Band 5 Staff Nurse - Main Outpatients

We are looking for a full time Band 5 Staff Nurse to work within our Outpatient Department at Solihull Hospital to join our team.

We cover a range of clinics including ENT, Cardiology, Respiratory, Breast, and General Surgery, Plastics, Vascular and more! You will be working with a team of Nurses and Healthcare Assistants as well as Consultants, Doctors, Specialist Nurses, Educators, Radiographers, Audiologists etc.

Usual hours of work would be between 7:30 -- 18:30 Monday to Friday with occasional weekend cover needed.

Occasional cross site cover may be needed from time to time., Your role would include the set up and shut down of clinic areas, ensuring patients are in the right area for their appointment, chaperoning, assisting with small procedures, dressings and other general nursing tasks.

Our nurses oversee the running of the department and take on link nurse roles such as sepsis, IPC, Safeguarding. Nurses can learn to do vascular dressings, assist with breast biopsies and assisting with ENT investigations.

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.