Band 5 Community Nurse - Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom - Cambridge University Hospitals

Description

Employer Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Rosie Hospital Town Cambridge Salary £28,407 - £34,581 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 19/05/2024 23:59

As a Band 5 nurse, you will be responsible for competently providing safe and effective care to children, whilst in hospital with various Haematological and Oncological conditions.

You will need to be able to assess their care needs, as well as plan, implement and evaluate care given.

Furthermore, you will also participate in the supervision and teaching of unqualified and qualified staff.

As a band 5 you will also develop your own skills in the safe administration of medication via various routes, including the administration of chemotherapy as a senior band 5 nurse, alongside taking charge of the ward.

You will be responsible for competently providing safe and effective care to children requiring hospitalisation, with minimal supervision by a more experienced registered nurse.

Assess care needs, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of care. To participate in the supervision and teaching of unqualified and qualified staff, including basic and/or post basic students.
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the country. It comprises Addenbrooke's Hospital and the Rosie Hospital. We provide accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge and regional and national specialist services.

You will work on a vibrant hospital campus with a friendly community feel; we have excellent facilities to practise your skills and abilities to support your career pathway and development.

Our values of Together – Safe, Kind, Excellent support the delivery of outstanding care. We have a fully electronic patient record system that is improving health-care quality; Why choose Cambridge University Hospitals?
Our values and reputation for outstanding care
Career and development opportunities
Lovely location and quality of life
Excellent schools/colleges and transport links (road, rail and air)

We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse, day nurseries and access to a great transport system with easy access to airports and rail travel.

A welcome subsidy of £1000 is available to all Band 5 and Band 6 Nurses, Midwives, ODPs and Radiographers and Band 5 Orthoptists taking up substantive employment with the Trust.

First level registration RSCN/RN (child) (part 8 or 15)
Basic Level Child protection training
Advanced level child protection training
Evidence of continuing professional development
Experienceof delivering evidenced based nursing care without supervision, to children in an acute hospital setting
Evidence of experience in a high dependency or critical care areas
Evidence of up to date paediatric nursing skills and knowledge
Current knowledge of research developments in paediatric nursing
Competent to care for children and their families in a safe an effective manner without direct supervision
Advocate of paediatric nursing
Evidence of participation in research and audit projects
Competent or working towards skills of being chemo competencies

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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