Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
Staff Nurse - Waterside Unit
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Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust is a major provider of integrated hospital and community services for people living in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area. This includes Thame (Oxfordshire), Tring (Hertfordshire) and Leighton Buzzard (Bedfordshire). We provide care to over half a million patients every year. We have over 6,000 highly trained clinical staff. This includes doctors, nurses, midwives, health visitors, therapists, and healthcare scientists.
Amersham Hospital
Amersham Hospital is one of several Community Hospitals within the Trust. We have three inpatient areas: Chartridge Ward, Waterside Unit, and Buckinghamshire Neuro Rehabilitation Unit.
Waterside Unit
Waterside Unit has exciting opportunities for Band 5 Staff Nurses to join their team. This post would be suitable for newly qualified nurses, those due to qualify in the near future, or individuals who already have post-registration experience. Where relevant, we will support you to undertake our Trust Preceptorship programme, offering you the structured support needed to transition your knowledge into everyday practice successfully.
Waterside Unit is a 21 bedded ward within the Integrated Elderly Care Division. We provide inpatient rehabilitation for older adults working closely with our therapy team until ready for discharge home with support or a placement in a Nursing or Residential Home. Our patients often have multiple health needs & chronic conditions.
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Responsibilities
- Identifying the needs for nursing care of individual patients in the context of prescribed medical care.
- Undertakes the nursing assessment of the patient, including risk assessments, e.g. Tissue viability, falls etc. and re-evaluates.
- Planning and delivering an individual programme of nursing care for each patient, incorporating objectives, and re-evaluates.
- Supervising qualified / unqualified staff, to ensure the optimum application of skills necessary to provide the care planned for each patient.
- Recording nursing care given and evaluating its outcome in relation to achievement of objectives; modifying care plans accordingly.
- Acts as a health educator throughout the patients stay.
- Responds sensitively to the needs of patients families and visitors
What We Offer
What Does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Offer You?
As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
- We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
- We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
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Why Work for Us?
- We’re committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
- As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued, and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
- Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
What Do We Stand For?
- Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
- Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
- Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: MARY ADADIAHA
- Job Title: Ward sister
- Email Address: m.adadiaha@nhs.net
- Telephone Number: 01494 734711
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