Critical Care Staff Nurse

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

NB: If you are not yet qualified, please note this post is only open to those who will qualify by March 2024

The Anaesthetics and Surgical division includes emergency and elective surgery including specialities general surgery, breast, ENT, urology, orthopaedics, and ophthalmology. This is inclusive of theatres including day-case and the Critical Care department. The division also provides clinical services departments such as out-patient departments. This makes for a vast and varied division of services with a common focus of providing safe and effective patient care.

Here at Bolton, Critical Care has amalgamated its intensive care and high dependency units and is currently a 18 bedded unit caring for both level 3 and level 2 patients. These patients have a variety of different needs.

We are looking to recruit motivated, hardworking nurses who have excellent communication skills & a passion for their role and improving patient care. When working clinically we expect you to perform with passion and drive, provide clinically excellent care, and be supportive to patients, relatives, and other MDT members.

The Trust has a dedicated international nursing recruitment programme in place; because of this we ask international nurses to please not apply for our general nursing vacancies. We regularly advertise our opportunities for international nurses to join our nurse team here in Bolton and these adverts are clearly marked as being suitable for international applicants

Main duties of the job

Previous applicants need not apply

Critical Care here at Bolton is a great place to work and as a qualified nurse you will be an important part of our Multidisciplinary Team.

As a registered nurse you will be expected to promote and lead the delivery of an excellent standard of patient centred care in a supported environment. We are keen to hear from nurses with experience in the acute or critical care setting but would also love to hear from nurses with a real passion for excellence in quality and patient-centred care.

We are fully supportive of the preceptorship programme and you will have a supernumerary period to support you in your induction, dependent on experience. To support your ongoing development, your learning and development will be aligned with national competency for critical care nurses. This will provide foundation to the commencement of a recognised transferrable critical care qualification. You will be guided and supported with many of our multidisciplinary team members including medical staff, outreach, physio, dietician etc. There will be encouragement to achieve extended clinical skills and achieve competency within these.

Both part time and full time hours are available.

Please note, interviews are held face to face and those successfully shortlisted will be expected to attend the interview in person.

About us

We offer a comprehensive preceptorship package and have a band 5 development package. Staff are supported during each of their shifts by an excellent team of nurses and each shift is led by a band 7/6 team leader to further support staff and decision making within the unit. With the help of our supportive teams and the practice based educators we can facilitate a safe and comfortable transition for new and exciting learning and development. We have designated practice educator nurses for Critical Care who support new staff and ensure all staff are up to date with competencies and skills training.

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust is an integrated provider of acute, intermediate and community health care serving the population of Bolton. This provides us with an opportunity for our services to work closely with our partners in primary care and the local authority to ensure a seamless service for our patients.

Here at Bolton our patients are at the heart of everything we do. We ensure our patients receive the highest quality of Care and are guided by our trust Values. We are proud that our Trust is a centre of excellence for maternity, neonatal and care for children, and that it has been rated as 'Good' by the Quality Care Commission (CQC). This is in recognition of the patient experience and quality of care that our staff provide to patients.

Date posted

07 March 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£28,407 to £34,581 a year per annum (pro rata)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

241-71AS-24-A

Job locations

Royal Bolton Hospital

Minerva Road

Bolton

BL4 0JR

Job description

Job responsibilities

The aims of this Trust are to improve the health of and provide the best possible care to the population in which we serve and ensure that our staff have joy and pride in their work. We are striving to recruit a workforce that reflects the communities in which we serve. We value our staff and can offer excellent opportunities for further training and development. We are keen to reflect our local population and therefore applications from all sectors of the community are welcomed.

For further information regarding the key responsibilities of this role please see the attached job description. If you have any further questions regarding this role please do not hesitate to contact us via the information below.

Please note, interviews are held face to face and those successfully shortlisted will be expected to attend the interview in person.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please note, interviews are held face to face and those successfully shortlisted will be expected to attend the interview in person.

Person Specification

Qualification

Essential

RGN / Qualify March 2024

Desirable

Critical care course
Mentorship / Teaching qualification

Experience

Essential

Evidence of recent professional development (within the last 12 month) - does not include Mandatory training
Good communication skills.
Worked within the acute hospital setting within the last 12 months

Desirable

Experience of Critical Care in a support worker role or 6 months post registration experience in a hospital setting or Student exposure to Critical Care on placement.

Skills

Essential

Attention to detail
Good communication skills.
Time management

Desirable

leadership experience

Personal ability

Essential

Team worker
Flexibility

Person Specification

Qualification

Essential

RGN / Qualify March 2024

Desirable

Critical care course
Mentorship / Teaching qualification

Experience

Essential

Evidence of recent professional development (within the last 12 month) - does not include Mandatory training
Good communication skills.
Worked within the acute hospital setting within the last 12 months

Desirable

Experience of Critical Care in a support worker role or 6 months post registration experience in a hospital setting or Student exposure to Critical Care on placement.

Skills

Essential

Attention to detail
Good communication skills.
Time management

Desirable

leadership experience

Personal ability

Essential

Team worker
Flexibility

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.