Job description

This will be an exciting and challenging opportunity for someone who works well in a team and also independently. You will be working closely with senior nurses as well as the multidisciplinary team, aiming to promote proactive recovery within the surgical patients utilising your effective nursing skills.

As a self motivated individual this opportunity will allow you to enhance your nursing skills.

Excellent communication and organisational skills are essential, as is the ability to work well in an expanding team.

We will actively encourage your personal and professional development through regular appraisal and training opportunities.

You will also requires strong communication, interpersonal and facilitation skills for this role.

This is an exciting opportunity to develop your career as a registered nurses within this speciality. We are looking for committed, caring and compassionate staff nurses to join our small specialised team on our 16 bedded mixed ward.

We take direct admissions from Head and Neck Clinics, General Practitioners and Emergency departments both within Wolverhampton and neighbouring Trusts. We provide an emergency assessment room which is available 24 hours per day for Head and Neck patients and Ophthalmology

Whether you are newly qualified, new to the specialty, or returning to the specialty, you will be supported based on your individual needs.

Support is available from the Trust Preceptorship team, senior Ward staff and an individualised developed educational programme to enable you to develop skills within the specialty.

The role requires completion of our competency development programme delivered through an in-house study day and ongoing assessment. This will allow you to enhance the care you provide for our patients and ensure the safety and quality measures of the Trust are maintained.

Our wish is for you to join our small and dedicated team, working together to enhance our patients journey.

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly

o ensure safe and effective clinical practice.

To be professionally accountable for the maintenance of standards of professional practice and behaviours as set by the Nursing & Midwifery Council, national legislation and local standard

To take personal responsibility for actions and omissions, and fully recognise personal accountability

To practise within an ethical framework based upon dignity and respect for the well-being and safety of patients and clients

To demonstrate expert and extensive knowledge in areas such as diagnostics, therapeutics, the biological, social and epidemiological sciences, and enhanced skills in areas such as consultation and clinical decision-making in a variety of set

Undertake interventional procedures/ highly specialist diagnostics with appropriate consent

Act as a change agent, developing clinically effective practice through the effective utilisation and integration of evidence based practice, setting implementing and monitoring evidence based standards of care, policies, procedures and protocols

Ensure a culture of continuous quality improvement through the use of audit, patient feedback and reflection on practice by self and other members of the team.

Promote a clean and safe environment for staff, patients and visitors by ensuring compliance with legislation, policies and protocols including health and safety, healthcare associated infection prevention, clinical governance, including risk management and critical incident reporting and root cause analysis.

Ensure a high standard of compassionate clinical care and record keeping in accordance with Nursing and Midwifery Council, national legislation and local standard

Lead effective communication with the multi-professional team regarding patient care.