Role Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen on Exe Ward for an enthusiastic, motivated and hard-working individual to join our team as an Assistant Practitioner. As part of the nursing team your role will be driving standards clinically to ensure optimum patient safety, experience and staff satisfaction. Within this role you need to be able to demonstrate evidence of motivation, excellent communication skills and good time management. An interest in vascular surgery and other vascular procedures is useful. You need to be flexible to meet the needs of the post this includes working days, weekends and bank holidays.
Our vision is to provide, safe, high quality seamless services delivered with courtesy and respect. To achieve our vision, we expect all our staff to uphold our Trust values such as honesty, openness and integrity, fairness, inclusion and collaboration and respect and dignity.
About the Role
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More detail about the role
Exe ward is a 19 bedded vascular Ward specialising in vascular surgery and vascular procedures. We work closely with ITU, Interventional Radiology, theatre and recovery. As a Band 4 Assistant Practitioner, you will need to be efficient, well organised, with excellent communication and organisational skills. This is a fast-paced area and as an acute specialist ward we are pivotal in delivering high quality, safe harm free care to our patients. As an Assistant Practitioner you are expected to work closely with the surgical team and being able to step up to a Band 5 role when staffing is challenging.
The successful candidate will require to succeed in highly functional and challenging area. The candidate will be required to promote., teach and support the team with skilled surgical nursing care. Provide and engage with patients with specific needs to enhance the care delivered. Perform venepuncture, cannulation, complex wound care and clinical tasks as directed by the surgical team. Be able to deliver excellent care to ITU stepdown patients, EOL patients for palliation. Help facilitate safe patient discharge home, placement and community hospital. Has interest on vascular surgery and other vascular procedures. Last but not the least will continue to develop the culture to kindness and compassion.
Working Pattern: Long Days, Early, late (No night shifts as needed more on days.) Long days, (7:30-20:00) Early, (7:30-15:30) Late (12:00-20:00)
Interview Date: TBC
For further information please contact: Susie Afos, Clinical Nurse Manager on 013924502713 or email Wilfreda.afos@nhs.net
Preference will be given to staff with ‘Priority’ and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon.
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust reserves the right to close vacancy when sufficient applications have been received.
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was established in April 2022, bringing together the expertise of both the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust and Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust.
About Us
Stretching across Northern, Eastern and Mid Devon, we have a workforce of over 15,000 staff, making us the largest employer in Devon. Our core services, which we provide to more than 615,000 people, cover more than 2,000 square miles across Devon, while some of our specialist services cover the whole of the peninsula, extending our reach as far as Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
We deliver a wide range of emergency, specialist and general medical services through North Devon District Hospital and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Wonford). Alongside our two acute hospitals, we provide integrated health and social care services across a variety of settings, including community inpatient hospitals, outpatient clinics, and within people’s own homes. We also offer primary care services, a range of specialist community services, and Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARC).
Our state-of-the-art equipment, leading technologies and strong links to local universities put us at the forefront of research and innovations, enabling us to provide world-class care to our local communities.
It has never been a more exciting time to join the Royal Devon, as you will help to shape our services as we continue along our integration journey.
Benefits
Looking after you is important to us.
We strive to help our staff create a healthy work-life balance through flexible working schemes and our family friendly policies.
If you are starting out in the NHS, you’ll start with 27 days paid annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 33 days plus bank holidays.
You will benefit from access to our own comprehensive occupational health services, including counselling, onsite wellbeing activities and groups.
We will work together to maintain a culture that develops and supports you and your team.
This might include funding for a care certificate, a degree or leadership qualifications. Or it might include days off to study, engage in CPD or rotational placements to help you hone your skills. Wherever you are heading in the NHS, we will help you get there.
Salary is not the only financial benefit
You will have access to an extensive range of staff discounts on shopping, fitness and leisure options and you can spread the cost of technology and home appliance purchases from major retailers. You will also have access to other benefits including:
· National discount services such as the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts.
· Salary sacrifice options including our OFSTED rated outstanding nursery onsite at Exeter
· Car lease schemes.
· The NHS Pension scheme (one of the most generous and comprehensive in the UK).
· Cycle to work scheme
These are just a few of the benefits available – if the role is something you are interested in, we would love to hear from you.
