Staff Nurse Outpatients

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for two exceptional  Registrants to join a team of dedicated professionals in the busy expanding Leicester General Hospital Outpatients Department. Full time and part time available.

We host and support a variety of specialties including Orthopaedics, Rheumatology, HPB, General Surgery, Renal &Transplant, Colorectal and Urology and many others.

Outpatients is a friendly, progressive and encouraging working environment, within very pleasant surroundings. The focus of all our effort is to continually enhance patient care delivery whilst supporting the multi-disciplinary specialties that use our services.

We are seeking to recruit  dynamic, compassionate, motivated and caring Nurses to join our friendly, forward thinking team.
You will be expected to maintain high standards of care with compassion and commitment.

You will need to effectively engage with your patients, peer groups, and service users in all elements of the role, leading by example and promoting a supportive and caring culture. This will require an inclusive, transparent, open approach to your role, whereby you are accountable to others and to go that extra mile when required.

You will be passionate, creating a culture of continuous improvement, where patient welfare is at the heart of all you do. 
We will offer excellent working conditions and a supportive culture promoting Continuous Professional Development.

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• Responsible for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating programmes of evidenced-based nursing care to a group of patients.
• Actively contribute to setting and maintaining high standards of quality nursing care.
• Act as a clinical and professional role model, assessing and supporting students and learners on placement within the clinical area.
• This role can involve frequent walking and standing for long periods of time. The post holder must have the physical capability to use manual handling equipment i.e. hoists, trolleys and wheelchairs.

You may be required to work in other designated locations of the Trust as well as your primary base. In particular, flexibility is required across four areas including Leicester Royal Infirmary, Glenfield Hospital, Loughborough NCSEM and Leicester General Hospital .If your initial location is one of these sites excess travel reimbursement would not apply for a permanent or temporary change of base.

NMC registration is essential. 

Working for our organisation

Our new strategy, developed with the support and feedback of colleagues, patients, and partners, is our compass for the next seven years (2023-2030).

We have four primary goals: 

• high-quality care for all, 
• being a great place to work, 
• partnerships for impact, and 
• research and education excellence

And we will embed health equality in all we do - taking active steps to reduce the avoidable differences in healthcare that some people face, working in partnership with communities.

Our strategy is underpinned by new values and we will work to ensure they are an everyday reality for all:

• we are compassionate,
• we are proud, 
• we are inclusive, and 
• we are one team 

This is an exciting moment as we look to the future with clarity on what we already do well and where we need to focus our energies to make an even bigger difference for the people we serve.

About the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust:

http://www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/aboutus/work-for-us/current-vacancies/