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Location

Havant, Hampshire | United Kingdom

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Job description

Staff Nurse | Pre-Assessment | Bank- Flexible Working| Havant, Hampshire 

Spire Portsmouth Hospital has an exciting opportunity to join the staffing bank as a Staff Nurse in the pre-assessment department. You will be based in our Pre-Assessment unit, working alongside an experienced and dynamic team covering a wide variety of specialisms.

Spire Portsmouth Hospital offers world-class care within beautiful surroundings and is part of one of the UK’s most respected private hospital groups. With a full multidisciplinary medical team, you can get fast access to expert healthcare, from consultations and diagnosis to personalised treatments and as much aftercare as you clinically need.

Duties and responsibilities:

• You will support in assessing patient’s health and well-being across a complex and changing caseload
• Undertake electronic pre-operative assessment of patients
• Identify and escalate patients of concern against the hospital's admission criteria to senior nursing staff
• Ability to undertake a full patient health assessment and triage their pre-operative assessment requirements
• Assist in the delivery of care to meet the individuals’ health and wellbeing needs.
• Provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information
• Develop own knowledge and skills and that of others
• Promote best practice in health and safety and security
• Assist in maintaining and developing services

Who we're looking for:

• You will be a Registered Nurse with no restrictions on practice 
• Be used to working in teams with minimum supervision
• Experience of working in an acute environment
• Competence across a range of skills, supported by professional and clinical knowledge acquired through state registration
• A surgical background is desirable but we are happy to consider Nurses with an interest in developing their experience in this field
• Advanced IT skills for electronic pre-operative assessment system
• Phlebotomy, venepuncture and ECG skills desirable (or willing to be trained).
• Outstanding communication skills

Benefits

• Bank colleagues are paid weekly
• We offer competitive rates to our bank colleagues who work on a flexible basis, often to cover busy periods, sickness, or annual leave
• Unsocial Enhancements, dependent upon shift pattern worked (won’t be applicable for all)
• Access to Spire Healthcare pension
• Access to Blue Light Card discounts
• Smart spending discounts (in addition to Blue Light discounts) via ‘Spire for You’
• Wellbeing Centre access via ‘Spire for You'
• Free uniform
• Free DBS
• Full induction, including mandatory training updates
• Opportunities for further training and progression into permanent posts
• Knowledge, support and guidance through your recruitment journey from Spire’s specialist Resourcing Team
• We offer competitive rates to our bank colleagues who work on a flexible basis, often to cover busy periods, sickness or annual leave.

Our Values

We are extremely proud of our heritage in private healthcare and of our values as an organisation:

• Driving clinical excellence
• Doing the right thing
• Caring is our passion
• Keeping it simple
• Delivering on our promises
• Succeeding and celebrating together
• Our people are our difference; it's their dedication, warmth and pursuit of excellence that sets Spire Healthcare apart.

Closing date: In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications

For us, it's more than just treating patients; it's about looking after people

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