Bank Staff Nurse

Post: Staff Nurse - Bank

Department: Inpatient Unit

Line Manager: Lead Advanced Nurse Practitioners - IPU

Accountable to: Director of Nursing/Deputy Director of Nursing

Hours: Zero Hour contract as and when required but will include weekends, bank holidays, evenings/nights

Salary: Agenda for Change Band 5 £14.53 per hour to £17.69 per hour, depending on experience, enhancements payable for nights, weekends and bank holiday hours

Overview of Role

To ensure the highest standards of individualised care for patients with life threatening diseases including providing support to their families and carers in a safe, friendly and efficient environment.

To communicate with patients, families and carers in a sensitive and empathetic way maintaining effective communication with multi-disciplinary team members. To work under the supervision and guidance of nurses and medical teams.

Although based on our Inpatient Unit, post holders may occasionally be required to work in other teams to ensure adequate staffing levels and to gain experience of the wider hospice delivery of care (e.g., Community Setting and Hazel Centre)

Patient Care – Key Tasks

· To provide the highest standards of care to patients

· To lead on and coordinate assessment, planning and evaluation of individualised patient centred care

· Ensuring you always act in the patient’s best interests, taking personal responsibility for actions and decisions taken

· Provide a holistic approach to all care provisions provided that is both sensitive and responsive to the patients ever changing needs

· To assist in providing pain and symptom control to patients who require pain relief.

· To provide out of hours specialist advice by telephone to patients, carers and allied professionals as required, alerting them to any significant matters

· To maintain appropriate written/computer records in all areas of clinical practice.

· To liaise with medical staff to implement treatment and care, ensuring that medical instructions are carried out, monitoring and reporting effectively

· Give and receive regular reposts on the progress of patients, reporting immediately any changes in the patients’ condition to the senior nurse/medical personnel as duty as required

· To participate in the checking and administration of prescribed drugs (including controlled drugs) and other substances in accordance with Mountbatten policy

· To ensure that all equipment/supplies are safe to use and report any defective equipment/supplies to the senior nurse on duty

· To notify immediately the sister or deputy of any untoward events or problems affecting patients or other employees, where appropriate complete an accident/incident form

· To ensure compliance with Infection Control Standards, in line with Mountbatten Policy

Job Type: Permanent

Salary: £14.53-£17.69 per hour

Benefits:

• Additional leave
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee discount
• Free parking
• Health & wellbeing programme
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Sick pay

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday
• Night shift
• Weekend availability

Licence/Certification:

• NMC (required)

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 31/07/2023
Reference ID: VC148