Staff Nurse – Tracheostomy and Neurorehabilitation
Reference: SN/ASHFORD/0
Pay Rate: £42,919.50 per annum + £5000 Welcome Bonus
We’re recruiting a Staff Nurse on behalf of one of the UK’s largest independent providers in neuro and mental healthcare, in Ashford, Kent! The service is a Brain Injury Rehabilitation and Neurological Centre that looks after adults with a brain injury or other neurological condition. Our clients are committed to helping every person they support feel safe, happy, empowered enabling them to live the best life possible.
What to look forward to:
- 25 days plus bank holidays
- An extra day off for your birthday
- £5000 Welcome Bonus
- Paid NMC renewal
- A Learning Hub where you can benefit from a wide range of e learning and face to face training and development opportunities
- A Reward App giving discounts and savings on your weekly shop
- Free 24 hour confidential Employee Assistance Programme Helpline & App to support with legal, health, wellbeing, relationship and consumer advice
- A Nest Personal Pension account
- Access to join a Medicash Health Plan for you and your family to save money on everyday health essentials
- Monthly, quarterly and annual awards programmes, recognising those going above and beyond in their role
- Enhanced Sick & Maternity Pay benefits
- Refer a Friend Scheme and earn yourself up to £1500 for Nurses, Therapists & Doctors, £500 all other roles, by recommending someone you know
- ……and, of course, the support and guidance of the qualified clinical and business leadership teams so that you can really develop your career with the group
What you’ll be working:
- Our client is flexible, so you’ll work a total 37.5 hours per week, on a rota basis.
What you’ll be doing as a Staff Nurse:
- Acting as Primary Nurse, taking overall responsibility for the nursing input residents receive, through nursing assessments and care planning.
- Contributing towards MDT working, risk assessment management and a programme of on-going clinical improvement.
- Providing written nursing reports for a range of statutory and clinical review processes.
- Work according to the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and relevant professional guidelines as a named nurse or key worker for a defined group of patients.
- Work and act as a key member of the team, supporting each patient with achieving their planned outcomes.
- To ensure a comprehensive assessment is completed for the patients/residents/clients to ensure a comprehensive person-centered assessment is completed for their pathway and care plan.
- Take charge of a designated clinical area.
- Ensure all clinical documentation is of a high standard and patient notes are maintained and filed in the appropriate way.
- Provide a highly specialised range of clinical interventions and knowledge of evidence based models of practice relevant to the patients’/residents’ needs.
- Working autonomously with confidence and competence to provide a highly specialised and safe service to the patient.
- Adopt a flexible approach to hours of duty, in order to meet the needs of the service over a 24 hour period.
What you’ll have:
- A current NMC Pin registration
- A legal right to work in the UK
- Up to date experience/knowledge of Tracheostomy care essential
- Experience of working within a neurorehabilitation setting
Our client wants to ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable facilities to participate in job applications or interviews to perform essential job functions. To support this, they are a Disability Confident committed employer.
If this sounds like the role for you, apply to be a Staff Nurse in Ashford, Kent today!
*£5,000 Welcome Bonus (£2,000 upon starting and a further £3,000 on completion of probation, terms apply)
