Bank - General Inpatient Nurse

Job overview

We are looking to recruit Band 5, registered nurses to join our expanding temporary staff bank service to support our Inpatient teams in the following areas:

Alistair Farquharson Centre, Thurrock Hospital
Brentwood Community Hospital
Mayflower Community Hospital, Billericay
Foxglove Ward, King Georges Hospital
Grays Court Ward 1&3, Dagenham Hospital
Heronwood and Galleon, Wanstead Hospital
Ainslie rehabilitation unit, Chingford

You will be involved in assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating patient care and must have recent clinical experience, ideally in a community or community hospital setting. You will need to be a reliable, enthusiastic and self-motivated individual, with excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Main duties of the job

Main duties include but are not limited to:

1. To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others workload in the day to day allocation of work.

2. To deputise when required in the team managers absence and delegate appropriately to health care assistants.

3. To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them, particularly administration of medicine and moving and handling.

4. To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.

5. To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust register.