Staff Nurse - Lulworth Ward

Job summary

Do you take enormous pride in delivering safe, compassionate care, resulting in a high-quality patient experience?

Do you want to make a difference to patient care?

This is an exciting opportunity for a professional, enthusiastic, positive nurse who takes pride in their work to create a vision and collaboratively work with the multi-disciplinary team to promote and build and maintain independence for our patients. Lulworth ward is a complex care medical ward managed by advanced nurse practitioners and has a secondment opportunity/ fixed term contract for 9 months to cover maternity leave.

This role requires an active UK NMC Registration

Base Location: Poole

Interview Date: 7th September

Main duties of the job

We are looking for committed and dynamic nurses with excellent communication skills and above all a real desire and passion to work with people, getting it right for patients and their families.

Successful candidates will be able to demonstrate willingness and capability to work flexibly with a commitment to excellent team working that is absolutely essential during potentially stressful and challenging situations.

About us

UHD are investing, developing and transforming Trust services in line with the New Hospital Programme. As part of this, some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or permanently. Recruiting Managers will be happy to answer any service-specific questions at interview.

If a role or service relocates as part of a planned move, excess mileage will not be reimbursed. Travel from home to the new work base will be classed as a normal commute. Any other changes will be managed under Trust or national terms and conditions.

UHD has active networks including Women's, BAME, Pride, EU, Pro Ability, and Armed Forces. We support Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant interview schemes.

AI tools may be used, but applications must honestly reflect your own skills and experience. Integrity is key to our recruitment process.

For UHD employees, this fixed-term post will be offered as a secondment in line with the Trust's Secondment Policy. Please speak with your line manager before applying.

Job responsibilities

To understand this role in full details please see attached Job Description and Person Specification

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• NMC Registered Nurse

Technical Skills

Essential

• Demonstrable ability with vital signs monitoring equipment and ability to recognise the deteriorating patient
• Competent in non-IV and IV medication administration.

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Able to work unsupervised and on own initiative
• Able to integrate and work within the MDT

Experience

Essential

• Demonstrable clinical experience

Desirable

• Experience of working on an acute medical ward.

Knowledge

Essential

• Ability to demonstrate fundamental nursing knowledge and practice skills