Urgent Care Research Nurse(Internal Only)

Job responsibilities

• Be a registered nurse with a degree or equivalent professional qualification, ideally with a relevant post registration qualification in ICU or ED.
• Have recent and relevant experience within ED , ICU or Acute Medicine.
• Demonstrate excellent organisational and communication skills.
• Have effective time management and the ability to work with minimum supervision.
• Be able to integrate with a number of teams in order to achieve set objectives
• Be proficient with Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, Access etc)
• Be willing to work flexibly in terms of hours and duties to meet service needs (including unsocial hours / weekends where required).
• Practice and maintain your clinical skills and competence

Education/ Qualifications/ Training:

Essential

• Registered Nurse
• ENB 100 or equivalent Critical Care Course
• Evidence of Leadership, management and speciality development

Desirable

• Evidence of degree level study/working towards a degree
• Planning and Managing Clinical Trials Module
• NVQ assessor

Experience:

Essential

• Minimum 2 year post registration experience in Critical Care Research
• Minimum 1 year post Critical Care course experience in specialty area
• Experience in mentoring/ facilitation/ teaching/ assessing/ coaching
• Experience of leadership/ management and speciality development.

Desirable

• Experience of involvement in successful change management

Communication

Essential

• Excellent personal and communication skills
• Demonstrable transformational leadership ability
• Ability to facilitate and support learning in practice

Clinical Skills

Essential

• Demonstrates ability to place patient and family at centre of care
• Excellent clinical skills in speciality

Desirable

• Demonstrates ability to think laterally, creatively and innovatively to enhance patient care

Team working

Essential

• Demonstrates excellent team working
• Excellent role model
• Excellent organisational ability

Clinical Governance

Essential

• Experience of benchmarking
• Demonstrates a desire to explore new ways of delivering services

Desirable

• Experience of data collection for audit / quality monitoring
• Experience of risk assessment

Other

Essential

• Motivated and enthusiastic
• Creative, resourceful and imaginative
• Some understanding of HR Policies and Procedures
• Knowledge of COSHH procedures and Risk Management
• Good IT skills

Desirable

• European Computer Driving Licence

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).