Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust is a major provider of integrated hospital and community services for people living in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area. This includes Thame (Oxfordshire), Tring (Hertfordshire) and Leighton Buzzard (Bedfordshire). We provide care to over half a million patients every year. We have over 6,000 highly trained clinical staff. This includes doctors, nurses, midwives, health visitors, therapists, and healthcare scientists.
Ward 9 is a busy inpatient ward caring for patients who no longer meet the criteria to reside in an acute hospital bed and require ongoing assessment, rehabilitation, discharge planning, and support to achieve the best possible outcomes. We are looking for a compassionate and motivated Registered Nurse to join our dedicated multidisciplinary team. The successful candidate will deliver high-quality, patient-centred care, promote independence, coordinate care effectively, and contribute to safe and timely discharge planning whilst maintaining the highest standards of clinical practice.
Identifying the needs for nursing care of individual patients in the context of prescribed medical care.
Undertakes the nursing assessment of the patient, including risk assessments, e.g. Tissue viability, falls etc. and re-evaluates.
Planning and delivering an individual programme of nursing care for each patient, incorporating objectives, and re-evaluates.
Supervising qualified / unqualified staff, to ensure the optimum application of skills necessary to provide the care planned for each patient.
Recording nursing care given and evaluating its outcome in relation to achievement of objectives; modifying care plans accordingly.
Acts as a health educator throughout the patients stay.
Responds sensitively to the needs of patients families and visitors
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What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
Why work for us?
We’re committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued, and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
What do we stand for?
Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.
For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.
If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.
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