B5 Staff Nurse - Cardiology, Renal. Liver and Cardiac Surgery

The closing date is 31st Mar 2023

Job summary

Our team have told us what they need from their employer and we've listened. If you are looking for hours to fit around your family, we can tailor our offering to you. This could be working school hours, weekends only, condensed hours or maybe it's just keeping your interest in nursing by offering one shift a week. All we ask for is that you provide the very best care to our patients and work with our teams to ensure patient quality and safe care is delivered

We are hiring across specialities across our sites in Renal, cardiology, Liver and Cardiac/Thoracic Surgery. We have variety of Band 5 nurse jobs. The posts are available across our clinics; wards and outpatient areas

The unique and award winning UHB School of Nursing, Allied Health Professionals and Midwifery wants you to Grow, Belong and Contribute within the community of UHB. The School will enable you to shine and develop your career with the support from expert quality education teams with a focus on wellbeing, leadership and personalised development that may include a range of internal education programmes, and external courses to support your journey all the way to clinical excellence, research, masters and PhD's. The School works in close partnership with HEI's across Birmingham and the UK to provide our workforce with optimal access to accredited health care courses and practices

Main duties, tasks & skills required

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital cardiology department includes: Coronary Care Unit, Cardiac Catheter Labs and Ward 304. Cardiac Services at QE are a major regional centre for the diagnosis and treatment of complex acute and chronic cardiac conditions. It is also major centre for heart and lung transplantation and the provision of a 24 hour Primary PCI service. Cardiac inpatients services consists of a 36 bedded cardiology ward, a 36 bedded cardiac surgical ward and a 12 bedded level 2 Coronary Care Unit. There are also 4 purpose built Cath Labs adjacent to the Coronary Care Unit, where complex and pioneering diagnostic and interventional procedures are undertaken. Cardiac Services also offers highly specialised cardiac services for a broad range of cardiac conditions, such as Adult Congenital Heart Disease and Genetic and Inherited Cardiac Conditions.

The HGS hospitals Cardiology department currently spans three hospital sites, Birmingham Heartlands, Solihull and Good Hope Hospitals. As a centre of excellence for cardiac care we boast a national reputation for the provision of high quality, effective and a patient focussed approach towards nursing care. We have a full range of modern cardiology services. We provide 24hour PPCI service, Diagnostic angiography, PPM and complex devices. As part of the Cardiac Cath Lab team you will be expected to work across all three sites and participate in weekend / overnight on call as necessary at BHH.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

Job description

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description* 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Adult Nurse on the NMC Register

Evidence and ability to revalidate as required by the NMC

Experience

Essential

Previous / recent experience or working in an acute secondary NHS care setting can include student placements within the last 12 months

Evidence of achievements and career development in current post and of on-going professional development/ competence

Experience of working on own and in a team in a health care environment delegating to others within a team / providing supervision to others

Willingness to become a practice supervisor / assessor to or meets Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) standards for student supervision and assessment

Understanding and knowledge of the NMC code of conduct

Understanding of preceptorship and work based learning and assimilation of skills and knowledge

Awareness of current relevant NHS policy context

Understanding / experience of the principles of safeguarding and Mental Capacity

Awareness of health and safety issues

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

For help with your application, contact: 

Gemma Wilkinson 

gemma.wilkinson@uhb.nhs.uk 

01213716563 

Pay scheme

Agenda for Change 

Band

Band 5 

Salary

£33706.00  to £40588.00 Yearly 

Contract

Permanent 

Working pattern

Full-Time, Flexible Working 

Reference number

304-1068848PM1 

Job locations

Trustwide 
Mindelsohn Way 
Birmingham 
West Midlands 
B15 2TH 

Attachments

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