Registered Nurse

Job summary

We are looking for Registered Nurses who are passionate about providing patient centred care and enthusiastic about supporting patients to rehabilitate, increase their independence and promote quality of life.

Snowdon Neuro-Rehabilitation Unit encourages training, collaborative working and providing high standards of patient care, so if you share these values and are hard-working, reliable and flexible please apply! We welcome applications from candidates with or without previous experience of working in this area.

Our patients have a range of acute and long term neurological conditions that have had an impact on their physical and cognitive state, we work as a team to assess, plan and provide personalised care for each individual to aid any possible recovery.

You will be responsible for maintaining the safety and wellbeing of our inpatients, through assessments, delivering personal care whilst promoting privacy and dignity and sharing information/observations with the nurse in charge. Supporting patients with their nutritional, skin, continence and mobility care as well as tailoring communication to suit the needs of the individual.

37.5 hours per week, part time will be considered for 22.5 hours and above. Hours will be worked on a shift pattern each week.

Main duties of the job

*Assess patients /clients, plan develop/implement/evaluate programmes of care and carry out nursing procedures.

*Provides direct nursing care for patient/clients to achieve best health outcomes.

*Ensures use of nursing knowledge and skills to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patients/clients/family/ health needs as well as actively promote health and wellbeing.

*Evaluate clinical outcomes and reports variance to clinical pathway, protocols, or best practice guidelines.

*Contributes to effective discharge planning and/or referral processes to health care providers and support agencies to meet identified health needs.

*Applies diagnostic reasoning and professional judgement to nursing practice issues/decisions.

*Manage care of patients/clients on a day to day basis and when required manage care of all patients/clients in the absence of senior colleagues.

*Fosters inquiry and critical thinking amongst colleagues to advance nursing practice and patient/client care to ensure the provision of positive patient/client outcomes and person-centred care.

*Accurately documents assessments of patients/client's health status, diagnosis and response to nursing and other interventions and treatments on the Trust Clinical Records System.

*Effectively manage the clinical care and clinical area through the implementation of clearly defined policies and procedures

About us

Make a difference with us

If you are looking for somewhere you can make a real difference and are passionate about keeping people safe, well and out of hospital, a career with us may be just what you're looking for. At Solent NHS Trust, we strive to make a difference to the health and wellbeing of our communities.

We are proud to be an organisation which is focused on our people and we welcome people who share our values to come and work with us.

To deliver great care that is safe, simple and easy to access

To be a caring, flexible and supportive place to work

To deliver the best value for money

Our shared values support the development of a strong working culture. They breathe life into our organisation -- guiding and inspiring all of our actions and decisions. They enable us to be better at what we do and create a great place for our staff to work, whilst ensuring we provide the highest quality of care to our patients.

In creating our values, we spent time listening to our employees and members. Based on what people told us, we created our HEART values to reflect the deep belief that we are caring organisation at the centre of our community: Honesty, Everyone counts, Accountable, Respectful, Teamwork.

We are an accredited Real Living Wage employer.

We encourage and support our staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against Covid-19.