Job summary An exciting opportunity has become available for Band 5 staff nurses to join our evolving Same Day Emergency Care Unit within Emergency Services Group.The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest acute and community Trusts in the West Midlands and opened a new Urgent and Emergency Care Centre in November 2015.
We have been rated as GOOD during our recent CQC inspection.
Are you an adult trained nurse with acute nursing experience?
We are looking for nurses who are pursuing a new challenge.
The Emergency Department is exceptionally busy and currently has circa 153,000 annual attendees.
An understanding of the importance of maintaining patient flows through the hospital is pivotal to this role.
Are you ready to embrace the new ways of working within our innovative department including the purpose built rapid assessment area and working partnerships between acute physicians and emergency consultants, Main duties of the job The Emergency Services Group encompasses the Accident and Emergency Department, Urgent Treatment Centre and Same Day Emergency Care Centre offering multiple points of access to emergency services.
We are looking for caring, compassionate nurses to work in the emergency care setting.
The individual we want would be committed to sustaining and improving our patient pathways, good clinical skills and be able to act as a professional role model, experience within emergency services or an acute medical unit would be beneficial but not essential.
This band 5 role provides a real opportunity to develop leadership skills, clinical skills and knowledge base within the Emergency Services Directorate .
About us The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve.
We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow.
We're passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.We are delighted that we have been rated as "Good" by CQC.
We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.
Job description Job responsibilities The ideal candidate for this role would have experience within emergency care or acute medical services, although not essential, with a passion for delivering safe, high standards of care.
Good communication skills are essential, along with excellent organisation and timekeeping.
Person Specification Qualifications Essential Registered Nurse with PIN / Awaiting Pin from NMC post qualification Venepuncture Competency IV Medication Administration Desirable Previous SDEC experience Emergency or acute experience Essential 6 months minimum acute care experience