Staff Nurse - Band 5

Job summary

We have a great opportunity for a registered nurse to join our prestigious team in Gynaecology Outpatient department at Pilgrim Hospital.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated individual to join our fantastic team, who will in turn ensure that you are supported in a friendly and progressive environment.

The Gynaecology outpatient department perform a variety of standard and advanced procedures for example flexible Hysteroscopy, Truclear and Colposcopy.

The outpatient department is presently open between 08 : 00 and 18 : 00, 5 Monday to Friday, however do do occasionally run weekend clinics if the clinical need is required.

We operate our services across 3 sites, and there may be occasional need to travel between sites. Our aim is to provide the very highest standards of care to patients and relatives a like, ensuring privacy and dignity is maintained at all times.

Main duties of the job

Reporting to the Gynaecology Outpatient Sister, the successful candidate will be responsible for assisting in all general Gynaecology clinics and specialist procedure clinics, acting as the patients' advocate, ensuring privacy and dignity is maintained throughout.

They should be able to demonstrate good leadership skills, be adaptable to a changing environment and possess good written and verbal communication skills.

There will be a need to work flexibly to meet the needs of the trust wide service, a commitment to personal / professional development is required and a teaching / mentorship certificate would be desirable.

About us

Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people.

We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £643 million (20 / 21) and we employ nearly 8,500 people.

Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement - "Outstanding Care Personally Delivered" - stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.

We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.

Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from 'Requires Improvement' to 'Good'. Our rating for caring remained as 'Good'.

This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further details regarding the job role please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Currently live on NMC register
• Degree level nursing or equivalent

Desirable

Nursing mentor live on NMC register

Previous Experience

Essential

Demonstrates the ability to implement and sustain high levels of individualised, evidence based, clinically effective care

Desirable

• Successful Completion of preceptorship
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Evidence of particular : knowledge, skills aptitudes

Essential

• Excellent written and communication skills
• Understands and can demonstrate good working practices within the safeguarding agenda.
• Ability to manage difficult or complex situations and to work under pressure.
• Ability to manage and prioritise workload.
• Good IT skills
• Awareness and Knowledge of the dignity in care agenda.
• Ability to evidence / demonstrate key values and behaviours in line with the Trust framework : ?Patient Centred ?Safety ?

Compassion ?Respect ?Excellence

Desirable

• Commitment to ongoing personal and professional development.
• A willingness to act as a mentor for students.

Specific requirements

Essential

• Flexible approach to work
• Ability to work using own initiative.
• Team player
• Ability to travel to other healthcare settings.
7 days ago