Nursing Associate / Assistant Practitioner

Are you looking for a new challenge? Would you like to work as part of a friendly committed team?

An opportunity has arisen to join Trauma Unit 1 at Royal Cornwall Hospital.

You will work as part of the multi-disciplinary health care team providing planned care and delivering the highest standards of patient care within the Trauma Unit. The role is exciting and challenging, where compassion, team work, excellent communication skills, emotional resilience and initiative are paramount.

You will embrace the challenge of working as a Nursing Associate in a highly diverse environment, and have experience of working in an acute hospital environment.

As a nursing associate on the Trauma Unit you will be need to be flexible and able to adapt to meet the needs of the department day to day. This includes assisting with basic nursing care through to caring for your own caseload of patients., We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly-motivated Nursing Associate or Assistant Practitioner to join our friendly and supportive team on the Trauma Unit at Royal Cornwall Hospital.

We can offer you a diverse working environment whilst allowing you to develop your Clinical skills, knowledge and expertise giving you the opportunity to gain advanced specialised skills to care for patients with complex needs.

You will work as part of the multi-disciplinary health care team providing planned care and delivering the highest standards of patient care within the Trauma Unit. The role is exciting and challenging, where compassion, team work, excellent communication skills, emotional resilience and initiative are paramount.

Duties include:

Providing personal care, repositioning patients to maintain skin integrity and mobilising patients to support recovery for post-operative patients.

Communicate clearly, effectively and appropriately with the multidisciplinary team, patients and their family/visitors/carers

Aware of the importance of accurate documentation and contribute to reports of patients' activity and progress

Participate in discussions about patient care and ward/departmental development, including handover and team meetings.

Maintain patient confidentiality.

Maintain professional boundaries and working relationships with patients and colleagues.

You will need to have experience of working in an acute hospital environment as well as a Nursing Associate or Assistant Practitioner qualification at level 4. Experience of working with patients acutely unwell would be an advantage.

The Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust (RCHT) is the main provider of acute and specialist care services in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We serve a population of around 500,000 people - a figure that can increase significantly with

visitors during the busiest times of the year. We employ approximately 6,700 staff and have a budget of approximately £580 million.

We are a teaching hospital in partnership with the University of Exeter Medical School, University of Plymouth School of Nursing and Midwifery, and Peninsula Dental School.

The Knowledge Spa on the Royal Cornwall Hospital site is the base for medical and nursing as well as ongoing education for health professions in clinical and non-clinical roles.

Keeping at the forefront of medical advances, we are continually developing our clinical services as well as our facilities and are committed to maximising the range of specialist care that can be offered locally. Allied to this is a growing reputation for research and innovation.