Staff Nurse - Intensive Care Unit

Job Overview

Join us at an exciting time for the Intensive Care Unit, Royal United Hospital Bath. We have an ambitious plan for our journey to Outstanding and are looking for aspirational, committed individuals to join us, making a real difference to both our staff and patients.

Intensive Care offers an interesting, challenging and rewarding specialism with opportunities to enhance your knowledge and clinical skills, whilst providing excellent nursing care. We are looking for motivated and enthusiastic Band 5 Registered Nurses to become apart of multidisciplinary team.

Our Band 5 Pathway Includes

• A 6 week supernumerary period (including induction and orientation day)
• Progression through the Nationally recognised ‘Critical Care Steps’ Competency Framework
• A comprehensive education package including the Foundations in Critical Care Course.
• On-going continuous professional development is facilitated by a Clinical Nurse Educators.
  
  

Who are we?

We have 16 beds which are used flexibly to provide high quality patient care across two units. We are dedicated to providing care for critically ill patients from across a range of medical and surgical specialties. Our second ICU (B36) was purpose built during the COVID pandemic and provides a negative pressure environment, having sealed areas with carefully controlled ventilation that prevents contaminated air from escaping the room which maximises safety for staff and patients.

Main duties of the job

To provide specialist nursing care for patients and their families within the Intensive Care environment, in accordance with the NMC code of professional conduct and Trust policies and procedures. To provide high standards of evidence-based patient centered care and to work with the team to maintain the efficient running of the Unit, while developing skills in this area.

Due to the nature of this role, we require candidates who apply to have current right to work in the UK. We value and encourage all international applications to apply to work with our trust via our international nursing campaign. To do this please follow this link: https://www.medacs.com

Working for our organisation

At the RUH we’re proud to put people at the heart of what we do, working together as one team to make a difference for our patients, each other, and our community. No matter what your role is, we value everyone’s contribution in supporting the exceptional, person-centred care we pride ourselves on.

We are committed to creating a compassionate and inclusive environment. This can be seen in our growing community of staff networks – celebrating successes and creating opportunities to listen and learn. We value our differences, champion kindness and civility, and truly believe that diversity makes us stronger.

A culture of learning, developing and innovating is the thread that runs throughout our whole organisation. We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential.

We value staff wellbeing, with a well-established programme of support. We believe in a holistic approach spanning all aspects of living a healthy life, including physical, emotional, spiritual and financial wellbeing. We’ve even got a pool!

We are committed to supporting you and hope you want to join our team. In the meantime, find out more about living and working the beautiful historic city of Bath, learn about our extensive package of staff benefits, and read about how we’re providing healthcare fit for the future with the landmark Dyson Cancer Centre and our passion for research.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Please find attached to the vacancy a detailed person specification and job description for further information about this role.

Person specification

Essential

Essential criteria

• First Level Registration- NMC Pin Held
• Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values
• Acute Nursing Experience
  
  

desirable

Desirable criteria

• Previous ICU experience
  
  

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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.

Documents to download

• Job Description & Person Spec - Staff Nurse (PDF, 392.4KB)
• Join the RUH (PDF, 1.1MB)
  
  

Further details / informal visits contact

Name Samantha Overton or Band 7 team Job title Senior Sister Email address [email protected] Telephone number 01225821485 Additional information

For further information or to arrange an informal visits please contact the Supervisory Sister (01225 821485) or email the Critical Band 7 Team- [email protected]