Staff Nurse - Swift Ward

at  Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

FIXED TERM: BAND 5 - FULLTIME 37.5 HOURS PER WEEK

Swift is the planned surgical care ward, based at Epsom Hospital, caring for patients undergoing a wide variety of planned surgical operations and we are looking for Band 5 staff nurses to join the team to cover maternity.
We have a high turnover of general surgical patients admitted through our elective pathway and an exciting opportunity has arisen to develop an enhanced care bay for our surgical patients, within Swift Ward, working closely with our colleagues in critical care.
Swift Ward has developed close working relationships with the Day Case Unit, Theatres and the high Dependency Unit to deliver high standards of care.
If providing excellent nursing care and getting the basics right are important to you, this could be the ideal role for you.
We would love to hear from you to discuss this exciting opportunity further.

DESIRABLE CRITERIA

• Creative and lateral thinker.
  Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
  References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
  Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
  Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
  DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

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APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

MAIN DUTIES OF THE JOB

The expectations within this job description will be met through hands on clinical practice, education, training and research. This is to ensure that high quality nursing care is delivered within the designated clinical area.
The post holder will support the standards of clinical practice, in conjunction with the multidisciplinary team.

DUTIES OF THE POST

The post of a qualified nurse is characterised by six principle role functions:

• Clinical Practice
• Advanced Clinical Skills
• Professional leadership and management
• Education training and development
• Evaluation of care and research
• Human Resources