestinal, colorectal, maxillo-facial, ear, nose and throat (ENT), trauma and orthopaedics, thoracic .
This varied patient group require a highly skilled team of nurses who are adaptive, responsive and committed.
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country,
bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England.
UHBW has been rated by the CQC as Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond.
As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact.
Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside,
both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer.
UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them.
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