Staff Nurse - Critical Care UnitNHS

Job summary

We are looking for registered nurses to join our dynamic, supportive and innovative team, working in a new state of the art Critical Care Unit!

A multi million pound project to expand to 34 beds and refurbish the existing unit was completed in 2021. This gives an improved working and patient environment along with facilities and rest areas for relatives/carers.

Lancashire Teaching Hospital Trust is the specialist regional centre for a mixture of specialities:

• Major trauma centre
• Neurosurgery
• Neurology
• Vascular surgery
• Maxillo-facial and plastics
• Upper Gastro-intestinal
• General surgery
• Renal and dialysis
• Respiratory
• Gynaecology
• Oncology and Radiotherapy

This provides us with a varied patient group requiring a diverse workforce and multiple skills.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for planning, delivering and evaluating the personalised health and well-being care needs of critically ill patients, in line with the Trust's Values & Nursing & Midwifery Professional Framework.

Qualities that make an exceptional critical care nurse are as follows; strong enough to get through tough situations but have a caring heart, able to keep calm under pressure, organised, communicate effectively within a team and able to interact with patient families that are often distraught.

If you have these qualities and constant change is something you strive for then a career in critical care is right for you. We welcome applications from experienced and newly qualified nurses (within 2 months of qualifying).

Job description

Critical care will give you the opportunity to broaden your knowledge and skills and develop your career pathway. We pride ourselves on delivering excellent care with compassion within an environment that is challenging, yet immensely rewarding. We are a friendly unit that offers a flexible and comprehensive induction. All staff are provided with supernumerary time this is flexible to be extended depending on previous experience.

Duties will include, but not be limited to:

• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate care to meet patients needs in accordance with agreed local and national standards and evidence based guidelines
• Support and provide patient education and health promotion
• Be responsible for the delivery and co-ordination of care, through appropriate professional practice, delegation and supervision of duties carried out by junior staff
• Proactively manage risk and maintain patient safety, conforming to health, safety and security legislation, policies, procedures and guidelines.
• Assist in setting, monitoring and maintaining standards of care to improve the patient experience and outcome of care
• Communicate all relevant information to the multidisciplinary team internally and with external organisations as required, to ensure seamless care
• Maintain accurate and complete records of all care activities, in a timely manner, adhering to local and professional standards for documentation
• Act as a role model, presenting a positive image of self, team and the organisation
• Promote equality in care and practice by recognising, respecting and meeting the needs and choices of individuals
• Ensures environment of care is safe, well equipped and compliant with standards for hygiene and cleanliness
• To participate in education and training of junior staff.
• Maintain and develop own professional competence and seek to extend the scope of personal knowledge and skills within scope of role and professional practice
• Proactively engage with Trust wide or local changes and developments in nursing practice e.g intentional rounding, alcohol screening
• Actively try to resolve issues and complaints at local level and then report the outcome to line manager

About us

We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.

Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.

You'll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you'd never have done. You'll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.

You'll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.