Job Description
Are you a Student Nurse in Cohort 01/21 due to qualify in January 2024?
Would you like to work in one of the UK’s leading specialist hospitals, providing world class healthcare to a population of over 1 million people… Then we would like to hear from you. If you are short-listed for this role, you will be invited to attend a Recruitment Centre.
Please be advised that the assessment day will be held on 6th June 2023.
- Manage expected (and occasional unexpected) clinical events requiring high but unpredictable levels of physical effort according to patient dependency/clinical need, referring to a senior member of staff where appropriate e.g. in an unexpected event.
- Support patients, carers and others during difficult situations arising in the clinical area, e.g. imparting bad news or following an unexpected event.
- Promote and monitor adherence to Health and Safety and Trust policy designed to protect healthcare staff and service users from known hazards.
- Responsible for clinical assessment of a group of patients and management of a team, ensuring appropriate care is planned, implemented, and evaluated, involving patients and users.
- Effectively communicate information regarding clinical decisions, policy and care pathways to patients/carers and the multi-professional team including situations where difficulties in comprehension occur.
- Utilise and ensure others utilise information and IT systems to secure accurate and timely patient, workforce, and resource data.
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK.
We are extremely proud of our employees across our hospital sites, with high quality patient care at the heart of everything we do.
Boasting some of the most modern facilities in Western Europe, the Trust is renowned for being at the forefront of research and innovation as part of its blossoming reputation as a worldwide leader in healthcare.
We are proud to be recognised as a Pathway to Excellence®designated organisation – please click the link for further details about this prestigious award.Pathway To Excellence ® - University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire (uhcw.nhs.uk)
By joining our exciting journey, you will form part of a passionate, talented team and will be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. There has never been a better time to join our team.
The Trust is committed to building an organisation that makes full use of the talents, skills, experience, and different perspectives available in our diverse society. We want everyone to feel they are respected, valued, can achieve their potential and receive the most appropriate and relevant care. We will create an environment where the equality and human rights principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are promoted and are part of the organisation's core values.
Understanding our values will help you prepare for your application.
Our values guide our behaviour with each other, our patients, our partners, and the community we serve, these include.
Compassion - We treat everyone with courtesy and compassion.
Openness - We act with openness, honesty, and integrity in all we do.
Pride- We take pride in all we do and aspire to do.
Learn- We see education, research and learning as central to improvement.
Partnership-We work in partnership to deliver and improve the services we provide for our patient.
Improve - We are open to change and seek to innovate to improve what we do.
Respect - We treat everyone with respect and dignity.
We are a designated Major Trauma Centre providing Emergency and Elective care in: Cardiology, Neurosurgery, Stroke & Orthopaedics; alongside a designated cancer centre and the provision of: IVF, Maternity, Endocrine and Renal patient care.
Nursing at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust has developed strong links to Coventry University for the centre of Care excellence and our purpose-built Clinical Sciences Building offers a whole range of facilities to aid your education and training including a modern library with excellent IT facilities.
The Trust offers a range of specialties including: -
- Medicine
- Surgery
- Trauma and Orthopaedics
- Neurosciences
- Respiratory Medicine
- Cardiothoracic Surgery
- Oncology
- Haematology
- Renal Services
- Care of the Elderly
It would assist us greatly if you could indicate on your application form your preference for the any of the specialties within our NHS trust. This will enable us to match your preferences against any vacancies that are currently available. It would also help if you could indicate whether you are seeking full or part time hours. If you are successfully short-listed, you will be invited to attend a Recruitment Centre to sit a Trust Value’s Assessment paper.
Please Note - Upon submission and completion of your academic coursework you will be eligible to apply for your Nursing & Midwifery (NMC) pin number. Following this, you will be able to commence with us in the capacity of a Band 4 Pre-Registration nurse, until you are in receipt of your pin, at such time you will then progress to a Band 5 Nurse.
For further details of the job role please see attached job description.