Integrated Out of Hours Senior Staff Nurse

Job summary

An exciting development opportunity has arisen to work as a Band 6 Senior Staff Nurse within the Integrated Out of Hours Team. This is a permanent role.

The North and South Out of Hours service have recently integrated, providing out of hours community nursing cover across Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire.

The service operates between the hours of 4pm and 8.15am, with two shifts: evening or nights. It is a great area to work if you are particularly looking for more flexible working.

This opportunity will be of particular interest to experienced nurses with strong leadership skills and potential.

The development will focus around developing the successful candidate into being the best senior nurse that they can be. This will cover areas such as becoming an authentic leader, leading others, advanced clinical skills, resilience, understanding of the wider systems, fostering, and embedding a culture of safe, quality care; plus, much more.

Main duties of the job

The role will centre on organising and leading shifts, implementing, evaluating, triaging, and managing the care for patients with complex needs within the community setting in the North Staffordshire locality. The successful applicant will work with colleagues from the wider leadership team and have an awareness of the wider local and national agenda. You will need to be a proactive, flexible, and dynamic individual with excellent clinical and communicative skills.

Excellent communication and organisational skills are required with the ability to challenge positively. The individual must act as a role model to always embed the Trust values and behaviours.

A proactive focus is key, in which the successful candidate must take responsibility and ownership of their own actions and agreed objectives.

About us

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;

• Supporting your career development and progression
• Excellent NHS Pension scheme
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, milage paid at business rate s
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccinations every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.