Staff Nurse - Ward

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a staff nurse to join our Medicine for Older People ward here in 5A. 5A is a 36 bedded Medicine for Older People ward based on level 5 at Whiston Hospital. The care on 5A is Consultant led and delivered by an expert multidisciplinary team of Geriatricians, Nurses, Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapists, Resident Doctors and Social workers;

their aim is to provide patient centred comprehensive medical care to older people. Geriatricians and the Multidisciplinary team are concerned with all aspects of health and illness in older people and treat a wide range of general medical conditions, but also possess the specialist skills that are needed to diagnose and manage illness in patients with multiple conditions and those living with frailty.

1 x Full Time Position (37.5 Hours) + 1 x Part Time Position (30 Hours).

• Assess, plan, develop and implement programmes of care to patients, providing advice in a variety of settings.
• Carry out nursing procedures in line with current NMC standards of proficiency.
• Ensure the health, wellbeing and independence of patients and service users across healthcare settings, maintaining associated records, ensuring all patients receive safe and effective care at all times.
• Supervision of junior staff and all learners.
• Understand and demonstrate the Trust values at all times.

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9,000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites. We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care. Our Services:
Acute Care providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites;
Primary Care providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital;
Community Services providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire;
Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients; we also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.

Specialist Regional Services:
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme