Job summary

12 Months Maternity Cover

• An exciting opportunity for a Band 5 Registered Nurse to gain endoscopy experience based at Kidderminster Treatment Centre, providing a wide range of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, and pre-assessment clinics.
• The successful candidates will join our friendly and dynamic team to deliver safe and high-quality care to patients using a patient centred approach.
• We offer excellent learning and development opportunities, with support from a Professional Development Team. Opportunities for career progression is available

Main duties of the job

• To work according to the NMC Code and relevant professional guidelines and frameworks including the Trust Values providing a holistic effective and efficient Endoscopy service to the local population.
• To participate in handling complaints in accordance with Trust policy.
• To assist in the assessment of staffing requirements and reporting problems to the appropriate manager.
• To provide high quality nursing care and participate in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of the care needs for the patient group within Endoscopy.
• To deliver compassionate person-centred care and treat patients, service users, their families and their careers with consideration, dignity and the respect you would want for yourself or your family.
• To support Endoscopy Pre-Assessment team and endoscopy services across the county as required.
• To participate in preceptorship programmes as appropriate and act as a facilitator, mentor and role model to student nurse and junior staff.
• To be responsible for developing and sustaining your own knowledge, clinical skills and professional awareness in accordance with NMC requirements and to maintain a professional portfolio with evidence of reflective practice.

About us

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Being open and honest

Ensuring people feel cared for

Showing respect to everyone

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

DBS Checks and Costs

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check (at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.