Overview
Client Name: Bolton NHS Foundation Trust
Role: Band 5 Registered Nurse
Rates: £15.18 to £33.16
Shifts: Flexible hours, with shifts available throughout the day, night and at weekends.
Benefits:
- Access to Care4Carers – our support service to help support your mental health and wellbeing and enable you to deliver outstanding care.
- Competitive pay rates
- First sight of agency nursing shifts across multiple trusts
- Next-day payroll
- Block bookings in your favourite locations
- Excellent support from your own dedicated consultant
- Revalidation support
- 24/7/365 service – we’re available when you need us
A business with a future
By joining the Bolton NHS Foundation Trust, you will be building your career on solid and stable foundations, deeply rooted in a culture and vision of excellence in research, innovation, and teaching. If you are looking for a place to work with a bright future, look no further than the Bolton NHS Foundation Trust.
General key skills
In addition to your qualifications, as a Band 5 Registered Nurse, you will have:
- quick thinking abilities
- patience and the ability to remain calm in stressful situations
- excellent attention to detail
- a methodical approach to tasks
- excellent timekeeping
- the ability to work well and under pressure
- empathy and understanding
- a flexible attitude
- a desire to learn and improve
- active listening skills
- the ability to use a computer competently
Main Duties/Responsibilities
As a Band 5 Registered Nurse with Bolton NHS Foundation Trust, you will:
- Provide constant monitoring and care for patients in a seriously ill or unstable condition.
- Actively support emergency admissions, planned admissions and post-surgery patients and their families, communicating clinical information using a variety of methods, to ensure effective understanding.
- Safely identify, prepare, check, and assemble equipment required for the relevant operating list.
- Adhere to the NMC professional Code of Conduct.
- Take blood/fit a cannula and undertake patient observations (blood pressure, temperature, pulse, respiration rate and oxygen level) as patient need dictates throughout the shift.
- Write care plans, perform assessments, and make referrals.
- Organise admissions and discharges to and from the ward.
Qualifications/Licenses/Certifications
Essential
- Be a Registered Nurse.
- At least 2 years post-graduate experience.
- 6 months recent NHS experience within the last 3 years.
- You will need to pass an enhanced background check.
Development and opportunities
If you are looking for a role within a Trust that can provide the very best opportunities for building a strong, stable career in nursing, apply today.