Registered Nurse - Intensive Care Unit

Job summary

If you are passionate about patient care, enthusiastic about your own learning and development and looking to join an OUTSTANDING (as rated by CQC) critical care services team then join our people here at Salisbury.

Are you a Registered Nurse looking for an exciting new challenge, or to build on critical care skills you may already have? Then this is the post for you! We are offering this opportunity to nurses who are motivated to develop their skills and knowledge through practice and a structured education programme, to deliver excellent compassionate, care to our critically unwell patients.

Our Band 5 development pathway includes

• A supernumerary period, working closely with experienced nurses with your mentor teams.
• The foundations in critical care Course.
• Progression through the National 'Critical Care Steps' Competency framework
• The Adult Critical Care Course.
• On-going continuous professional development facilitated by our practice education team

Main duties of the job

Our ICU is a general 10 bedded Critical Care Unit, which also supports the regional referral centres for burns, plastics and spinal cord injuries. We are a friendly, forward thinking team who promote personal and professional development. We have a comprehensive education programme from our Practice educators, Senior Nurses, SIM training, teaching ward rounds and have strong practice links with the Critical Care Networks. The service includes Intensive Care and High Dependency Unit (Radnor); the Critical Care Outreach Team (CCOT) and Hospital at Night Team, (H@NT).

In this role you will be responsible for patient assessment, planning of care, giving and supervising safe and compassionate care, and evaluating the effectiveness of care for level 2 and 3 patients. In addition to being a role model to junior members of the team and teaching students you will also support your senior colleagues to achieve the team's Critical Care strategy and vision.

About us

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust provides a wide range of clinical care, which includes general acute and emergency services to approximately 225,000 people across Wiltshire, Dorset and Hampshire.

Specialist regional services such as burns, plastic surgery, cleft lip and palate, genetics and rehabilitation extend to a muchwider population of more than three million people. The Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre at Salisbury District Hospital covers most of southern England, with a population of around 11 million people.